NOVELS:
A Slight Trick of the Mind. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, April 2005

Undersurface. Sag Harbor: The Permanent Press, September 2002

The Cosmology of Bing. Sag Harbor: The Permanent Press, April 2001

Tideland. Chester Springs: Dufour Editions, Inc., August 2000

Branches. Sag Harbor: The Permanent Press, March 2000

Whompyjawed. Sag Harbor: The Permanent Press, September 1999

Whompyjawed. New York: Simon & Schuster, April 2001

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SHORT FICTION COLLECTIONS:
From The Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest.
Chester Springs: Dufour Editions, Inc., November 2001

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SPECIAL EDITIONS:

Branches (100 copies designed and bound by book artist Richard Minsky for his Bill of Rights series, with this limited edition representing The Fifth Amendment).
Sag Harbor: The Permanent Press, May 2000

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FOREIGN EDITIONS:

A Slight Trick of the Mind. Seoul: Minumsa, forthcoming

A Slight Trick of the Mind. Tokyo: Hisakawa, forthcoming

A Slight Trick of the Mind. Varese: Giano Editore, April 2005

A Slight Trick of the Mind. Amsterdam: Anthos, April 2005

From The Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest. Milano: Mondadori, forthcoming 2005

From The Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest. London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, January 2005

Tideland. Rome: Fazi Editore, forthcoming 2005

Tideland. Athens: Platypus Publications, forthcoming 2005

Tideland. Tokyo: Kadokawa, December 2004

Tideland. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, April 2003

Tideland. Amsterdam: Anthos, November 2002

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ANTHOLOGIES:

"Crows in the Hair". Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, February 2004.

"Dust Storm". M2M: New Literary Fiction. San Francisco: AttaGirl Press, May 2003. 57-83

"Aguas De Marco". Afterwords. San Francisco: Alyson Books, December 2001. 117-120

"excerpt from The Cosmology of Bing". Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millennium. Boston: Alyson Books, September 2000. 53-75

"Sifting Through". Best American Gay Fiction 2. New York: Little, Brown and Company, September 1997. 286-303

"The Snow Prince and the Bear". Happily Ever After. New York: Masquerade Books, Inc., September 1996. 99-106

"Playing Solitaire." Best Gay Erotica 1996. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1996. 84-95

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WHOMPYJAWED (1999)

"This belongs in a class with Catcher in the Rye, The Last Picture Show, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. It is by far the best book I've read in a while."
- John Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War

"Whompyjawed is the uproarious, barbed, and, yes, sensitive autobiographical account of the early life of Willy Keeler, football star."
- The Austin Chronicle

"Mitch Cullin has created with much skill the loneliness and emptiness of a small West Texas town, with a vivid sense of a place and time that stays with you long after you finish reading his novel."
- Horton Foote, The Young Man From Atlanta

"Elicits comparisons to such precursors as Larry McMurty, Erskine Caldwell, or even Sherwood Anderson."
- Publishers Weekly

"Mitch Cullin gives us a clear-eyed look at one of those strange and wonderful places where nothing moves on Main Street but the blowing dust when a football game is being played."
- Tony Hillerman

"(In Whompyjawed) adolescent life is often whompyjawed, or askew, and serves as a time for open doors and disappointments. Readers will not, however, be disappointed with this genuinely talented new writer, who has said that he strives to 'write more and talk less.'"
- Library Journal

"Funny, subtle and true. A wonderful first novel."
- Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior

"Whompyjawed is a delight, superbly crafted, rich with humor and hope."
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Cullin is an accomplished storyteller. His characters are bold and colorful. They care about the things we care about, share our faults and talk like us too.... Cullin seems to have the empathy of a great novelist." - Philadelphia Weekly (Kevin Canfield)

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BRANCHES (2000)

"(Cullin's) middle-aged cop rambles through his noirish cantos and never utters a false-sounding pharse."
- The New York Times Book Review (Jim Lewis)

"(Branches is a) quietly chilling short novel in verse.... Cullin is adept at blending the affable and the sinister.... It succeeds admirably."
- Publishers Weekly

"Hypnotic, gothic.... (Branches) stark allure is an indication that the author knows what he's doing."
- The Austin Chronicle (Clay Smith)

"A hybrid of Stephen King and Jim Thompson.... Cullin is capable of making his creepy protagonist (Sheriff Branches) resemble a Browning monologist."
- Booklist

"Mitch Cullin's Branches is inventive, original, and totally persuasive. There is a real writer at work here."
- Richard Bradford, Red Sky at Morning

"A chillingly effective novel-in-verse.... The main character's name is only one ironic touch in this tour of a twisted mind."
- Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

"Branches is a flat out fabulous read. It is a rigidly controlled, powerfully revealing book about the similarities and differences in the human soul."
- Max Evans, The Hi Lo Country

"(Sheriff Branches) emerges here as an avatar of brutal frontier justice.... Branches would send a shiver up Edgar Allen Poe's spine."
- Rain Taxi (Peter Ritter)

"A poem, especially a poem-as-novel, must contain more than fine language. It must tell a story in a compelling way, and here too Branches succeeds.... Mitch Cullin is to be congratulated for this hybrid achievement."
- The Houston Chronicle

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TIDELAND (2000)

"Beautifully written. Perfectly paced. Sad. Magical. Funny. Excellent woodworking.... images kept tumbling off the page and into my eyeline - beautifully, clearly, spookily."
- Terry Gilliam

"The prose is a stage set for Cullin's ventriloquism, which is brilliant and beautiful."
- The New York Times Book Review (Jim Lewis)

"Traces of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily and faint echoes of the horror film classic Psycho infuse this highly charged, eccentrically imaginative narrative by the author of Branches."
- Publisher's Weekly

"Cullin has a wonderful feel for the big and wide Texas landscape.... descriptions of how a child can happily lose herself in the long grass, wildflowers, and mesquite are lyrical without being precious.... His feel for the painful awkwardness and sensitivity of adolescence is worth the trip."
- Kirkus Reviews

"Cullin's latest novel, Tideland, is a full-fledged American Gothic horror show.... recalls the meditative ambivalence of Seamus Heaney's The Tollund Man."
- Rain Taxi (Peter Ritter)

"Cullin's dark and often humorous prose moves deftly across this bleak landscape, like wisps of smoke rising in the stark, serene quiet that follows a crash.... hope is in imagining that relief will arrive. And it does. Not for Jeliza-Rose but for readers who will be sustained by each page of this vivid novel."
- Exquisite Corpse (Kevin P.Q. Phelan)

"It has a vein of richly inventive, manic black humour running beneath its deadpan surface.... Tideland offers something unique - it is a haunting and disturbing novel with the power to enchant and sicken in equal measure."
- Waterstone's Books Quarterly, U.K. (Suzie Doore)

"Alice In Wonderland relocated to a world of bizarre characters, set against a sinister rural landscape.... **** stars."
- FHM, U.K.

"Throughout this excellent novel, the imagination and atmosphere inside and outside the mind of Jeliza is suitably wide and unbound. A book that is dark and delightful in equal measure."
- The Big Issue In The North, U.K. (Joe Shooman)

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THE COSMOLOGY OF BING (2001)

"(The Cosmology of Bing's) skillful handling of astronomical detail as both background material and metaphor gives rich thematic emphasis to Bing's fatalistic musings.... Cullin is savvy enough not to lecture the reader. He's written a relaxed, confident comic novel with just enough of an edge to keep it poking away at your memory."
- The New York Times Book Review (Bruce Allen)

"Mitch Cullin, with a fine Jamesian eye, sticks smartly to real character portraiture motivating a heartbreaking plot (a storytelling technique considered old fashioned in this modulized day and age) in order to handle contemporary issues - and gets closer to the bone than anybody else."
- Brian Bouldrey, The Genius of Desire

"Welcome surprises include Mitch Cullin's excerpt from The Cosmology of Bing, a bitter portrait of an aging, closeted astronomer struggling to maintain his tenure."
- Lambda Book Report (Kelly McQuain), review of Alyson's Gay Fiction at the Millennium

"Cullin dexterously blends coming to terms at midlife, coming out, and coming to adult understanding and, entirely credibly, avoids unhappy endings in a novel as satisfying as it is limpidly written."
- Booklist (Ray Olson)

"Heartbreaking yet wildly humorous, The Cosmology of Bing is (Cullin's) most mature and accomplished work to date."
- Insight Out Book Club

"Mitch Cullin's new novel, The Cosmology of Bing, is another coup for the young writer.... Cullin builds his characters with insight and finesse. Nick, the university student, comes alive on the pages as does Bing, the frustrated astronomy professor.... his characters are far more complex than their sexual beings."
- The Oklahoman (Dennie Hall)

"The cosmology of the title refers not to the darkness of a chaotic universe, but rather to the mysterious emotions - love, infatuation, frustration - that bind the characters together.... the relationships between the characters unfold in funny, believeable ways."
- Austin American Statesman (Alix Ohlin)

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FROM THE PLACE IN THE VALLEY DEEP IN THE FOREST (2001)

"A talented writer who's getting better with every book. Cullin admirers won't want to miss it."
- Kirkus

"After three gritty novels set in the vast, empty Texas countryside, Cullin ranges across the globe in this thoughtful collection of stories."
- Publishers Weekly

"If something of the experimentalist shows in Cullin's novels, his stories are old-fashioned in the best sense, reporting slices of life as the characters experience them in language that is economical yet richly evocative because of its precision. The teen characters will draw strong readers, who will get a taste of how good contemporary writing can be."
- Booklist (starred review)

"Cullin exemplifies the gay writer engaging the mainstream in eight slice-of-life stories whose settings dot the globe and whose protagonists, such as an Alaskan teenager arrested for assault and robbery and married 'Nam vets revisiting old combat zones, mostly grapple with issues other than sexual identity."
- Booklist's Top 10 Gay and Lesbian Books

"Cullin's tales leave the reader with just that - possibilities that one can reconcile past indiscretions with a worldview that provides hope, even if it is just a glimmer of light. In an era where many published stories occupy the poles of emotional paralysis or melodrama, it's refreshing to see Cullin seek a third route; he has created an understated collection that labors to make some sense out of existence."
- New Delta Review

"In each story here there is a power of belief - not of the overly redacted religious variety, but in the way that people will simply believe things: their mother isn't dead; their relatives care about them; war will end. Cullin's writing has been called "ventriloquial", but that makes it sound like some kind of cheap trick, and it is not. Every time, he focuses on the one character who can best tell of a larger tragedy. He finds the perfect narrator: that is not ventriloquism, but brave, highly imagined fiction writing."
- The Guardian, U.K. (Todd McEwen)

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UNDERSURFACE (2002)

"Taking a thread from his last novel The Cosmology of Bing, for his fifth, Cullin uses a true story and his true gift for grit to record the unraveling of a high-school English teacher as he moves a bit too inexorably from heterosexual family life to a gay nightlife, and ultimately to murder."
- Kirkus Review

"(UnderSurface is) a gritty morality play such as Herbert Selby might stage in the more crowded desert called Brooklyn."
- Booklist (Ray Olson)

"Cullin packs a lot of literary power into relatively few pages.... haunting and compelling. Perhaps best of all is Cullin's poetic but economical description of the plight of the homeless as John Connor enters their world in this memorable novel."
- Publishers Weekly

"Cullin's novel - illustrated with a series of correspondingly bleak collages by Peter I. Chang (streaky newspaper fragments, segmented body parts, smudges of black) - is mesmerizing.... a tricky, existential whodunit...."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)

"Cullin shows off his stuff - effectively groggy pace, frenzied psychological perspective, and gloomy characterization.... ultimately, (UnderSurface) calls to mind everyone's private potential, that "other self" lurking just beneath the layers of our outward appearance."
< - Bay Area Reporter (Jim Piechota)

"With a reputation for packing a plethora of themes and actions in a compact novel, Mitch Cullin provides fascinating reading in Undersurface.... Cullin's style is refreshing - different in subtle ways from that of any other modern writer."
- The Daily Oklahoman (Dennie Hall)