That writer in your life doesn’t need another Moleskin notebook . . . you got her one last year and she’ll be getting two more in her stocking. Not to worry, Tin House has put together a handsome collection of books for people just like her. With instruction on craft and insight into the lives and thought processes of writers, both contemporary and long-canonized, our series will edify and inspire. Plus, at $35.95 for all four, we’re exercising our nuclear option on Walmart’s loss-leading price war (Cue Music: “When Johnny comes Marching Home”). Take that, Sam. BUY NOW

The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House combines the best craft seminars in the history of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop with a variety of essays written by some of Tin House’s favorite authors, offering aspiring writers insight into the craft of writing.

“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.”—The Elegant Variation

The Story About the Story, edited by J. C. Hallman, feature lively discussions of great literature by some of the most prominent authors of all time. With over thirty essays written by authors as diverse as Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf to Cynthia Ozick and Salman Rushdie, this collection offers an invaluable course on literature.
“That’s the problem with this book: too many irresistible things.”—James Salter

Spanning from 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, The Journal of Jules Renard is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence by writers as varying as Somerset Maugham and Donald Barthelme, remains largely undiscovered in the United States.
“Directly, or indirectly, Renard is at the origin of contemporary literature.”—Jean-Paul Sartre

The World Within gathers twenty of the freshest, funniest, and most intriguing interviews in the history of Tin House. Featuring informal conversations with a veritable who’s-who of contemporary writers, these remarkable interviews offer insights into the creative process, writing craft, and the balance between a writer’s work and life.
“You, lucky reader, are a bystander at the greatest literary dinner party ever held.”—LA Weekly