Granta issue 142 -- "Animalia" -- features an excerpt from water & power Steven Dunn's forthcoming second novel with Tarpaulin Sky Press: "A surreal and compelling indictment of the US military machine."
Excerpts from Steven Dunn's forthcoming second novel with Tarpaulin Sky Press, water & power , appear in a new journal called Rigorous.
Julia Bouwsma reviews Steven Dunn's Potted Meat (TS 2016): "As ragged as it is vibrant, as beautiful as it is destitute, and as intoxicating as it is dangerous...."
Our thanks to the brilliant Dana Green, who reviews Steven Dunn's Potted Meat (TS 2016) at the always-excellent Diagram: "The blend between detail, sincerity, and raw honesty finds its home in a fragmented, short form that only tells what it needs to, and continually leaves me without breath."
Today, good news comes in twos. We’re totally stoked to announce that debut author Steven Dunn's Potted Meat (TS Press 2016) has been chosen as a finalist for a Colorado Book Award in the category of Literary Fiction.
"Zero indulgence, all formative. Bone Thugs, underage drinking, alienation, death, love, Bob Ross, dreams of blood: This thin thing is flooded with power."
At Necessary Fiction, Steven Dunn talks Potted Meat, Selah Saterstrom, Nas, Outkast, grammar, and privilege: "A huge lesson in self-acceptance, like sometimes I’m on some street shit, and sometimes I’m on some introspective-space shit. And it’s fine. The (human) (artistic) form can hold both and what’s in between and outside."
Thanks to Levi Andrew Noe at Rocky Mountain Revival, you can hear new TS author Steven Dunn read from his novel, Potted Meat, and you can hear an interview with Steven as well.
Steven Dunn: "I prefer the other definitions of plot, like a burial plot or garden plot: a space to excavate, grieve, cultivate, construct, or whatever types of work has to be done there."