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Glaciers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
No One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Sickness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Hot Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Welcome to Paradise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Listeners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What Happened to Sophie Wilder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Parsifal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Misfit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Beside the Sea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The Writer’s Notebook II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Tin House Magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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Glaciers
A novel by Alexis M. Smith
Praise for Glaciers
“Line by line, in and out of time, this is a haunted, joyful, beautiful book—
a true gift.”—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
“A delicate and piercing first novel. Glaciers is like a vintage dress: charming,
understated and glinting with memories of loneliness and love.”
—Jane Mendelsohn, author of I Was Amelia Earhart and American Music
“Lyrical and luminous.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review and Pick of the Week
“Glaciers is a carefully precise and beautiful meditation on one young woman’s
restless heart. It resonates like a haunting postcard from someone else’s life.”
—Kevin Sampsell, author of A Common Pornography
176 pages • $10.95 • 5” x 7 1/4” • Trade Paper • January 2012 • Rights: World Rights (Italian Rights sold to Sperling) • 978-1-935639-20-6
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sabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things
cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which
work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier
who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of
deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young
girl in Alaska.
Glaciers unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel’s sense of history, memory, and
place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia
Woolf. For Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she
contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the
stories—the remnants—of those around her and she begins to tell her own story.
“An Alaska childhood and dreams of
faraway cities such as Amsterdam
inform Alexis M. Smith’s Glaciers, a
delicate debut novel set in Portland,
Oregon—“a slick fog of a city…drenched
in itself”—that reveals in short,
memory-soaked postcards of prose
a day in the life of twentysomething
library worker Isabel.”
—Lisa Shea, ELLE Magazine
About the Author: Alexis M. Smith grew up in Soldotna, Alaska,
and Seattle, Washington. She received an MFA in creative writing
from Goddard College. She has written for Tarpaulin Sky and
powells.com. She has a son and two cats, and they all live together
in a little apartment in Portland, Oregon.
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No One
A novel by Gwenaëlle Aubry
Translated by Trista Selous
Praise for No One
“Madness may, as Gwenaëlle Aubry writes, ‘name nothing, in reality,’ but her No
One definitively conjures its something—makes it tenderly felt in all its mystery,
horror, and sorrow. Standing between the hard reckoning of autobiography and
that which implores, melancholically, ‘to be novelized,’ No One pushes softly at
the limits of what life-writing can be. It is a work of remarkable understatement
and earned majesty, both.”—Maggie Nelson, author of Bluets and The Art of Cruelty
“Aubry’s sense of the human condition is both startling in its originality and sharp
in its beauty: the reader might find himself reading a book that is in fact reading
him back, in that what we learn . . . may apply to everyone searching for their
authentic self.”—Foreword Reviews
176 pages • $12.95 • 5” x 7 3/4 ” • Trade Paper • February 2012 • Rights: World English • 978-1-935639-22-0
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o One is the portrait of a man without a true self; a one-time distinguished lawyer and
member of the Paris bar whose diabling bipolar disorder turns him into a drifter and
frequent visitor of mental institutions. Moving between the voices of daughter and father,
this fictional memoir in dictionary form investigates the many men behind the masks, and
a unified portrait evolves. Letter by letter, Aubry gives shape and meaning to the father who
had long disappeared from her view. The whole is a beautifully written, vivid exploration of
a particular experience of mental illness and what it can reveal more generally about human
experience.
About the Author: Alberto Barrera Tyszka, poet and novelist, is
well known in Venezuela for his Sunday column in the newspaper
El Nacional. He cowrote the internationally bestselling and critically
acclaimed Hugo Chávez (2007), the first biography of the Venezuelan
president. The Sickness won the prestigious Premio Herralde—an
honor previously bestowed on Roberto Bolaño and Javier Marias,
among others—and was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign
Fiction Prize in 2011.
“Gwenaëlle Aubry’s No One is a
beautifully rendered and conceived
work. Structured like a duet, with
writing by her dead father and herself,
No One is about the search for a
wanderer father in the morass of his
unstable identity. It is an impassioned
novel, a psychoanalytic double
session, an examination of the limits of
language, and an act of filial devotion.”
—Lynne Tillman, author of
Someday This Will Be Funny
Margaret Jull Costa is the translator of many Portuguese, Spanish,
and Latin American writers, among them Javier Marías, Bernardo Atxaga, Fernando Pessoa,
and Eça de Queiroz. She has won many awards, most recently, the 2011 Oxford Weidenfeld
Translation Prize for José Saramago’s The Elephant’s Journey.
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The Sickness
A novel by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Praise for The Sickness
“This is a great book by a great writer.”—Chris Adrian, author of The Great Night
“Barrera Tyszka not only presents the would be medicine with confident realism,
creates sympathetic characters and writes gorgeous prose, he’s also a thinker and
peppers his narrative with meditations on illness, the complications of lying, and
the nature of physical pain.”—Shelf Awareness
“The Sickness is refreshingly clean in its storytelling yet very complex in
character.”—Times Literary Supplement
“Alberto Barrera Tyszka distills an eerie fable of identity from a hypochondriac’s
psycho-drama and a looming family crisis.”—The Independent
192 pages • $14.95 • 5” x 7 3/4 ” • Trade Paper • March 2012 • Rights: North American English • 978-1-935639-25-1
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r. Miranda is faced with a tragedy: his father has been diagnosed with termnal cancer
and has only a few weeks to live. He is also faced with a dilemma: How does one tell his
father he is dying?
Ernesto Duran, a patient of Dr. Miranda’s, is convinced he is sick. Ever since he
separated from his wife he has been presenting symptoms of an illness he believes is killing
him. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochonria. The fixation, in turn, has its own
creeping effect on Miranda’s secretary, who cannot, despite her best intentions, resist
compassion for the man.
A profound and philosophical exploration of the nature and meaning of illness, Alberto
Barrera Tyszka’s tender, refined novel interweaves the stories of four individuals as they try,
in their own way, to come to terms with sickness in all its ubiquity.
“Tyszka’s novel does not belabor the
moral ambiguities of illness but
draws them with clean, scalpel-sharp
precision.”—Booklist
About the Author: Alberto Barrera Tyszka, poet and novelist, is well known in Venezuela for
his Sunday column in the newspaper El Nacional. He cowrote the internationally bestselling
and critically acclaimed Hugo Chávez (2007), the first biography of the Venezuelan president.
The Sickness won the prestigious Premio Herralde—an honor previously bestowed on Roberto
Bolaño and Javier Marias, among others—and was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign
Fiction Prize in 2011.
Margaret Jull Costa is the translator of many Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin American writers,
among them Javier Marías, Bernardo Atxaga, Fernando Pessoa, and Eça de Queiroz. She
has won many awards, most recently, the 2011 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for José
Saramago’s The Elephant’s Journey.
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Hot Art
Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through
the Secret World of Stolen Art
by Joshua Knelman
Praise for Hot Art
“Knelman makes shrewd use of extensive interviews with figures on both side
of the law, allowing him to fully establish this hidden, high-stakes milieu . . .
Engaging expose of an underground world.”—Kirkus
“Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen
Art creeps up on you. Wickedly entertaining . . . Joshua Knelman’s in-depth
investigation of the international trade in stolen art may read like a TV crime novel,
but it delves deeper than that, deftly allowing art theft to serve as an extended
metaphor for exploitive, unregulated, free-for-all global capitalism.”
—Literary Review of Canada
“Knelman takes readers on a fascinating journey through a criminal underworld
that defies logic and confounds policing agencies from Los Angeles to Scotland
Yard . . . Knelman [is] a born storyteller . . . ”—Booklist
360 pages • $16.95 • 5” x 8 1/2 ” • Trade Paper • March 2012 • Rights: US • 978-1-935639-38-1
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ot Art traces Joshua Knelman’s five-year immersion in the shadowy world of art theft,
where he uncovers a devious game that takes him from Egypt to Los Angeles, New York
to London, and back again, through a web of deceit, violence, and corruption.
With a cool, knowing eye, Knelman delves into the lives of professionals such as Paul,
a brilliant working-class kid who charmed his way into a thriving career organizing art
thefts and running loot across the United Kingdom and beyond, and LAPD detective Donald
Hrycyk, one of the few special investigators worldwide who struggle to keep pace with
the evolving industry of stolen art. As he becomes more and more immersed in this world,
Knelman learns that art theft is no fringe activity—it has evolved into one of the largest
black markets in the world, which even Interpol and the FBI admit they cannot contain. In
this battle, the thieves are winning.
Sweeping and fast-paced, Hot Art is a major work of investigative journalism and a
thrilling joyride into a mysterious criminal world.
“Knelman is a brilliant narrative writer
and reporter who has assembled a
cast of oddball sleuths and crooks rich
enough to people five TV series. He
takes us inside a huge and growing
region of the global underworld. A
thrilling read.”
—Paul Steiger, editor in chief,
ProPublica
About the Author: Joshua Knelman is an award-winning journalist
and editor. He was a founding editorial member of The Walrus
magazine, and his writing has appeared in Toronto Life, Saturday
Night, the National Post, and The Globe and Mail. Also the coeditor
of Four Letter Word: New Love Letters, he lives in Toronto.
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Welcome to Paradise
A novel by Mahi Binebine
Translated by Lule Norman
Introduction by Anderson Tepper
Praise for Welcome to Paradise
“A masterful account of North Africans trying to sneak across the Straits of
Gibraltar into Spain . . . A fine debut: richly atmospheric and evocative, at once a
sharply narrated tale of suspense and a carefully constructed memoir of inner
grief.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Determinedly humanistic and profoundly touching.”—Shelf Awareness
“From often bleak material, Mahi Binebine has writeen a moving novel that is full
of life and light, aided by a fine translation from the French by Lulu Norman.”
—The Independent
“Binebine writes with humanity...His is a rare voice, genuine, subtle and wry, even
as it tells of private miseries and public suffering.”—Observer
176 pages • $14.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • April 2012 • Rights: North American English • 978-1-935639-27-5
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ahi Binebine’s courageous novel takes place in Morocco, where seven would-be
immigrants gather one night near the Strait of Gibraltar to wait for a signal from
a trafficker that it is time to cross. While they wait, their stories unfold: Kacem Judi is an
escapee from the civil war in Algeria; Nuara, with her newborn child, hopes to find her
husband, who hasn’t been in touch for months since moving to France; and Aziz, the young
narrator, and his cousin Reda are severed, in different ways, from their families in southern
Morocco. They all share a longing to escape and a readiness to risk everything. Welcome to
Paradise delves into a world that most readers know only from stories on the nightly news,
delivering a compassionate and striking portrait of human desperation.
“The suspense is compelling, and the
novel’s lyricism assails a dehumanising
anonymity. There is a Sisyphean epic
unfolding in the endless effort to reach
paradise and the repetitive cycle of
failure and defeat.”
—Guardian
About the Author: Mahi Binebine was born in Marrakech in 1959. He studied in Paris
and taught mathematics, until he became recognized first as a painter, then as a novelist.
Binebine lived in New York in the late 1990s, when his paintings began to be acquired by the
Guggenheim Museum.
Lulu Norman is a writer, translator, and editor who lives in London. She has translated Albert
Cossery, Mahmoud Darwish, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and the songs of Serge Gainsbourg and
written for national newspapers, the London Review of Books, and other literary journals. Her
translation of Mahi Binebine’s Welcome to Paradise (Granta, 2003) was shortlisted for the
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Her translation of Binebine’s The Stars of Sidi Moumen will
appear in 2012 (Granta, Tin House).
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The Listeners
A novel by Leni Zumas
Praise for The Listeners
“Leni Zumas’s visceral debut novel is a darkly funny and disturbing rager.
Weaving a dreamlike coming-of-age story with the melancholic tales of a rock
band self-destructing and a family’s loss, Zumas’s deft languge careens through
the lives of her characters.”—Kevin Sampsell, A Common Pornography
“Zumas has already proven herself a remarkable maker of short stories. Now
she has sustained and heightened the exhilaration of her writing in this striking
novel.”—Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask
“Zumas’s debut reads a bit like Faulkner. . . . Readers looking for gritty
experimental fiction in the manner of the late Gilbert Sorrentino will find The
Listeners whetting thier appetites for more from this promising new author.”
—Booklist
“Zumas’s fiction captures tactile experience much like vinyl captures sound: pure
and full. Her words are never simply words. They are imprints of beat, tone, color,
body, and texture.”—Flaunt
352 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • May 2012 • Rights: North American English • 978-1-935639-29-9
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ypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners is the story of a woman whose life is
shaped by tragedy. Thirtysomething Quinn is the survivor of a fractured and eccentric
childhood marred by the death of her younger sister. Twenty years later she is in the midst of a
decade-long slide down the other side of punk-rock stardom after her successful music career
was abruptly halted. Sassy and smart, tough but broken, Quinn is at loose ends. She develops
unique strategies for coping, but no matter what twisted tactic she conjures to keep her psyche
intact, the past won’t stay away. Leni Zumas portrays a world twisted on its axis by loss, in all its
grotesque beauty. From the first line the prose is glorious: pricklingly honest and hallucinatory,
a lucid dream world realized. Marking the debut of a major American writer, The Listeners is
about what lurks in the shadows and what happens when what’s lurking insists on being seen.
“My sister was extratalented in the odor
department. She could smell on a book
the reaction of the last person to read
it. Crouched on the library carpet, she
put her nose to the open Bible page:
The woman was worried about not
being good enough. And a dust-black
hardcover: The man got mad because
he didn’t understand this. And a fat
paperback with a flame-haired nurse
falling into the arms of a soldier: The
girl liked this story better than her life.”
About the Author: Leni Zumas’s story collection, Farewell
Navigator, was published by Open City in 2008. Her fiction has
appeared in numerous journals, including Quarterly West, Open
City, Salt Hill, New Orleans Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature
and Art, and New York Tyrant. Zumas now lives in Portland, Oregon,
where she teaches at Portland State University.
—from the book
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What Happened to
Sophie Wilder
A novel by Christopher R. Beha
Praise for What Happened to Sophie Wilder
“What Happened to Sophie Wilder is an old-fashioned literary novel in the very
best sense—thoughtful and intellectual, moving and well wrought. Like its
restless, yearning characters, it’s not afraid of the big questions—God and love,
work and love, friendship and love—and yet the solace this impressive debut
finds lies as deeply in the page as in the flesh or the spirit. Beha has managed to
produce a book that is satisfying for anyone who reads in order to live.”
—Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life
“Christopher R. Beha’s What Happened to Sophie Wilder manages, somehow, to
read both like an auspicious debut and a veteran achievement: it offers at once
the vivid, old-fashioned pleasures of a classic bildungsroman and a frighteningly
intelligent contemporary take on the ambitions and limits of storytelling and
faith. It’s a glass-and-steel penthouse on a foundation of oak, and the most
memorable first novel I’ve read in some time.”
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction
256 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • June 2012 • Rights: North American English • 978-1-935639-31-2
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harlie Blakeman is living in New York, on Washington Square, struggling to write his
second novel and floundering, when his college love, Sophie Wilder, returns to his life.
Sophie, too, is struggling, though Charlie isn’t sure why. They’ve spoken only rarely since
falling out a decade before. Now Sophie begins to tell Charlie the story of her life since then,
particularly the days she spent taking care of a dying man with his own terrible past and the
difficult decision he asked her to make. When Sophie once again abruptly disappears, Charlie
sets out to discover what happened to Sophie Wilder.
About the Author: Christopher R. Beha is an associate editor at
Harper’s Magazine. His essays and reviews have appeared in the
New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books, The
Believer, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He is the author of a memoir,
The Whole Five Feet, and the co-editor, with Joyce Carol Oates, of the
Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction.
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“What Happened to Sophie Wilder is
an imperishable gift of storytelling, a
novel built sturdily of wisdom, beauty,
and love. Christopher R. Beha writes
with Jamesian sophistication about
the enduring enigma of our inner lives,
and the result is a title character who
will dwell in you always.”
—William Giraldi, author of
Busy Monsters
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Parsifal
A novel by Jim Krusoe
Praise for Toward You
“Krusoe’s sure and subtle imaginings of such characters—yearning, isolated and
finally enigmatic—place him among the foremost creators of surreal Americana.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Krusoe’s surrealistically skewed, oddly affecting novel blurs the borders between
life and the afterlife, what’s real and what’s imagined, to highly entertaining
effect. . . A seriously strange, funny and affecting novel about imagining another
life while being stuck in this one.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A surreal meditation on the afterlife.”—Los Angeles Magazine
264 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • July 2012 • Rights: North American English • 978-1-935639-34-3
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here’s a war going on between the earth and the sky, but that doesn’t stop Parsifal,
a humble fountain-pen repairman, from revisiting the forest where he was raised
by his mom, a woman with a taste for Victoria’s Secret lingerie. On his journey, Parsifal,
a wise fool if there ever was one, encounters several librarians, a therapist, numerous
blind people, and Misty, a beautiful woman who may well be under the influence of
recreational drugs.
Head-spinning and hilarious, Parsifal is a book like no other about the entanglement of
the past and present, as well as the limitations of the future.
About the Author: Jim Krusoe is the author of the novels Girl
Factory, Erased, Toward You, and Iceland; two collections of stories,
Blood Lake and Abductions; as well as five books of poetry. He is
the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts and the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund. He teaches at Santa
Monica College and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.
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“Jim Krusoe is the mad scientist, the
man behind the curtain . . . Krusoe does
something magical with regular words
and regular life. His adjectives glow
with possibility; the term ‘fair-sized
brown dog’ takes on a sci-fi, suburban
backyard glow, like an alien presence
with a new language that sounds
enough like our own to make us strain
to uncover its meaning.”
—Los Angeles Times
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Misfit
A novel by Adam Braver
Praise for Misfit
“Misfit is amazing. Yes, we’re all familiar with the very publicly overexposed story
of Marilyn Monroe’s life and death. And no, I’m not going to say that this follows
in the path of anyone, or that Marilyn was herself a symbol, or that the book,
itself, speaks to some general, important metaphor about America. Instead, it’s
a book about the ability, the power of the author to penetrate the cell membrane,
to pierce the heart of his recognizable yet perplexingly vague subject, and in so
doing, to implicate the reader. It’s about how someone can be explored externally,
while also internally examined: a book about identity, privacy, and intimacy that
both exposes and conceals the subject. As, it seems to me, Marilyn acted while
retaining an unknowable essence, so that she was hugely projected upon yet
inhabited no life comprehensible to her.
–Ann Beattie, author of Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life
“Once again, Adam Braver turns his prodigious imagination and keen eye on an
iconic figure and breathes life into her. His Marylin will break your heart.”
—Ann Hood, author of The Red Thread
304 pages • $15.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • August 2012 • Rights: North American English • 978-1-935639-36-7
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elding facts with imagination, Misfit is centered around the last weekend of Marilyn
Monroe’s life, which, wanting to get away from the stress of a lawsuit filed against her by
Twentieth Century Fox, she spent at Frank Sinatra’s resort, the Cal Neva Lodge, in Lake Tahoe.
Using this weekend as a springboard, the novel explores moments throughout Monroe’s career
when, faced with various opportunities, she altered her persona—from her days as a child, to her
marriages with Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, to her studies with Lee Strasberg at the Actors
Studio, and, finally, to her role in the film Miller wrote for her, The Misfits.
About the Author: Adam Braver is the author of November
22, 1963, Mr. Lincoln’s Wars, Divine Sarah, and Crows Over the
Wheatfield. His work has appeared in journals such as Daedalus,
Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Water-Stone Review, West Branch,
and Post Road. He teaches at Roger Williams University in Bristol,
Rhode Island, and is a writer-in-residence at the NY State Summer
Writers Institute. He lives in Cranston, Rhode Island.
“She’s impatient for this weekend to
get underway. When Frank invited
her to the Cal Neva Lodge, his hotel
on the lake, he said, Sometimes you
need to get away, and there was no
argument there. He promised to look
out for her. Keep her protected from
those industry clowns who are suing
her and hassling her over her latest
movie. Frank will watch out for her
with no strings; he’s probably the only
person on earth whom she can trust
to provide her with such a sanctuary.
No press. No studio. No concerns. Just
her usual cabin. And the lake, which
always brings her peace.”
—from the book
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Beside the Sea
A novel by Véronique Olmi
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Praise for Beside the Sea
“This short novel has the trajectory of a classic tragedy with its taut time-span
and sense of inevitability, as we witness a woman destroyed by a tragic flaw . . .
The closing pages are heart-stopping and heartbreaking, yet one finishes this sad
tale not depressed but uplifted by its ability to enlarge the reader’s sympathies.”
—Chris Schueler, The Independent
“Prose . . . filled with sad poetic sense and blunt, bleak realities, compellingly
conveyed in Hunter’s colloquial English.”—Times Literary Supplement
“With the skill of a thriller writer, the mother-narrator propels you forward and,
as the awful climax approaches, compels you to profoundly question your own
life and relationships.”—Rosie Goldsmith, BBC
120 pages • $12.95 • 5” x 7 3/4” • Trade Paper • September 2012 • Rights: US • 978-1-935639-42-8
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single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink
hot chocolate, and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from an uncaring and
uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys.
Beside the Sea is a haunting and thought-provoking story about how a mother’s love for
her children can be more dangerous than the dark world she is seeking to keep at bay. It’s a
hypnotizing look at an unhinged mind and the cold society that produced it. With language
as captivating as the story that unfolds, Véronique Olmi creates an intimate portrait of
madness and despair that won’t soon be forgotten.
“This is a mesmerizing portrait ...
Ventriloquising for the mad, or rather
for those who are mad in this way, is
a risky business for novelists . . . To
capture this without alienating the
reader is quite an achievement, and
indeed valuable . . . it should be read.”
—Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
About the Author: Véronique Olmi was born in 1962 in Nice and now lives in Paris. She is a
highly acclaimed French dramatist and her twelve plays have won numerous awards. Bord de
Mer, published in 2001 and translated into all major European languages, was her first novel.
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The Writer’s Notebook II
Praise for the original Writer’s Notebook
“Much more entertaining is The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays From Tin
House, which is a pretty fair summary of where actual writing instruction is at
these days. Most of the essays originated in writing workshops run by the literary
magazine Tin House, and they include advice on sex writing by Steve Almond,
on what you can learn from Shakespeare by Margot Livesey, and on revision by
Chris Offutt, who compares the process to ‘draining the kitchen sink and seeing
what’s in there, which is usually a mess.’”—Charles McGrath, The New York Times
“The essays within The Writer’s Notebook each offer a fresh perspective
on various aspects of the writing craft...features an eclectic list of top shelf
contributions each bound together by a pragmatic approach to teaching the craft
of writing. . .If you can’t actually attend the workshops, this is probably your next
best bet.” —Mark Flanagan, About.com
350 pages • $18.95 • 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” • Trade Paper • November 2012 • Rights: North American English • 978-1-935639-46-6
T
he Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House combines thebest craft
seminars in the history of the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop with a
variety of essays written by some of Tin House’s favorite authors, offering aspiring
writers insight into the craft of writing.
Steve Almond, Andrea Barrett, Aimee Bender, Antonya Nelson, Karen Russell and
others break down elements of craft and share insights into the joys and pains of their own
writing. This cast of deeply respected poets and prose writers explore topics that vary from
writing dialogue to the dos and don’ts of writing about sex. With how-tos, close readings,
and personal anecdotes, The Writer’s Notebook offers future scribes advice and inspiration.
Contributors Include: Steve Almond, Andrea Barrett, Aimee Bender, Adam Braver, Anthony
Doerr, Ann Hood, Bret Anthony Johnston, Jim Krusoe, Antonya Nelson, Maggie Nelson, Ben
Percy, and Karen Russell.
“There is enough variety that you are
sure to find several kindred souls. The
Tin House editors do a great job of
gathering an eccentric mix of talented
writers and essay subjects.”
—Lincoln Michel, The Faster Times
“We get all manner of books on writing
around here and they tend to blend
together but the offerings from Tin
House always stand out. They’ve just
published The Writer’s Notebook: Craft
Essays from Tin House, which includes
terrifically useful essays from the likes
of Dorothy Allison, Rick Bass, Aimee
Bender, Jim Krusoe, Antonya Nelson
and Jim Shepard.”
—The Elegant Variation
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Tin House Magazine, 2012
Edited by Win McCormack, Rob Spillman, and Holly MacArthur
Summer Reading
on newsstands
June 1 — August 31, 2012
Science Fair
Summer Reading
Portland/Brooklyn
Winter Reading
#51: March 2012
#52: June 2012
#53: September 2012
#54: December 2012
Welcome to Tin House Science
Fair, an expo of experimentation, invention, and imagination
for all things mathematical,
astronomical, biological, and,
yes, literary. Check out Alan
Lightman’s display of aging cells
and irrational desires in “The
Temporary Universe,” and
witness Etgar Keret build a case
for alternate realities in
“Parallel Universes.” Analyze
Rachel Riederer’s research on
a rare neurological condition in
“Uncommon Sense,” and explore
poetry devoted to anatomy and
nanobots. All this and more!
Tin House’s summer reading
issue features new work from
Amy Hempel, Anne Carson,
Alice Munro, Kristen Iskandrian,
and Lee K. Abbott, along with
poetry from Sherman Alexie and
Adrienne Rich. The Lost & Found
department brings you Francine
Prose on Annie Ernaux’s A Man’s
Place, Paul Griffin on Raymond
Chandler’s The Lady in the Lake,
and loads of other summer treats.
This issue we dedicate to Portland
and Brooklyn writers, artists,
and musicians. From fiction by
Ursula K. Le Guin to provocative
pieces about unapologetic hipsters
and Middle Eastern enclaves in
Brooklyn, we’ve found work that
goes beyond the clichéd images of
single-speeds and sideburns. This
issue brings its readers poetry,
fiction, essays, art, and interviews
that showcase the unique
character of each place.
Snuggle up with a warm blanket
and a cup of hot cocoa and enjoy
some of the best contemporary
writing in the world. Take comfort
through the long, cold winter with
strong doses of literary prose,
poetry, and interviews from both
established writers and new
voices in this issue of Tin House
magazine.
For back issues and more, visit www.tinhouse.com
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BACKLIST
Agaat
A novel by Marlene van Nierkerk
Translated by Michiel Heyns
In the waning days of South
African apartheid, Milla, a
sixty-seven-year-old white
woman, is condemned to silence
by a creeping paralysis. As she
struggles to communicate with
her maidservant turned caretaker,
Agaat, the complicated history of
their relationship is revealed.
Best of Tin House
From the award-winning
literary magazine comes a
dazzling collection of stories by
contemporary masters of the
form.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-1-9
Call It What You Want
The Dart League King
Stories by Keith Lee Morris
A novel by Keith Lee Morris
In this stunning story collection
inhabited by dreams and
disappointments, good intentions
and small triumphs, Keith Lee
Morris chronicles the lives of men
lost in the liminal spaces between
adolescence and adulthood.
An intriguing tale of darts, drugs,
and death. Russell Harmon is the
self-proclaimed king of his smalltown Idaho dart league, but all is
not well in his kingdom.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-8-1
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9825030-8-9
$19.95 • TP • 978-0-9825030-9-6
Bright Before Us
A novel by Katie Arnold-Ratliff
Asta in the Wings
A novel by Jan Elizabeth Watson
A poignant and darkly funny story
about Asta Hewitt, a resourceful
seven-year-old who is shut off
from the outside world and
restricted to the company of a
delusional mother and a bookish
older brother.
Facing the prospect of fatherhood,
disillusioned by his fledgling
teaching career, and mourning
the loss of a former relationship,
Francis Mason is a prisoner of his
past mistakes.
$14.00 • • TP • 978-1-935639-07-7
The Children’s Day
A novel by Michiel Heyns
Introduction by A. L. Kennedy
A tender chronicle of a boy’s
coming of age in South Africa
during the apartheid years.
Do Me: Tales of Sex and
Love from Tin House
This hilarious and irreverent
collection gathers the smartest,
sexiest fiction and essays from
the award-winning journal Tin
House.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-0-5
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-6-6
$14.00 • TP • 978-0-9802436-1-1
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The Entire Predicament
Fantastic Women
Girls in Peril
Hooked
Stories by Lucy Corin
Introduction by Pam Houston
Edited by Rob Spillman
Introduction by Joy Williams
A novella by Karen Lee Boren
A novel by John Franc
This daring debut story collection
brilliantly dissects time, people,
places, and things, truly rendering
how it feels to be human.
Fantastic Women assembles
the work of eighteen inventive,
insightful women authors who
steep their narratives in a heady
potion of surrealism and macabre
black comedy.
This sparkling debut offers an
exquisitely rendered coming-ofage story about adolescent girls in
small-town Wisconsin who learn
that life’s real perils exist where
they never imagined: in their own
neighborhoods and homes.
John Franc’s masterful novel
explores sexual obsession, as
a group of male friends delve
further and further into the world
of brothels under the gleaming
surface of their cosmopolitan city.
$18.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-10-7
$10.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-2-6
$13.95 • TP • 978-09776989-8-1
Erased
A novel by Jim Krusoe
Abandonment, life, death, and,
oddly, Cleveland are explored in
the hilarious second installment
of Jim Krusoe’s trilogy about
resurrection.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-7-3
$15.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-16-9
Hot Springs
Food & Booze: A Tin House
Literary Feast
This collection celebrates seven
years of the dazzling writing and
delicious recipes of Tin House
magazine’s Readable Feast and
Blithe Spirits departments.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-7-1
Gravity’s Rainbow
Illustrated: Pictures
Showing What Happens
on Each Page of Thomas
Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s
Rainbow
A novel by Geoffrey Becker
by Zak Smith
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9820539-4-2
Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly
crazy, Bernice is determined to
reclaim the child she gave up for
adoption five years ago.
Artist Zak Smith has created
more than 750 pages of drawings,
paintings, and photos—each
inspired by a page of Thomas
Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
$39.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-9-5
The Hour: A Cocktail
Manifesto
Failing Grade: Oregon’s
Higher Education System
Goes Begging
Girl Factory
by David Sarasohn
A novel by Jim Krusoe
An informative collection of two
decades of witty, hard-hitting
articles by the Oregonian’s chief
political columnist, tracking
twenty years of cuts in funding by
the Oregon legislature for Oregon’s
higher educational institutions.
A yogurt parlor in a corner mall
somewhere in the city of St.
Nils contains a dark secret in
its basement, and Jonathan, the
mostly clueless clerk who works
there, just wants to fix things once
and for all.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-7-7
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-2-9
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by Bernard DeVoto
Introduction by Daniel Handler
One part celebration, one part
history, two parts manifesto, The
Hour is a comic and unequivocal
treatise on how and why we
drink—properly.
$16.95 • TC • 978-0-9825048-0-2
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A Householder’s Guide
to the Universe
by Harriett Fasenfast
In an era when go local, organic
food, and sustainability are on the
tip of everyone’s tongues, Harriet
Fasenfest takes up the banner
of progressive homemaking and
urban farming.
Human Resources
Stories by Josh Goldfaden
Humorous, energetic, and
inventive, these laugh-outloud stories push the limits of
absurdity with characters who
seek purpose and community and,
every now and again, find it.
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9776989-1-2
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-5-3
The Little General and
the Giant Snowflake
by Matthea Harvey
Illustrations by Elizabeth Zechel
In this compelling tale, a little
general, who heads an army
called the Realists, sees a giant
snowflake hovering in his garden
and realizes he is suffering from a
disease of the imagination.
Mosquito
Poems by Alex Lemon
This collection blends autobiography and poetry, bearing witness
to a young man’s journey through
serious illness and his emergence
into a world where eroticism, hope,
and wisdom allow him to see life in
a wholly new way.
$10.95 • TP • 978-0-9773127-4-0
$10.95 • TC • 978-0-9820539-1-1
How to Do Nothing
with Nobody All Alone
by Yourself
by Robert Paul Smith
Illustrated by Elinor Goulding
Smith
Introduction by Paul Collins
This is a book to free your kid
from video games for a few hours,
a handbook on the avoidance of
boredom, a primer on the uses of
solitude, a child’s declaration of
independence.
The Journal of
Jules Renard
by Jules Renard (1864–1910)
Translated and edited by Louise
Bogan
Spanning from 1887 to 1910,
Renard’s journal is a unique
autobiographical masterpiece
that, though celebrated abroad
and cited as a principle influence
by several renowned writers,
remains largely undiscovered in
the United States.
Mentor: A Memoir
by Tom Grimes
An honest and heartbreaking
exploration of the writing life and
the role of a very important teacher.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825048-9-5
November 22, 1963
A novel by Adam Braver
This gripping novel chronicles
the day of John F. Kennedy’s
assassination and explores
the intersection of stories and
memories and how they represent
and mythologize that defining
moment in history.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-2-8
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-7-4
$14.95 • TC • 978-0-9820539-5-9
Moby-Dick in Pictures:
One Drawing for Every Page
by Matt Kish
Matt Kish illustrated Herman
Melville’s classic, Moby-Dick,
by creating an image a day. By
layering images on top of existing
words and images, Kish has
crafted a visual masterpiece that
echoes the layers of meaning in
Melville’s narrative.
$39.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-13-8
$69.95 • TC with Slipcase 978-1-935639-12-1
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Ovenman
A novel by Jeff Parker
Introduction by Sam Lipsyte
Skateboarder, restaurant worker,
and punk rocker wannabe,
the antihero of Jeff Parker’s
uproariously funny debut novel
adds a new twist to the classic
coming-of-age story.
$14.00 • TP • 978-09776989-2-9
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Plotto: The Master
Book of All Plots
Rasskazy: New Fiction from
a New Russia
Satellite Convulsions:
Poems from Tin House
by William Wallace Cook
Edited by Mikhail Iossel and Jeff
Parker
Introduction by Francine Prose
Edited by Brenda Shaughnessy
and CJ Evans
A classic how-to manual,
William Wallace Cook’s Plotto
is one writer’s personal method,
painstakingly diagrammed for the
benefit of others.
$24.95 • TC • 978-1-935639-18-3
This anthology contains twentytwo stories full of vivid depictions
of the new Russia from its most
talented young writers.
This anthology celebrates
Tin House’s commitment
to publishing innovative
contemporary poetry by both
established and emerging poets.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9820539-0-4
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-9-8
Toward You
A novel by Jim Krusoe
Toward You completes Jim
Krusoe’s bittersweet trilogy about
the relationship between this
world and the next.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-1-5
We Did Porn
Possum Living: How to Live
Well Without a Job and
With (Almost) No Money
by Dolly Freed
In 1978, at the age of eighteen,
Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living,
chronicling the five years she
and her father lived off the land
on a half-acre lot outside of
Philadelphia.
River House
Saving Angelfish
A memoir by Sarahlee Lawrence
A novel by Michele Matheson
An exquisite blend of memoir and
nature writing, River House is a
young woman’s story of returning
home.
It’s Christmastime in Los Angeles
and Max is lying on the beach,
attempting to survive one day
without heroin. Her failure to
do so inspires the adventures of
a lifetime—a tour of the bizarre
underbelly that inhabits the world
of LA glitz.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-3-9
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9820539-3-5
A memoir by Zak Smith
Blending memoir with stunning
drawings and paintings, Zak
Smith (aka Zak Sabbath) takes
his readers from the New York art
scene to Los Angeles’s seedy, yet
colorful, underbelly—the world of
alt porn.
$49.95 • TC • 978-0-9820539-2-8
$24.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-8-0
$14.00 • TP • 978-0-9773127-6-4
Salvation
When I Forgot
A novel by Lucia Nevai
The Rajneesh Chronicles
by Win McCormack
A collection of in-depth
investigative articles covering
the time from the Rajneesh cult’s
arrival in Oregon in 1981 to its
dramatic disintegration at the end
of 1985.
A lovely coming-of-age story
about a budding scientist who
narrates her life from the moment
of birth with a rich awareness of
the natural world and her own
precarious spot in it.
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-3-6
$14.95 • TP • 978-0-9825691-9-1
$24.95 • TC • 978-0-9825048-7-1
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A novel by Elina Hirvonen
The Story About the Story:
Great Writers Explore
Great Literature
Edited by J. C. Hallman
The essays in The Story About the
Story feature lively discussions of
great literature by some of the most
prominent authors of all time.
An astonishingly assured debut
that explores the relationship
between a sister and a brother,
the past that they share, and the
memories that shape their lives
forever.
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-5-9
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9802436-9-7
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Wire to Wire
The Writer’s Notebook
A novel by Scott Sparling
This collection of craft essays
features the best craft seminars
from the Tin House Summer
Writer’s Workshop, offering
aspiring writers insight into the
craft of writing.
Wire to Wire assembles a cast of
train-hopping, drug-dealing, gluehuffing lowlifes, in a stunning
homage to one of our most
popular enduring genres—the
American crime novel.
$18.95 • TP • 978-0-9794198-1-2
$15.95 • TP • 978-1-935639-05-3
Great and Minor Moments
in Oregon History*
Edited by Dick Pintarich
Oregon historian Dick Pintarich
has collected an engaging and
fascinating array of essays and
anecdotes, exploring both the
familiar and the surprising in
Oregon history.
$24.95 • TP • 978-0-943511-00-9
$29.95 • TC • 978-0-9802436-0-4
*Published by New Oregon Publishers
Why Do Fools Fall in Love:
A Realist’s Guide
to Romance
by Anouchka Grose
In this nimble and original
exploration of love’s hidden
motivations and manifestations,
Anouchka Grose tries to get to the
heart of its hold over us.
Yes, Yes, Cherries
Stories by Mary Otis
Exploring the idea that truth lies
in life’s extremes, these partially
linked stories follow girls and
women who are outsiders and
find themselves in unusual
circumstances.
$12.95 • TP • 978-0-9776989-0-5
$15.95 • TCP• 978-1-935639-00-8
The World Within
This collection gathers twenty
of the freshest, funniest, and
most intriguing interviews in the
history of Tin House.
$16.95 • TP • 978-0-9776989-6-7
Your Wildest Dreams,
Within Reason
by Mike Sacks
Your Wildest Dreams, Within
Reason collects Mike Sacks’s
unique humor pieces (originally
published in the New Yorker,
Vanity Fair, Esquire, and
McSweeney’s) into one handsome,
convenient volume.
$13.95 • TP• 978-1-935639-02-2
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Australia and New Zealand
Scribo Group
Camilla Dorsch
18 Rodborough Road
Frenchs Forest
NSW/Australia
2086
Tel: 61 (0)2 9021 8179
Fax: 61 (0)2 9975 5599
Email: orders@scribo.com.au
Japan and Korea
Gilles Fauveau
2-3-25, 9F Kudanminami
Chiyoda-Ku
102-0074 Tokyo, Japan
Tel: 81 3 32640144
Fax: 81 3 32640440
Email: gillesfauveau@yahoo.com
South Africa
Nicky Stubbs
Book Promotions
108 De Waal Road
Diep River
Cape Town
7800
South Africa
27 21 707 5700
27 707 5794
Email: enquiries@bookpro.co.za
For all other territories, contact PGW:
Publishers Group Worldwide
International Sales Department
841 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003 USA
Elizabeth Shramko (for orders and general
inquiries)
International Sales Assistant
Tel: 212-614-7973
Fax: 212-614-7866
Email: elizabeth.shramko@
pg w.com
Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia,
Vietnam, Laos
June Poonpanich
476/3 Soi Ladprao 47
Wangtonglang
Bangkok 10310
Tel: 08-96603397, 02-5388318
Email: june.p@live.com
cover art:
Matthew Seely
Tin House Books
2012 Catalog
Design by
Diane Chonette
Printed by
Brown Printing
Portland, Oregon
www.brownprn.com
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