Reading Rec: Tin House, Summer Issue

The summer reading issue of Tin House magazine (available in Barnes & Noble and others) has a number of lovely stories in it, including the creepy, electrifying "Bouncing," by Robert Travesio. An excerpt:

In the beginning it wasn't a big deal because he was just ten and only weirdos and freaks and really advanced kids killed their mothers at ten.

Also in this issue, an excerpt from Rick Moody's (Garden State and more) new novel The Diviners:

Melody Howell Forvath...has paid her dues with novels of international intrigue. She's published twenty-seven, the first twelve she wrote herself, up until Double Dutch (1973), the one about the twin spies operating as prostitutes in an Amsterdam hotel. They broke open a heroin case, etc. Then, begining with Envoy of Desire (1975), she hired a string of well-educated and presentable graduates of Smith and Wellesley to write the books according to her instructions. Here's how it she works. Melody goes to the magazine store and plucks from a well-thumbed Travel and Leisure a few promising locales. Then she sits down with whomever is the ghostwriter, and they hash out a thrilling story that has in it adultery, champagne, a hail of bullets, and a sexually independent woman. That's her stipulation, that the novels have sexually independent women in them. She's certainly not writing these books for men who only care about how big the warheads are.