ELI HOROWITZ
Homecoming
The Silent History
McSweeney's
The Pickle Index
The Clock Without a Face
Everything You Know Is Pong
Gone in the Night
The New World
Harley Quinn & The Joker:
Sound Mind
The Death of Michael Kornblatt
The Final Chapters of
Richard Brown Winters
Crude Furnishings
Homecoming
with Micah Bloomberg
First the groundbreaking Gimlet podcast (Catherine Keener, Oscar Isaac, David Schwimmer, David Cross, Amy Sedaris), then the hit Amazon series (Julia Roberts, Janelle Monae, Bobby Cannavale, Stephan James, Chris Cooper, Sissy Spacek). Homecoming centers on a caseworker at an experimental facility, her ambitious supervisor, and a soldier eager to rejoin civilian life — presented in an enigmatic collage of telephone calls, therapy sessions, and overheard conversations.
The Silent History
with Russell Quinn, Matt Derby, & Kevin Moffett
A generation of children is born unable to create or comprehend language—a mystery that divides communities and raises questions about difference, rights, and power. Available for iPhone and iPad, and in print from FSG Originals.
Official selection of the Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab; winner of the inaugural Digital Americana Prize for Storytelling; winner of the Webby Award for Innovation.
Entirely revolutionary.
— Wired
A landmark project that illuminates a possible future for e-book novels.
— Los Angeles Times
Relentlessly thoughtful and new.
— Times (UK)
Exceptionally rich and frequently moving… A compelling story about difference, rights, and power.
— The Guardian (UK)
A sprawling, captivating work… A rare breath of excitement in a confused industry.
— Forbes
Exquisitely designed… The overall effect is one of total immersion.
— Boston Globe
This is the first — and definitive — Great American Digital Novel.
— The Webby Awards
A brilliant, haunting work of speculative fiction.
— South China Morning Post
The Silent History is both an experiment and a dramatic statement: what is possible when fiction and technology merge in a meaningful and innovative way?
— KQED
Brilliant… A vital work of art.
— Huffington Post
No interactive or electronic book in existence has ever come close to the creativity or the uniqueness or the altogether newness of The Silent History.
— TeleRead
Will change your reading experience forever.
— BuzzFeed
McSweeney's
Managing editor and publisher, 2002 - 2010
Edited and designed books and quarterlies for the legendary San Francisco publishing house. Honors include National Magazine Award, National Book Critics Circle, Best American Short Stories, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
The Pickle Index
In a glum nation ruled by a stylish dictator, all citizens are required by law to participate in the Pickle Index, a fermentation-based recipe exchange. From within this network, an incompetent circus attempts an unlikely uprising. Thrills, chills, spills, & dills!
Digital edition available for iPhone and iPad. Slipcased hardcover from Sudden Oak Books. Paperback from FSG Originals.
The Pickle Index is full of life and everything else — rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking and funny.
— Miranda July
The Pickle Index is a delight — the narration is laugh-out-loud funny. … A fun, strange romp through an absurdly cured world.
— Carmen Machado, NPR
A beautifully illustrated, hardcover set of two volumes … Proves that challenging, interactive, multi-platform storytelling can be compelling, immersive, and fun.
— Wired
One of the rarest and most exciting things that can happen in publishing: an original story, created with and for the multiple formats it lives in. … The Pickle Index shows us a path forward.
— The Bookseller
A Roald Dahl-via-Kafka-esque fable for the digital age.
— Slate
The Clock Without a Face
with Mac Barnett & Scott Teplin
Twelve jewel-encrusted numbers have been stolen off a priceless clock. Roy Dodge and Guz Twintig must solve an impossible crime — while exploring a very strange building. A book and a treasure hunt, with real emeralds buried in real dirt across the country.
Part The Westing Game, part Masquerade, this board book mystery lures readers in with its pentagonal shape, dry humor, and pages of intricate details.
— Publishers Weekly
A marvel.… Clock is a house-shaped board book chock full of mystery, humor and stunning artwork.
— San Francisco Chronicle
Enter the world's weirdest book. I'm sure there are other words for it, but the term 'weird' sticks out prominently in my mind. So too do the words 'wacky,' 'hypnotic,' 'awe-inspiring,' and 'potentially hazardous to your health.'
— School Library Journal
Everything You Know Is Pong
with Roger Bennett
An illustrated cultural history of table tennis — science and seduction, geopolitics and eternal life, plus tales from the table by Nick Hornby, Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Sloane Crosley, and Jonathan Safran Foer.
The New World
with Chris Adrian & Russell Quinn
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 companion a mysterious disembodied voice.
The New World is the story of a difficult marriage and the love and stuff that holds it together or nearly breaks it apart until death and perhaps even beyond. ...Something wonderful takes place right in front of us on almost every charming, idiosyncratic, thought-provoking page.
— NPR's All Things Considered
You have not read a truly digital book until you’ve read The New World. It is the most ambitious attempt I’ve seen at exploring a future where books lack physical form and are better for it. Adrian and Horowitz have achieved a true melding of form and content.
— Sarah Zhang, Gizmodo
Gone in the Night
A featured selection of the 2022 SXSW Film Festival. Starring Winona Ryder, Dermot Mulroney, John Gallagher Jr, Brianne Tju, and Owen Teague. Filmed in the redwoods of Northern California.
Twists galore, the torque of which surprises again and again. In an amusing feint at the frenzied finale, the filmmakers leap, with the help of Ryder’s nuance and aplomb, from one contemporary fable to another.
— New York Times
Harley Quinn & The Joker:
Sound Mind
Dr. Harleen Quinzel is fresh out of grad school — a new psychologist at Arkham Asylum determined to help the patients her colleagues have written off. But her dad is sick and in need of an expensive, life-saving operation she can’t afford. When she meets “Patient J," a magnetic criminal able to manipulate everyone but her, Harleen makes a fateful decision leading her and The Joker down a dangerous path that will change Gotham City and Bruce Wayne forever. Starring Christina Ricci, Billy Magnussen, Justin Hartley, Amy Sedaris, Elias Koteas, Stephen Root, Andre Royo, Fred Melamed, and Mary Holland.
The Final Chapters of Richard Brown Winters
A legendary, reclusive author… a desperate, despondent fan… and a mind-altering, interdimensional shrub.
A new kind of audio drama, starring Catherine Keener, Bobby Cannavale, Parker Posey, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Sam Waterston. Available now from Gimlet/Spotify.
Bio
Eli Horowitz is the co-creator of Homecoming, both the podcast and television series; The Silent History, a digital novel; The Clock Without a Face, a treasure-hunt mystery; and Everything You Know Is Pong, an illustrated cultural history of table tennis.
He was the managing editor and then publisher of McSweeney's; his design work has been honored by I.D., Print and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Previously, he wrote science trivia questions based on popular films of the 1990s and was briefly employed as an underskilled carpenter. He was born in Virginia and now lives in California.
He is not this guy or this guy or this rabbi.
Contact: eli@elihorowitz.net
Editing
I've worked with authors new and old, legendary and unknown, including Denis Johnson, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Salvador Plascencia, William Vollmann, Deb Olin Unferth, David Byrne, Adam Levin, James Hannaham, Ricky Jay, Robert Coover, Jessica Anthony, Lawrence Weschler, John Brandon, and Art Spiegelman.
My recent editing projects have included All Fours, by Miranda July, and Only Son, by Kevin Moffett — both National Book Award nominees.