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Books by Eli Horowitz






The Pickle Index
A Novel
by Eli Horowitz
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Fsg Originals
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53581-0, ISBN: 0-374-53581-7

"“The Pickle Index is full of life and everything else―it’s rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking, and by heartbreaking I mean funny, and by funny I mean laugh-until-you’re-exhausted-and-leaking-and-hungry.” ―Miranda JulyZloty Kornblatt is the hapless ringmaster of an even more hapless circus troupe. But one fateful night, Zloty makes a mistake: he accidentally makes his audience laugh. Here on the outskirts of Burford―where both the cuisin ..."






The Silent History
A Novel
by Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett
Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2014 by Fsg Originals
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53447-9, ISBN: 0-374-53447-0

"A generation of children forced to live without words.  It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these chil ..."






The New World(Reprint)
A Novel
by Chris Adrian, Eli Horowitz
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Fsg Originals
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53629-9, ISBN: 0-374-53629-5

"Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seems to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite--rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether unique situation, to say the least: his body gone but his consciousness alive, his only compani ..."






The New World
A Novel
by Chris Adrian, Eli Horowitz
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-22181-2, ISBN: 0-374-22181-2

"An innovative story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory by two of our most creative literary mindsThe New World is the story of a marriage. Dr. Jane Cotton is a pediatric surgeon; her husband, Jim, is a humanist chaplain. They are about to celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary when Jim suddenly collapses and dies. When Jane arrives at the hospital, she is horrified to find that her husband's head has been removed from his ..."






The Pickle Index
by Eli Horowitz, Ian Huebert
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2015 by Sudden Oak Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9962608-0-0, ISBN: 0-9962608-0-3

"Knife throwers. Ominous fortresses. Angry mimes. Snack festivals. Morose contortionists. Guillotines. Smiling journalists. Lonely young women. Lingering hope. Incompetence. Desperation. Funny disguises. Plus two hardcover books in a gold-encrusted slipcase, twenty full-color illustrations, and an unprecedented feat of interactive book design. A hapless circus troupe tours the countryside of a downtrodden nation, trying to earn a living ..."






The Clock Without a Face
A Gus Twintig Mystery
by Mac Barnett, Eli Horowitz, Scott Teplin, Gus Twintig, Anna Sheffield, Adam Rex
Board Book, 30 Pages, Published 2010 by Mcsweeney's
ISBN-13: 978-1-934781-71-5, ISBN: 1-934781-71-1

"We’ve buried 12 emerald-studded numbers—each handmade and one of a kind—in 12 holes across the United States. These treasures will belong to whoever digs them up first. The question: Where to dig? The only path to the answer: Solve the riddles of The Clock Without a Face!THE BOOKThe call comes in from the shadowy Ternky Tower: 13 robberies, one on each floor, all the way up to the penthouse, where obnoxious importer Bevel Ternky has bee ..."






Everything You Know Is Pong
How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World
by Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by It Books
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-169051-8, ISBN: 0-06-169051-1

" A highly illustrated, beautifully designed tribute to ping pong, the world's most popular yet least appreciated sport—with tales from the table by Nick Hornby, Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Harold Evans, Jonathan Safran Foer, and others. Every sport claims to be the world's game—soccer, basketball, kabaddi. But none can match the global status acquired by modest, ubiquitous ping pong—the most popular yet misunderstood pastime in the ..."






Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't As Scary(Reprint)
by Ted Thompson, Eli Horowitz, Mcsweeney's Books Staff, Bruce Timm, 826 Nyc
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2009 by Delacorte Books For Young Readers
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73747-0, ISBN: 0-385-73747-5

"A collection of stories for wise young people and immature old people!A collection of stories for wise young people and immature old people, written by today’s best authors spinning new tales. Each story features fullcolor illustrations by artists including Barry Blitt, Lane Smith, David Heatley, and Marcel Dzama.The collection includes previously unpublished children’s stories from Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated), Nick ..."






Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .(1st Edition)
That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray ... Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out
by Nick Hornby, Neil Gaiman, Jon Scieszka, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ted Thompson, Lemony Snicket, Editors Of Mcsweeney's, Eli Horowitz, Mcsweeney's Books Staff, Louise Erdrich, Mcsweeney's Quarterly
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2005 by Mcsweeney's
ISBN-13: 978-1-932416-35-0, ISBN: 1-932416-35-8

"This title presents McSweeney's Miscellany. Interspersed with charts, graphs, and various crossword puzzles, the book features a span of today's best authors, who spin new tales ranging from the spooky to the strange. George Saunders tells the story of a father who takes caution to dangerous extremes in "Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband". In "ACES by Phone", a small boy finds a cellphone that lets him listen in on the t ..."






The Silent History(1st Edition)
by Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Horowitz Moffett
Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2014 by Jonathan Cape (The Random House Group Ltd.)
Kindle Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-224-09946-2, ISBN: 0-224-09946-9

"Sometime right around now, doctors, nurses and-most of all-parents begin to notice an epidemic spreading among newborn children, children who are physically normal in every way except that they do not speak and do not respond to speech. They don't learn to read, don't learn to write. Theories abound-maybe a popular antidepressant is the cause. Maybe these children, lacking the ability to use or comprehend language, have special skills o ..."






The Future Dictionary of America
A Book to Benefit Progressive Causes in the 2004 Elections Featuring Over 170 of America's Best Writers and Artists
by Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eggers Dave, Eli Horowitz, Staff Of Mcsweeney's, Diane Ackerman, Julia Alvarez, Jonathan Ames, Chris Adrian, David Amsden, Tom Barbash, Mcsweeney's Books, Eli And Howowitz, Michael Chabon, Signed By Multiple, Donald Antrim, Paul Auster, Charles Baxter, Aimee Bender, T. C. Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Peter Carey, Susan Choi, Billy Collins, Robert Coover, Michael Cunningham, Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Jim Shepard, Colson Whitehead, Marilynne Robinson, George Saunders, Marlon James, Aa.Vv
Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2004 by Mcsweeney's Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-932416-20-6, ISBN: 1-932416-20-X

"This book was conceived by Safran Foer Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. The book is an imagining of what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current president is a distant memory. The book is by turns funny, outraged, utopian, and dyspeptic. Over 150 w ..."






The New World
(Paperback)
by Chris Adrian, Eli Horowitz
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Granta Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78378-210-9, ISBN: 1-78378-210-2

"What does love feel like beyond death? Jane's husband Jim has just died - or not quite. For Jim, a mild-mannered chaplain at the hospital where Jane works as a surgeon, has left his body to Polaris, a shadowy cryonics organisation that promises to do away with mortality forever. Stranded in the realm of the living, reeling from the loss of her husband, Jane sets out to confront Polaris and to discover just where, exactly, his body is n ..."






The Silent History
by Eli Horowitz
Paperback, Published 2014 by Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-4434-3059-3, ISBN: 1-4434-3059-5






Everything You Know Is Pong
How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World
by Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz
272 Pages, Published 2010 by Harper Collins
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-201661-4, ISBN: 0-06-201661-X

"How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz ... and ping pong has recently spawned two new minotaur-esque archetypes in the form of actor Judah Friedlander and ... Judah Friedlander, a peerless stand-up comedian whose act has long contained boasts of being the “World Champion of the ..."






The Pickle Index
A Novel
by Eli Horowitz
224 Pages, Published 2015 by Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-71422-2, ISBN: 0-374-71422-3

"ALSO BY ELI HOROWITZ FICTION The Clock Without a Face (with Mac Barnett and Scott Teplin) The Silent History (with Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett) The New World (with Chris Adrian) NONFICTION Everything You Know Is Pong (with  ..."






The Silent History
by Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby
Published 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-5113-4195-0, ISBN: 1-5113-4195-5






The New World
A Novel
by Chris Adrian, Eli Horowitz
224 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-71222-8, ISBN: 0-374-71222-0

"Jane came back for the brochure and the DVD late that night, after staring for an hour at her phone, lying in the dark reading all the news in the world she couldn't care about, pausing intermittently to look at Brian's number in her Recents—she wouldn't do him the honor of making him an actual Contact—but resisting the compulsion to call and shout at him. At the kitchen table, she set the DVD aside and studied the brochure's cover ..."






The Silent History
by Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby
528 Pages, Published 2014 by Random House
ISBN-13: 978-1-4481-9126-0, ISBN: 1-4481-9126-2

"Some suspect they may have other abilities beyond our understanding. The children cannot tell you their story. Instead we rely on The Silent History, a collection of testimonies from those touched by the phenomenon."






The Silent History
A Novel
by Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby
528 Pages, Published 2014 by Fsg Originals
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-71094-1, ISBN: 0-374-71094-5

"A Novel Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett. THEODORE. GREENE. EL CERRITO, CA 2011. She. already looked half-dead on the drive to the hospital, but I wouldn't admit this until much later. I was pretty determined, I guess, to remain upbeat. In all the classes we'd taken to prepare for the birth, that was the one thing the in- structor kept repeating to the men in the room, the future fathers. “There's no magic involved,” she ..."






McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, No. 13(1st Edition)
An Assorted Sampler of North American Comic Drawings, Strips, and Illustrated Stories
by Chris Ware, Editors Of Mcsweeney's, Chris Ware Mcsweeney's, Eli Horowitz, Dave Eggers, Mcsweeney's Books, Ira Glass, Michael Chabon, Daniel Clowes, Gilbert Hernandez, Milt Gross, Ben Katchor, Chip Kidd, Adrian Tomine, Joe Matt, Julie Doucet, Chester Brown, Joe Sacco, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Art Spiegelman, Barb Bersche, Gary Panter, Jim Wooding, Robert Crumb
Hardcover, 263 Pages, Published 2004 by Mcsweeney's
ISBN-13: 978-1-932416-08-4, ISBN: 1-932416-08-0

"This issue is all comics.  It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: Lynda Berry, Mark Beyer, Chester Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Malachi B. Cohen, Daniel Clowes, David Collier, Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Julie Douchet, Debbie Drechsler, Bud Fisher, Ira Glass, Glen David Gold, Milt Gross, Philip Guston, David Heatley, Gilbert Hernan ..."



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