Tin House Books
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
$17.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child s… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030396
- Language: English
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Signs, Music: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartStructured as a two-part sequence poem, Signs, Music explores the before and after of becoming a father with tenderness and care–the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the “hypothetical” and… [more below]
- Author: Antrobus, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030795
- Language: English
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Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California
$17.95 Add to cartIn 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor’s first literary idol, s
- Author: Specktor, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1951142624
- Language: English
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The Perseverance
$16.95 Add to cartIn the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance travels to Barcelona. In Gaudi’s Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoust
- Author: Antrobus, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 195114242X
- Language: English
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The Skunks
$17.95 Add to cartDear Skunks, I wrote. Then I got stuck. What was there to say about the skunks? Of course there was the smell–the spraying. Everyone’s mind jumped to the spraying. I often forgot about the spraying e… [more below]
- Author: Warnick, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030612
- Language: English
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Who Is Vera Kelly?
$15.95 Read moreNew York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She’s working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongu
- Series: A Vera Kelly Story #1
- Author: Knecht, Rosalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1947793012
- Language: English
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A Kind of Madness
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut
Finalist for Caine Prize For African Writing An Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of 2024 “Steady-handed and gut-punching. I’m in awe.”- Author: Okonkwo, Uche
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030388
- Language: English
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Bitter Orange
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them–Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1947793608
- Language: English
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The Wilds
$15.95 Read moreAt an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her environment with the assistanc… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1935639927
- Language: English
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When They Tell You to Be Good
$17.95 Add to cartAfter immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur’s family is rocked by the murder of Prince’s biological father in 1995. Behind the murder is a sordid family truth, scripted in the l
- Author: Shakur, Prince
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1953534937
- Language: English
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Magical Negro
$16.95 Add to cartMagical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems … [more below]
- Author: Parker, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1947793187
- Language: English
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Rabbit Cake
$18.00 Add to cartElvis 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 … [more below]
- Author: Hartnett, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 194104056X
- Language: English
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The Mobius Strip Club of Grief
$18.00 Add to cartThe M?ius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay–dearly, with both money and conscience–to watch the dead perform scandalous acts
- Author: Stone, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1941040853
- Language: English
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What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartWritten in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone’s What Is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, enviro
- Author: Stone, Bianca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1951142977
- Language: English
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A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings
$18.95 Add to cartDuring Will Betke-Brunswick’s sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. They only have ten more months together, which Will documents
- Author: Betke-Brunswick, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1953534457
- Language: English
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The Kissing Bug
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
National Book Foundation Science + Literature Selection Finalist for New American Voices Award and Lammy Award for Bisexual Nonfiction A TIME, NPR, Chicago Publ- Author: Hernández, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1953534198
- Language: English
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What Storm, What Thunder
$17.95 Add to cartAt the end of a long, sweltering day, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the cha
- Author: Chancy, Myriam Ja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1953534384
- Language: English
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The Dream Builders
$17.95 Add to cartAfter living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing
- Author: Mukherjee, Oindrila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1953534635
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House
$18.95 Read moreThe Writer’s Notebook II continues in the tradition of The Writer’s Notebook, featuring essays based on craft seminars from the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop, as well as a variety of craft essays… [more below]
- Author: Beha, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 1935639463
- Language: English
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
$14.95 Add to cartWhen the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1941040993
- Language: English
