2017 Tin House Winter Catalog

Tin House
winter 2017 catalog
Contents
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Swimming Lessons.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Turkish Delight.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Rabbit Cake.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Grow Your Own.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2
The Coyote’s Bicycle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3
Contact and Distribution Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
F I C T IO N
Nine Folds Make
a Paper Swan
A n ovel by RU TH G I LLI G A N
Three intertwining voices span
the twentieth century to tell the
unknown story of the Jews in
Ireland. A heartbreaking portrait of
what it means to belong, and how
storytelling can redeem us all.
A
JA N UA RY
t the start of the twentieth century, a young
girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania
in search of a better life in America, only to land
on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute
Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution
outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship
with a man consumed by the story of the love he
lost nearly two decades earlier. And in presentday London, an Irish journalist is forced to
confront her conflicting notions of identity and
family when her Jewish boyfriend asks her to
make a true leap of faith. These three arcs, which
span generations and intertwine in revelatory
ways, come together to tell the haunting story
of Ireland’s all-but-forgotten Jewish community.
Ruth Gilligan’s beautiful and heartbreaking Nine
Folds Make a Paper Swan explores the question of just
how far we will go to understand who we really
are, and to feel at home in the world.
$15.95 · Trade Paper · 5” x 7 3/4”
ISBN: 978-1-941040-49-2 · eBook: 978-1-941040-50-8
Rights: North American
RUTH GILLIGAN is a
PRO M OT I ON & P U B LI C I T Y
• Major review attention
• National print and broadcast interviews
• Outreach to history and Irish-interest journals and publications
• Advance reading copies
• Social media and online promotion
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novelist, journalist, and
academic from Ireland,
currently living in London.
A graduate of Cambridge,
Yale, East Anglia, and
Exeter Universities, she
now works as a Lecturer in
Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. She
contributes regular literary reviews to the Guardian,
LA Review of Books, Irish Independent, and Times
Literary Supplement. Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
is her American debut.
Praise for
“With Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan, Ruth Gilligan strikes out into ambitious literary
territory. Gilligan weaves history into the present moment with assurance and style.
Reminiscent of Téa Obreht, Nicole Krauss, and Maggie O’Farrell, Gilligan captures the
pulse of one of Ireland’s untold stories, and asks us to consider the age-old dictum that the
past is not dead, it is not even past. A wonderful new novel from a writer to look out for.”
, author of Let the Great World Spin
“The most famous literary Irishman of all time was a Jew, yet the stories of his community
have been seldom told. Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan blooms in that silence, with grace,
confidence, and vividness. I loved this beautifully written and elegantly managed novel and
was sorry when it ended.”
, author of The Thrill of It All
“Reading Ruth Gilligan’s Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan, I thought of Colum McCann’s
Zoli—from which the book fittingly takes its epigraph—and of Nicole Krauss’s The History
of Love; like those novels, it’s a rich and layered story of the complications, the mistakes,
and the heartbreaks of which a human life is made. But I thought mostly about Gilligan’s
characters—Ruth, Shem, and Aisling—and of the fascinating untold story—the story of
Jews in twentieth-century Ireland—given vivid expression by their interweaving narratives.
I haven’t read anything like it, and I was delighted to meet with their voices: voices that are
so real—sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating, sometimes devastated—and that linger in
the little streets imagined by the novel long after the story has been told.”
, author of Tender
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Praise for
Swimming Lessons
“I loved it and was caught up in it so thoroughly that it was my companion during every meal I ate
until I finished the book. I have also never felt so inclined to leave marginalia in a book as I did after
reading Swimming Lessons.”
—Kat ie Or p han ,
THE LAST BOOKSTORE
“When everything we read or watch these days seems to be a facsimile of something else, it’s inspiring
when a writer of Claire Fuller’s talent comes along to give us something fresh and original. In
Swimming Lessons, Fuller explores the all too familiar pull of duty, expectation, and guilt between a
family in emotional turmoil with an unsentimental eye, recalling some of the best work of the late,
great Richard Yates. Fuller’s debut novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, was nothing short of brilliant
and I’m here to tell you that she has officially avoided a sophomore slump with this gem of a book.
My only complaint is that I have to wait until February of 2017 to share this with the reading public.
Claire Fuller is my new favorite.”
—Javie r Ramir e z,
THE BOOK TABLE
“Claire Fuller is a master of the psychological mystery. In her most recent novel, Swimming Lessons, no
one is running around with a gun and no physical violence occurs. And yet damage happens. Families
are cut to the bone. And lingering wounds are left festering into adulthood. This is a work that
explores the very nature of forgiveness: How much should be forgiven before it becomes a burden, or
before it becomes a secret life inside you until you can’t even forgive yourself? It’s a deliciously written
story within a story that isn’t over until the last page has been turned.”
—Pam C ady,
UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE
“With Swimming Lessons Claire Fuller confirms her place as a writer of exceptional insight and warmth.
This tale of a marriage, of a family, and especially of children bearing the brunt of the fallout of betrayals
and abandonment, pulls you in and refuses to let you emerge from the lives of its characters until the
tale is finally told. Even then it takes time to shake the spell the book creates. A wonderful follow-up to
Our Endless Numbered Days that explores similar themes through an entirely different story, Swimming
Lessons will be a great book for fans of her first novel and for new fans alike.”
—A nm ir yam B udne r,
MAIN POINT BOOKS
“Claire Fuller’s Swimming Lessons is a beautifully told literary mystery that weaves together the lives
and loves of people defined by deceit and a questionable disappearance. Like her debut novel, Our
Endless Numbered Days, Fuller tiptoes brilliantly through delicate subjects.”
—Jo anne B e r g ,
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MYSTERY TO ME
F IC T ION
From the author of the awardwinning and word-of-mouth
sensation Our Endless Numbered
Days comes an exhilarating literary
mystery that will keep readers
guessing until the final page.
Swimming
Lessons
A n ove l by C L AI R E FU LLE R
I
ngrid Coleman writes letters to her husband,
Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but
instead of giving them to him, she hides each in
the thousands of books he has collected over the
years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she
disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind
her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her
husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan.
Twelve years after her disappearance, Gil
thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window,
but he’s getting older and this unlikely sighting
is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never
believed her mother drowned, returns home
to care for her father and to try to finally
discover what happened to Ingrid. But what
Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her
questions are hidden in the books that surround
her. Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming
Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light,
exposing the mysterious and complicated truths
of a passionate and troubled marriage.
F E B RUA RY
$25.95 · Hardcover · 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”
ISBN: 978-1-941040-51-5 · eBook: 978-1-941040-52-2
Rights: United States
A L S O AVAI L AB LE :
Our Endless Numbered Days: 978-1-941040-01-0 (paper)
NOV E M B E R
CLAIRE FULLER ’s debut
novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, was published
5” x 7 3/4” · # pages
by Tin House in 2015
ISBN:
and went on to win the
Desmond Elliott prize in the
eBook:
UK and was a finalist in the
Rights: TK
ABA Indies Choice Award,
an IndieNext pick, and chosen as a Goodreads Debut
Spotlight.
$ · Trade Paper
PRO MOT IO N & PU B LIC IT Y
• Major review attention
• National print and broadcast interviews
• Author appearances
• Advance reading copies
• Early outreach and giveaways on
Goodreads
• Reading group guide available
• Library marketing
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F I C T IO N
Turkish Delight
A n ovel by JA N WOLKE R S
Tran s l ated by S A M G A RR E T T
The story of a tempestuous love
affair—and the basis for Paul
Verhoeven’s Oscar-nominated film—
Wolkers’s controversial masterpiece
comes alive in a new translation.
U
pon its original publication in 1969, Turkish
Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its
graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an
explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was its
frank, colloquial style. The more straightlaced
critics condemned the book, but readers saw
a novel that reflected the way that they spoke,
thought, and felt.
M A RC H
$15.95 · Trade Paper · 5” x 7 3/4”
ISBN: 978-1-941040-47-8 · eBook: 978-1-941040-48-5
Rights: North American
PRO M OT I ON & P U B LI C I T Y
• Paperback roundups
Turkish Delight opens with a screed: a sculptor
in his studio, raging against the love he lost and
describing, in gory detail, the state of his life since
she left him. Our narrator alternates between
the story of his relationship with Olga—its
passion and affection, but also its obsessiveness
and abuse—and the dark days that followed, as
he attempts to recapture what they had when
they lived together, “happy as beasts.” The two
only reunite during Olga’s inexorable and tragic
decline into cancer—the chemo having taken her
hair and rotted her teeth, she will only eat the soft,
sweet Turkish Delight that her ex-lover brings to
her bedside.
In a new translation by Sam Garrett
(Herman Koch’s The Dinner), readers get a sense
of Wolkers’s revolutionary style and musical
prose, Turkish Delight’s particular balance of naked
impulse and profound longing.
• Academic marketing
JAN WOLKERS (1925-2007) is an author, sculptor, and
• Screenings of Paul Verhoeven’s film
one of the “Great Four” writers of Dutch literature.
With works like Kort Amerikaans (Crew Cut), Turks fruit
(Turkish Delight), Terug naar Oegstgeest (Return to
Oegstgeest), and De walgvogel (The Dodo) Jan Wolkers is among the most widely translated Dutch authors.
For his translations of close to forty novels and works
of nonfiction, SAM GARRETT (b. Harrisburg, PA, 1956)
has won prizes and appeared on short lists for some
of the world’s most prestigious literary awards.
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PRAISE FOR
“LIKE HENRY MILLER, WOLKERS WRITES WITH
A TREMENDOUS APPETITE FOR LIFE AND A
PAINTERLY APPROACH TO THE SENSUOUS.
HE IS A REFRESHING STYLIST.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“TUR KISH DELIGHT MAY HIT THE JACKPOT
HERE. IT IS RACY, GRAPHIC, FUNNY—
AND, ONCE READERS GET USED TO THE
A UTHOR’S EXPLICITLY SEXUAL STANCE,
HIGHLY ENTERTAINING.”
— P U B L I S H E R S W E E K LY
“F LAVORSOME FIRST-PERSON IDIOM,
NAILING DOWN SHARP IMAGES, CULTUREDETAILS, EMPHATIC ‘BIG MOMENTS’ . . . A
COMPACT EPIC OF P UNGENT EROTICISM AND
COLORFUL SCATOLOGY.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL
P R A IS E F O R RABBIT CAKE
“Rabbit Cake bursts with life, at once heartbreaking and heartwarming. Annie Hartnett has written
rich characters who walk off the page, bending, changing, and growing as time moves them past the
tragedy of their mother’s death. We get to see the world through a wholly individual little girl named
Elvis only the way a child can see the world—innocent, fresh, and open. The strangeness of this story
(think rabbit-shaped cake obsessions and Jesus statues made out of sea shells) rings so true because
of Hartnett’s grasp of the complicated balance of what makes characters human. The pages turn
themselves, and what a delight it was to keep up. Wonderful!”
—C O URTN EY FLY N N , Trident Booksellers and Cafe
E X CERP T
On my tenth birthday, six months before she sleepwalked into the river, Mom burnt the rabbit cake.
“Ten might not be a great year for you,” she said, squeezing my shoulder. I couldn’t tell if she was
kidding. The rabbit’s face and ears were charred black.
Mom always said we needed a cake to mark every new beginning and whether it was a birthday or
a first day of school or a new moon rabbits mean good luck to a new start. A rabbit cake is baked in
a two-sided aluminum mold, producing a three-dimensional cake. That’s the miracle of it: the cake
stands up on its own, on its four paws. If the frosting job is done right, it looks like we’re eating a real
cottontail, one that hasn’t even been skinned.
“Why don’t you bake another?” I asked. I didn’t want ten to be worse than nine.
“You like burnt toast,” Mom shrugged.
I was happy that after Mom iced it with a thick layer of white cream cheese fur, I couldn’t see the
blackened parts. Mom let me help decorate, and we used Red-Hot candy for the eyes. “He’s a New
Zealand White,” I announced. A New Zealand White is a medium-sized albino rabbit. They are from
Mexico, not New Zealand, and companies test makeup on them.
“My little research assistant,” Mom said when I showed her the pictures of the rabbits with sorecrusted eyes. Sometimes I wondered if Mom really liked animals, even though she had taught me a lot
about them and she was the one who brought home Boomer, our border collie, from the shelter. She used
to test animals in labs when she was in graduate school at Auburn University. Plus she always laughed
when she cut open a rabbit cake. She’d put a half jar of raspberry jam in the middle of the batter, so that
the cake oozed fake bunny blood all over the plate.
“What are you going to wish for?” Mom asked, as she added licorice whiskers to the New Zealand
White. Mom was big on wishing.
“Not sure,” I said. I was thinking about wishing for my sister to be nicer to me, but when the time
came to blow out the candles, I forgot to wish for anything.
F IC T ION
Tin House is proud to introduce
Annie Hartnett’s debut, Rabbit
Cake, a darkly comic novel about
a young girl named Elvis trying
to figure out her place in a world
without her mother.
Rabbit Cake
A n ove l by A N N I E H A RTN E T T
T
welve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for
the facts: she knows science proves yellow
is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male
giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows
that the naked mole rat is the longest-living
rodent. She knows she plans to grieve her mother,
who has recently drowned while sleepwalking,
for exactly eighteen months. But there are things
Elvis doesn’t yet know—like how to keep her sister
Lizzie from poisoning herself while sleep-eating
or why her father has started wearing her mother’s
silk bathrobe around the house.
Elvis investigates the strange circumstances
of her mother’s death and finds comfort, if not
answers, in the people (and animals) of Freedom,
Alabama. As hilarious a storyteller as she is
heartbreakingly honest, Elvis is a truly original
voice in this exploration of grief, family, and the
endurance of humor after loss.
M A RC H
$15.95 · Trade Paper · 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”
ANNIE HARTNETT was
the 2013–14 winner of
the Writer in Residence
Fellowship for the
Associates of the Boston
Public Library and has
received awards and
honors from the Bread
Loaf School of English, McSweeney’s, and Indiana
Review. Hartnett received her MFA in fiction from the
University of Alabama and an MA from Middlebury
College’s Bread Loaf School of English. She currently
teaches at Grub Street, an independent writing center
in Boston. Hartnett lives with her husband and their
beloved border collie in Providence, Rhode Island.
ISBN: 978-1-941040-56-0 · eBook: 978-1-941040-57-7
Rights: North American
PRO MOT IO N & PU B LIC IT Y
• Deluxe ARCs for booksellers
• Bookclub outreach
• Off-the-book-page features
• Early Goodreads giveaway
• Major review attention
• Social media and online promotion
• Select author appearances
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NO N F IC T IO N
Grow Your Own
by N IC HO LE G RA F, M I C AH S H E RM A N,
DAVI D STE I N, & LI Z CRAI N
APR I L
$26.95 · Trade Paper · 7 1/2” x 9”
Everything a home-grower needs
to understand, cultivate, and enjoy
cannabis.
A
s prohibition wanes, and cannabis
aficionados of all stripes come out from
the shadows, the old stereotypes are fading. The
benefits of cannabis are undeniable—medicinally,
sure, but also for stress, for creativity, and for
relaxation. And as any homebrewer, winemaker,
or backyard gardener can tell you, there’s a
particular joy in doing it yourself.
Whether you’re new to cannabis and need to
walk through the basics, or you’re an experienced
grower looking to hone your techniques, Grow Your
Own provides all the background and instruction
you need to set up a grow space, raise your plants,
and harvest your buds. It will teach you how to
choose a strain based on its flavors and effects,
how to manage insects and molds without the
use of pesticides, and how to mix just the right
soil. But Grow Your Own will also give you a primer
on the myriad ways to enjoy cannabis—from
carving an apple pipe to punching up your favorite
brownie recipe. With photography, visual aids,
and illustrations from Allen Crawford (Whitman
Illuminated), Grow Your Own makes cultivating
cannabis as accessible as it is rewarding.
ISBN: 978-1-941040-58-4 · eBook: 978-1-941040-59-1
Rights: World
PRO M OT I ON & P U B LI C I T Y
• Two-color illustrations and full color .
photographs
• National media interviews
• Print and online features
• Social media campaign
• Authors appearances
• BLAD s for wide mailing to chains and
indies
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DAVID STEIN, NICHOLE GRAF , and MICAH
SHERMAN are owners of Raven, a recreational
cannabis company in Washington state that prides
itself on producing environmentally and socially
responsible organic cannabis and cannabis-infused
products, and guaranteeing good vibes. LIZ CRAIN
is the author of Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull
and A Food Lover’s Guide to Portland.
Interview with NICHOLE GRAF, Creative Director at Raven
TIN HOU SE: You left the fashion world and moved across the country to do something entirely
different; what inspired that?
NICHOLE GRAF : I was lucky to have a job in ready-to-wear fashion that encouraged creativity,
innovation, and integrity of design. That said, I was hungry for a motivator that wasn’t entirely
commerce driven—I just didn’t know how to combine all of these things I was feeling into a next
move. When the opportunity to partner in Raven presented itself, it took me entirely by surprise.
I did so much initial research on what was happening on the West Coast in the cannabis world
and came to the conclusion that I just couldn’t pass up an opportunity to be a true pioneer in this
industry. To be one of the first businesses in what is essentially an entirely new industry still feels like
a once in a lifetime opportunity.
TH: It seems as though cannabis is moving into the specialty market. People are beginning to view
their cannabis like beer drinkers view craft beer or an oenophile views wine; do you think that’s true?
NG: I think the cannabis consumer base is diversifying, and that includes a customer that appreciates
a product that has more thought, intention, and resources invested in its production. Luckily, that
customer is also someone we hope our products speak to! We, and other brands like ours, feel very
strongly that this industry needs to work to protect small businesses that not only value innovation and
push to make interesting products but also operate their businesses responsibly and ethically. We feel
very protective of the integrity of this movement, and are trying in any way we can to be the other end
of the spectrum from the “I want to be Budweiser!” large-scale corporate cannabis operations.
TH: Why should a person grow their own cannabis?
NG: I think there are three reasons you should at least consider it.
1. Growing something, anything, is good for the soul. That sounds so cliché, but it’s so true.
Cannabis is especially rewarding, as it’s a beautiful plant to observe as it goes through its various
cycles of growth.
2. This is a brand-new thing for a vast majority of people. That includes the people employed at
cannabis shops. Growing a plant (or a few . . .) is a great way to learn so much more firsthand than
you can from a budtender.
3. Maybe you’re becoming a regular cannabis connoisseur, or maybe you’re considering becoming
one. Growing your own is a chance to try your hand at hard-to-find strains, magical nutrients that
make incredible claims, time-demanding specialized curing that would cost you dearly in a retail
shop—you get the idea. It’s also a cool thing to be able to offer someone your homegrown cannabis
while you’re entertaining.
N A R R AT I V E N O N F IC T IO N
The Coyote’s
Bicycle
by K I M B A LL TAYLO R
For readers of Jon Krakauer and
Susan Orlean, The Coyote’s Bicycle
brings to life a never-before-told
phenomenon at our southern border,
and the human drama of those who
would cross.
I
t wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned
bicycles were found along the dirt roads and
farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but
before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes
went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon.
But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball
Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers—
coyotes—and migrants could say how or why they’d
gotten there. And only through Taylor’s obsession
did another curious migratory pattern emerge:
the bicycles’ movement through the black market,
Hollywood, the prison system, and the militaryindustrial complex. This is the story of 7,000 bikes
that made an incredible journey and one young man
from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing,
built a small empire, and then vanished.
JA N UA RY
$16.95 · Trade Paper · 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”
ISBN: 978-1-941040-62-1 · eBook: 978-1-941040-21-8
Rights: World
P RO MOT I ON & P U B LI C I T Y
Taylor follows the trail of the border
bikes through some of society’s most powerful
institutions, and, with the help of an unlikely
source, he reconstructs the rise of one of
Tijuana’s most innovative coyotes. Touching on
immigration and globalization, as well as the
history of the US/Mexico border, The Coyote’s
Bicycle is at once an immersive investigation of an
outrageous occurrence and a true-crime, rags-toriches story.
• National print and broadcast interviews
• Paperback roundups
• Academic outreach
• Regional appearances
• Op-eds timed for publication
• Off-the-book-page features
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KIMBALL TAYLOR is a
long-time contributor to
Surfer Magazine and the
author of two books about
the sport: Return by Water:
Surf Stories and Adventures and Drive Fast and
Take Chances. Taylor holds
a BA in journalism, an MFA in Creative Writing, and is an
alumnus of The Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
PO E T RY
There Are More
Beautiful Things
Than Beyoncé
“This is a marvelous book . . . Morgan
Parker is a fearlessly forward and
forward-thinking literary star.”
— T E RR A N C E HAY E S
Poetr y by MO R G A N PA RKE R
T
F E B RUA RY
$14.95 · Paperback · 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”
ISBN: 978-1-941040-53-9 · eBook: 978-1-941040-54-6
Rights: North American
P RO M OT I ON & P U B LI C I T Y
• Major review attention
• National broadcast interviews
• Outreach to literary and poetry blogs and
journals
• Advance reading copies
• Launch event in New York
here Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses
political and pop-cultural references as a
framework to explore twenty-first-century black
American womanhood and its complexities:
performance, depression, isolation, exoticism,
racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave
between personal narrative and pop-cultural
criticism, examining and confronting modern
media, consumption, feminism, and Blackness.
This collection explores femininity and race in the
contemporary American political climate, folding in
references from jazz standards, visual art, personal
family history, and hip hop. The voice of this book
is a multifarious one: writing and rewriting bodies,
stories, and histories of the past, as well as uttering
and bearing witness to the truth of the present, and
actively probing toward a new self, an actualized self.
This is a book at the intersections of mythology and
sorrow, of vulnerability and posturing, of desire and
disgust, of tragedy and excellence.
MORGAN PARKER is the
author of Other People’s
Comfort Keeps Me Up At
Night, selected by Eileen
Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her work has
been featured in numerous
publications and anthologies, including Why I Am Not a Painter, The BreakBeat
Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and
Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart
Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow, Parker lives in
Brooklyn, New York. She works as an editor for Little A
and Day One, moonlights as poetry editor of The Offing,
and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading
series with Tommy Pico. With poet and performer Angel
Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective.
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CO M I N G SO O N
Winter Reading
W I N TE R 2017
Featuring new fiction from Antonya Nelson and Jim Shepard, essays by Steve
Almond and Sam Lipsyte, and poetry from Rae Armantrout and Gerald Stern.
$12.95 · Ships November 2016
ISBN: 978-1-942855-07-1 · eBook: 978-1-942855-08-8
Rehab
S P R I NG 2017
Kick the habit, rebuild that public image, and get back in fighting shape with
Tin House this spring. We’re coming at rehab from every possible angle with new
fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from established authors and New Voices alike.
$12.95 · Ships February 2017
ISBN: 978-1-942855-09-5 · eBook: 978-1-942855-10-1
TH I S YEAR ’ S AW AR D S
P U S HC A RT PR I Z E W I N N E R S:
L IZ Z I E M S K A , J E N N S HA P L A N D,
AN D
M E LI S SA B RO DE R
B E ST A M E R I C A N S H O RT STO R I E S:
A N DR E A B A R R E T T
AN D
SM I T H H E N DE R SON
B E ST A M E R I C A N S C I E NC E F I C T I ON
AN D
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