Big thanks to Rich Smith for his wide-ranging Stranger feature on Rebecca Brown and her new book with Tarpaulin Sky Press: Not Heaven, Somewhere Else: "These updated and revised fables satisfied a desire for moral discussion that I didn’t even know I had…. Highly recommended and highly rewarding."
We're tickled to note that Jennifer S. Cheng's hybrid masterpiece, Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems (TS 2018) is now officially a bestseller at Small Press Distribution.
Hernán Díaz, Renee Macalino, and TS Editor Elena Georgiou are finalists for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award, created to recognize work that illuminates the complexity of human experience as told by immigrants.
“Exhilarating.... An alt-epic for the 21st century... Visionary.... Rich and glorious." -- Publishers Weekly on Jennifer S. Cheng's Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems
"In this beautifully written collection of 11 lyric essays, debut author Piper J. Daniels challenges popular narratives about suicidal ideation, sexual assault, mental illness, and female bodies.... (and) emerges as an empowering and noteworthy voice."
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."
At Los Angeles Review of Books, fab poet Emma Bolden examines Amy King's "riotous, rapturous, and radical fifth full-length collection," The Missing Museum (TS Press 2016).
Thanks to Caroline Crew -- who just fucking gets us -- you can hop over to Kenyon Review for a brilliant examination of Elizabeth Hall’s I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris (TS 2016).
We don't need to tell you that the last several months have been exceptionally brutal. Nor will we comment further, except to say it is in the context of this nationwide brutality that we read manuscripts for the 2017 TS Book Prizes.