"I could be charming if I wanted to. There were basic tricks." --Who Is Vera Kelly?, out June 12
Reviewsbylola Thanks for reminding me I need to read this. ☺️ Such a great cover. 7y
"I could be charming if I wanted to. There were basic tricks." --Who Is Vera Kelly?, out June 12
Who likes free books? 😊
Tin House is inviting early readers to join our Galley Club in exchange for their honest feedback. Be the first to read Elliot Reed‘s A KEY TO TREEHOUSE LIVING, the debut novel Joy Williams calls “disorienting, weirdly wise, indescribably transparent, impossibly recognizable. Fun, too.”
To join, email your mailing address to galleyclub@tinhouse.com. Hurry, limited copies available! 🌲🏡📖💙
"THE CHANGELING, as no other book I have read, is illuminated by the spark of life, the life that wears a thousand skins." --Karen Russell (from the Introduction to the new 40th anniversary edition)
Thanks to bookseller Pete Mock of McIntyre's Books for the wonderful shout-out to WHO IS VERA KELLY? by Rosalie Knecht! "A smart, twisty tale for any lover of the spy genre. Move over Le Carre, Furst, and all others in the male-dominated field, you have company." ?
Grateful for this chance to honor a matchless storyteller and advocate, our neighbor and friend. URSULA K. LE GUIN: CONVERSATIONS ON WRITING with David Naimon is out today.
What's your favorite poetry book or essay collection that you‘ve read in the past year? Tell us in the comments for a chance to win not one but TWO new releases that might become your new favorites: THE MÖBIUS STRIP CLUB OF GRIEF by the inimitable Bianca Stone, and UP UP, DOWN DOWN by Tin House Magazine's very own managing editor, Cheston Knapp.
Winners will be randomly selected Friday, 3/23 at 5pm EST!
Tin House is inviting early readers to join our Galley Club in exchange for their honest feedback and reviews! Be the first to read Rosalie Knecht's WHO IS VERA KELLY?, the book Amy Stewart is calling "the twisty, literary, woman-driven spy novel you‘ve always wanted to read . . . Dazzling."
To join the Galley Club for WHO IS VERA KELLY?, email your physical mailing address to galleyclub@tinhouse.com. Hurry, limited copies available!
"I remember thinking how beautiful it was under the water, and that I must tell everyone about it, but then realising quite calmly that I wouldn't be able to because I was drowning and would never see anyone again." --SWIMMING LESSONS by Claire Fuller, out now in paperback.
Tin House is inviting early readers to join our Galley Club! Be the first to read Joe Dunthorne's THE ADULTERANTS, a piercingly funny coming-of-age story about a protagonist who's a little too old to be coming of age. Tea Obreht calls THE ADULTERANTS "dark, beautifully wry, and side-splittingly excruciating . . . a triumph of voice and vision." To join Galley Club, email your mailing address to galleyclub@tinhouse.com. Limited copies available!
"The twisty, literary, woman-driven spy novel you've always wanted to read. Dazzling." --Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits With Gun
WHO IS VERA KELLY? by Rosalie Knecht. Summer 2018. #whoisverakelly
This book has our #vote. Happy pub day to THE SENATOR'S CHILDREN by Nicholas Montemarano, now available wherever fine books are sold!
"Engrossing, brilliantly structured . . . By asking whether forgiveness can conquer blame, and whether we might even be able to treat strangers like family, THE SENATOR'S CHILDREN feels like exactly the kind of novel we need." --Eric Puchner
Tin House authors in the wild: Karen Shepard (KISS ME SOMEONE) and Annie Hartnett (RABBIT CAKE) met for the first time last night as co-readers at the Point Street Reading Series in Providence, RI!
Do you love books? Free books? Free books before publication?
Tin House is inviting early readers to join our Galley Club! Be the first to read Nicholas Montemarano‘s THE SENATOR‘S CHILDREN, a captivating new novel about forgiveness, second chances, and the human costs of politics.
To join Galley Club for THE SENATOR‘S CHILDREN, email your physical mailing address to galleyclub@tinhouse.com. (Hurry, limited copies available!)
Happy pub day to Jeannie Vanasco and her debut memoir, THE GLASS EYE! "Stunning" (Entertainment Weekly). "Wildly innovative" (New York Magazine). "Powerful, haunting" (NYLON). "Intense and unforgettable" (Shelf Awareness). We can't wait to hear what you think.
Preorder THE GLASS EYE by Jeannie Vanasco and get a signed bookplate! Just send proof of purchase (a receipt or screenshot does the trick) to tinhousebooks@tinhouse.com by 10/3. 🍁
THE GLASS EYE is one of Poets & Writers' Five Best Nonfiction Debuts of 2017, a NYLON Fall Pick, a Publishers Weekly Big Indie Book of Fall, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers selection, and maybe your new favorite memoir. We can't wait to hear what you think.
Publication Day: A Love Story. Today brings not one but TWO Shepards—behold Karen Shepard's KISS ME SOMEONE and Jim Shepard's THE TUNNEL AT THE END OF THE LIGHT, now available wherever books are sold! ❤️📖📖
"And my dad, who was somehow still dead, did what he sometimes did--died again, seconds after my waking." --Jeannie Vanasco, THE GLASS EYE (out 10/3)
Litsians! Do you love free books?
Tin House is inviting early readers to join our Galley Club. Be the first to read Jeannie Vanasco‘s THE GLASS EYE, a stunning exploration of love, sanity, grief, and recovery.
To join Galley Club for THE GLASS EYE, email your physical mailing address to galleyclub@tinhouse.com. (Hurry, limited copies available!)
We're blown away by the overwhelming response to DYING: A MEMOIR by Cory Taylor. If you're finding "Out of Stock" notices at online retailers, we encourage you to head over to your local bookstore. You should find copies right there on the shelves, and more are on the way.
pickDYING: A MEMOIR by Cory Taylor, out August 1, in today's New York Times: "Bracing and beautiful . . . Every human should read it."
"I swallow bold colors because
so what if I have more regrets
than birthdays I am old"
--Morgan Parker, "So What"
Happy pub day to @NoleyReid and PRETEND WE ARE LOVELY!
"In magnetic prose, Reid offers up a scrumptious novel about the things we use to save our fractured relationships." --O, the Oprah Magazine
“I hid the doughnuts in the basement toy chest because the girls are too big for sock puppets and building blocks. Pink box. Glaze flaking overtop, gooed to the box on their bottoms. One cinnamon cake, one cruller, sour cream sugared, custard squishing out of chocolate. It‘s not impossible to taste glaze on the finger.”
Hungry yet? Noley Reid's PRETEND WE ARE LOVELY is out next week, in all its deliciousness.
"In my 20s I was reading passionately and devotedly, and trying to write fiction, but I wasn‘t really connecting the two activities. . . . I began to think more about how how we, as writers, can learn more about our craft from reading and how we can learn to build a bridge between our reading and our own efforts when we sit down.” --Margot Livesey, speaking with The Boston Globe about THE HIDDEN MACHINERY
(Portrait by David Wilson)
"The world goes crooked. Objects become sentient. The air rings with disembodied voices. I write: 'I am subject to enchantments.'"
???Happy pub week to THE HIDDEN MACHINERY: ESSAYS ON WRITING by bestselling author and beloved teacher Margot Livesey!
"Margot Livesey's essays are not only helpful and informative (about writing and great writers—Austen! Woolf! Flaubert!) but every witty, elegant sentence is a pure pleasure to read.” —Francine Prose
"The Wilds kept cats, lizards, and ferrets. Rabbits, hamsters, turtles, and snakes. A bubble of musky, ammoniac air enveloped their home like a force field, and the second you dared step through it you felt dizzy; a hundred arrows whistled around your ears."
pickAnnie Hartnett's RABBIT CAKE makes Chicago Review of Books Best Books of 2017!
"With its dark humor, memorable voice, and quirky family focus, RABBIT CAKE is a perfect read for the dog days of summer, one that can provide equal enjoyment for the most avid members of the literati and casual readers alike."
—Aram Mrjoian
pick"I just finished this amazing book that I‘m becoming a total evangelist for. It‘s not a YA book, but it‘s called Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett. It‘s so good.(...) I kind of have a book hangover, like I‘m scared to start anything else because I think it‘s all going to suffer. The voice is so, so good, and the story is so unusual. I hope it gets a whole new audience this summer, because people should be reading it … It‘s special." --Sarah Dessen
"I pretended not to be there on my back in the long grasses, feeling tufts of clover flowers tucking up into the soft backs of my knees. This was when I was younger—maybe ten, even twelve. Those summers, those springs and falls too, I lay amid the weeds with the crickets and hoppy June bugs, forcing myself to keep still though all I wanted was to scratch." --PRETEND WE ARE LOVLEY, by Noley Reid
"If things were as they should be, another kid would be telling you how to do these things, or you‘d be telling another kid. But since I‘m the only kid left around who knows how to do these things—I‘m forty-two years old, but about these things I‘m still a kid—I guess it‘s up to me."
—Robert Paul Smith, HOW TO DO NOTHING WITH NOBODY ALL ALONE BY YOURSELF
What was your favorite childhood pastime? Tell us in the comments for a chance to win the brand-new edition of the timeless guidebook HOW TO DO NOTHING WITH NOBODY ALL ALONE BY YOURSELF!
"The house is so quiet. I start pulling everything out on the counters. The muffin mix. I grab the bowl Ma had for the waffles and her swirly spring whisk, I crack a carton of eggs, being sure to scoop out any bits of shell, and start beating up the batter with one hand. I beat the corn mix, love that scrapey sound of the metal whisk against the clumps of corn and the side of the bowl, love sounding like Ma."
Congratulations to Barbara Gowdy: LITTLE SISTER is a PEOPLE pick!
"In this inventive novel, a woman troubled by guilt is transported into the mind of another woman--during thunderstorms!--and experiences flashes of self-illumination." --People Magazine
Happy birthday to Walt Whitman!
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / and what I assume you shall assume, / for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." (Illustration by Allen Crawford from WHITMAN ILLUMINATED.)
Morning.
Happy pub day to LITTLE SISTER by Barbara Gowdy!
"Electrifying" (Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review). "A gem" (BBC News). "A thrilling, captivating exploration of guilt, the female psyche, and the bonds of womanhood" (Publishers Weekly).
pickLacy Johnson's THE OTHER SIDE makes PW's "10 Best True Crime Books."
"Here‘s an unforgettable book told from a perspective too-little featured in true crime: that of the victim. . . . smartly told, enthralling, emotionally ruinous, and all-too-real."
Look what just arrived at the office: PRETEND WE ARE LOVELY by Noley Reid, out July 18. We can't wait to share this one with you!!
First and Second Editions! ❤️
Happy pub day to NATURE POEM by Tommy Pico!
"A thrilling punk rock epic that is a tour of all we know and can't admit to. Pico is a poet of canny instincts, his lyric is somehow so casual and so so serious at the same time. He is determined to blow your mind apart, and . . . you should let him.” —Alexander Chee
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Which bookstore are you visiting today??
(Signage spotted outside the wonderful Another Read Through here in Portland.) #BookstoreDay
Can you find the rabbit? 🐰🎂@foldedpagesdistillery highlights Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett! What are you reading?
Do you love books? Free books? Free books months before publication?
Tin House is inviting early readers to join our Galley Club! Be the first to read PRETEND WE ARE LOVELY by Noley Reid, a sharp and darkly funny story of family secrets, hunger, and forgiveness.
To join Galley Club for PRETEND WE ARE LOVELY, email your physical mailing address to galleyclub@tinhouse.com. (Hurry, limited copies available!)
pickWin everything you could want for your next book club meeting: author Claire Fuller‘s favorite tea and cookies, beautiful bookplates hand-designed and signed by Claire, Swimming Lessons discussion questions, and a Skype date with the author herself.
http://lithub.com/win-book-club-in-a-box/
pickAnnie Hartnett and Rachel Kaplan at Avid! And Thumper the bunny! ❤️🐰🎂
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