The Tin House Writer’s Series includes the best books on writing craft and the writing life. The Writer’s Notebook, The Story About the Story, The World Within, and The Journal of Jules Renard are included in this new collection.

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