Tin House Bookshelf

From Tin House contributing editor Rick Moody comes a sprawling, wildly entertaining satire of LA, revolving around the making of a thirteen-part miniseries about the history of water-seekers. More fun than you can shake a stick at. Tin House magazine (read more)

George Saunders consistently pulls off the remarkable in his work: he crafts wildly inventive, often hilarious stories that slice deep into a reader?s mind and heart. In this short illustrated novel, Saunders has written a playful fable for adults that manages to be substantive and timely while never losing Saunders?s brilliant, bizarre touch. Tin House magazine (read more)

Louise Erdrich never ceases to amaze readers with her elegant prose and her penetrating insight into the human psyche. In her twelfth novel, ,i>The Painted Drum, she crafts an intricate story about the overlapping lives in a small New Hampshire town and the reverberating effects of a family?s tragedy. Tin House magazine (read more)

In her memoir, Didion presents us with an intimate, well-written account of the recent death of the author's longtime husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. Interwoven with the sometimes stream-of-consciousness musings on their lives together as writers, lovers, and parents is the saga of their only child's degeneration from a mysterious illness. In the book, Quintana Roo, whom they adopted when she was three days old, is a newlywed in her thirties battling with a strange neurological disorder that struck out of nowhere. The book takes place in Los Angeles and New York where Didion, without a moment to mourn her husband's passing, deals with the recovery and relapse of her daughter. Tin House magazine (read more)

This book, more than anything, about men: at least one lost father and his replacements, the group of locals at Moehringer's beloved Long Island neighborhood bar, Publicans. As a hapless young man and would-be writer, Moehringer endlessly romanticizes Publicans; as an older man, he sees some of the toll life in a pub can take. It's not a cautionary tale, anymore than it is a triumphant one about a poor boy's rise through Yale and the New York Times, though both elements are there. It's a fond but clear-eyed reminiscence of a way of life that ends and yet renews itself again with the next crew. Tin House magazine (read more)

The first of two books (the sequel, The Closed Circle, has just been published) traces the adolescence of a small group in Birmingham, England, amid IRA bombings and Tory-Labour disputes, the boys' own first forays into sex and their parents' extramarital affairs, their private school intrigues, and the constant scandals of the school paper. Funny, panoramic, with every character, however brief, beautifully drawn. Tin House magazine (read more)

Joyce Carol Oates continues to chronicle this culture's abiding fascination with violence in I Am No One You Know, her latest collection of stories, yet each story approaches the subject in such inventively variegated ways and through such multifarious characters that the reader sees something unique each time. The delineation of character in her stories is so intense, so intimate, and so accurate that you forget you're reading a fiction. Full of electric language, careening with life and vitality, here are stories with all the weight of existence, stories of the ways in which we fail even in our successes, stories that offer, ultimately, the deepest human consolation. Tin House magazine (read more)

This novel is not the breezy, young-man-discovers-himself tale it might appear to be at first glance. Never losing its heart or its sense of humor, Indecision is a novel that deftly explores the malaise that plagues so many of this country?s privileged twenty-somethings. Tin House magazine (read more)

One of the great pieces novels of the twentieth century, rescued by Lydia Davis?s mesmerizing new translation. Sentence by sentence, it will change your life. Tin House magazine (read more)