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Not Heaven, Somewhere Else
by Rebecca Brown
Short stories. 80 pages. Paperback. October 2018
Cover art by Robyn O’Neil
If heaven is somewhere, it isn’t with us, but somewhere we want to get — a state, a place, a turning to home. Novel- and essayist Rebecca Brown’s thirteenth book is narrative cycle that revamps old fairy tales, movies, and myths, as it leads the reader from darkness to light, from harshness to love, from where we are to where we might go. “Aside from ‘genius,'” writes Paul Constant in the Seattle Review of Books “the other word I would use to describe Rebecca Brown is ‘elemental’…. It feels dangerous and exciting, like if she puts her big brain to it long enough, she could completely rewrite the story of who we are.”
Not Heaven, Somewhere Else
by Rebecca Brown
Short stories. 80 pages. Paperback. October 2018
Cover art by Robyn O’Neil
If heaven is somewhere, it isn’t with us, but somewhere we want to get — a state, a place, a turning to home. Novel- and essayist Rebecca Brown’s thirteenth book is narrative cycle that revamps old fairy tales, movies, and myths, as it leads the reader from darkness to light, from harshness to love, from where we are to where we might go. “Aside from ‘genius,'” writes Paul Constant in the Seattle Review of Books “the other word I would use to describe Rebecca Brown is ‘elemental’…. It feels dangerous and exciting, like if she puts her big brain to it long enough, she could completely rewrite the story of who we are.”
water & power
by Steven Dunn
Novel. 180 pages. Paperback. October 2018
Cover photo by Jay Halsey.
Navy veteran Steven Dunn’s second novel, water & power, plunges into military culture and engages with perceptions of heroism and terrorism. In this shifting landscape, deployments are feared, absurd bureaucracy is normalized, and service members are consecrated. water & power is a collage of voices, documents, and critical explorations that disrupt the usual frequency channels of military narratives. “Collapses the boundaries between poetry and prose, memoir and fiction.” (Nikki Wallschlaeger) Difficult, funny, abject, exhilarating, heartbreaking…. Read this book and understand the veterans in your life better … who we are, complex and bold and conflicted and powerful and terrified and tough and human. (Khadijah Queen)
water & power
by Steven Dunn
Novel. 180 pages. Paperback. October 2018
Cover photo by Jay Halsey.
Navy veteran Steven Dunn’s second novel, water & power, plunges into military culture and engages with perceptions of heroism and terrorism. In this shifting landscape, deployments are feared, absurd bureaucracy is normalized, and service members are consecrated. water & power is a collage of voices, documents, and critical explorations that disrupt the usual frequency channels of military narratives. “Collapses the boundaries between poetry and prose, memoir and fiction.” (Nikki Wallschlaeger) Difficult, funny, abject, exhilarating, heartbreaking…. Read this book and understand the veterans in your life better … who we are, complex and bold and conflicted and powerful and terrified and tough and human. (Khadijah Queen)
TS Press News
The Shortlist | 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards
Three weeks ago we published the Longlist for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards. Today we are delighted to announce the Shortlist. Not content with mere lists, however, we are also featuring excerpts from shortlisted manuscripts...
The Longlist | 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards
Amidst the daily horror and grief of 2019, we are pleased to announce the Longlist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards.
BuzzFeed News spotlights Steven Dunn’s “water & power” (TS 2018)
Our sincere thanks to novelist Wendy J. Fox for including Steven Dunn's water & power (TS 2018) among her BuzzFeed showcase of "books that prove indie presses deserve your attention."
Film Trailer: Steven Dunn’s “Potted Meat” (TS 2016) adapted for “The Usual Route”
Foothills Productions releases The Usual Route, a short film based on Steven Dunn's novel Potted Meat, published by Tarpaulin Sky Press.
Lambda Literary Award Finalist! Piper J. Daniels’s “Ladies Lazarus”
We are very pleased to announce that Piper J. Daniels’s debut essay collection, Ladies Lazarus, published by Tarpaulin Sky Press, has been chosen as a finalist for a 2019 Lambda Literary Award.
SPD Bestseller! Steven Dunn’s “water & power”
We are unsurprised, but nonetheless delighted, to learn that Steven Dunn's second novel with Tarpaulin Sky Press, water & power, is currently a Fiction Bestseller at Small Press Distribution.
Piper J. Daniels’s “Ladies Lazarus” reviewed at VIDA
"Ladies Lazarus is an unapologetic work, so bitch and bad-ass, in the ways it uses beauty as a creative principle and transgressive force. It is the beauty that allows us to transform our shames into something usable...." -- Arisa White, VIDA
Tarpaulin Sky author Jennifer S. Cheng awarded NEA Fellowship!
We are thrilled to announce that Jennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems) has been awarded a $25,000 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, from the National Endowment of the Arts. We'd like to congratulate all the other winners as well -- with a special nod to TS Magazine contributor Kiki Petrosino!
The Rumpus review of Jennifer S. Cheng’s “Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems”
Our thanks to Julie Marie Wade at The Rumpus for her fascinating trans-genre engagement with Jennifer S. Cheng's Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems (TS 2018).
New essay by TS author Piper J. Daniels featured at Entropy Mag
"What I finally understand is that the stories for and about people like us are not real. They are borne of fear and control. They are ghost stories authored by people who haven’t the courage to place their fingers upon the planchette, never mind open themselves to the apparition." -- Piper J. Daniels
Piper J. Daniels’s “Ladies Lazarus” Longlisted for PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award!
We are delighted to announce that Piper J. Daniels’s debut collection of essays, Ladies Lazarus (TS 2018) has been longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Rebecca Brown’s “Not Heaven” makes Dennis Cooper’s year end list
Dennis Cooper's "Favorite fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, art, and internet of 2018" includes Rebecca Brown's Not Heaven, Somewhere Else (TS 2018) -- among a million other must-reads and must-sees.
Granta Magazine features excerpts from Steven Dunn’s “water & power”
Steven Dunn makes his third appearance in Granta with an excerpt from his second novel, water & power (Tarpaulin Sky Press 2018).
The Shortlist | 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards
Three weeks ago we published the Longlist for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards. Today we are delighted to announce the Shortlist. Not content with mere lists, however, we are also featuring excerpts from shortlisted manuscripts...
The Longlist | 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards
Amidst the daily horror and grief of 2019, we are pleased to announce the Longlist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards.