TS Mag: Reading Guides

What I’m Reading Now… by Timothy O’Keefe

Timothy O’Keefe discusses books and chapbooks by C.S. Giscombe, David Markson, Marcel Proust, Mary Ruefle, and Tomas Tranströmer.

What I’m Reading Now… by Danielle Pafunda

Danielle Pafunda holds forth on books by Josué Guébo, Ginger Ko, Esther Hautzig, and Jeff VanderMeer; anthologies by Leslie Jamison and by TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson; and more!

TS Mag: Reading Guides

What I’m Reading Now… by Divya Victor

Divya Victor discusses “some enjoyments during our daily devastations” — books by Holly Melgard, Aditi Machado, Mercedes Eng, Eric Schmaltz, and Serena Chopra.

TS Mag: Reading Guides

What I’m Reading Now… by Geoffrey Babbitt

Geoffrey Babbitt discusses books by Xhenet Aliu, Laurie Sheck, Sasha Steensen, Max Wolf Valerio, and Nicole Walker.

TS Mag: Reading Guides

What I’m Reading Now… by V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan discusses books by Rohinton Mistry, Solmaz Sharif, Ralph Ellison, Grace Paley, and Toni Morrison.

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What I’m Reading Now… by Heather June Gibbons

Hackers by Aase Berg (translated by Johannes Goransson) Channeling flatworm parasites, an Amazonian queen, rabbits, Trojan horses, and whistleblowers, Swedish poet Aase Berg hacks…

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What I’m Reading Now… by Jennifer S. Cheng

TS author Jennifer S. Cheng discusses books by Victoria Chang, Anne Anlin Cheng, Emily Dickinson (edited by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner), Vievee Francis, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

TS Mag: Reading Guides

What I’m Reading Now… by Danielle Deulen

Danielle Deulen discuses work by Hannah Lillith Assadi, Samiya Bashir, Lindsay Bernal, K.A. Hays, Brandon Som, and John Yau.

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What I’m Reading Now… by Rachel Abramowitz

“Give me the weird,” writes Rachel Abramowitz, who discusses books by Joe Abercrombie, Clarissa Pinkola Estés PhD, Shirley Jackson, Kenneth Koch, and Mary Ruefle.

¿qué es TARPAULIN SKY?

exquisite imagination... (Publishers Weekly "Best Books 2018") warped from one world to another (The Nation); beautifully startling and fucked and funny and tender and sad and putrid and glitter-covered all at once. (VICE); simultaneously metaphysical and visceral ... scary, sexual, and intellectually disarming (Huffington Post); only becomes more surreal (NPR Books); hallucinatory ... trance-inducing (Publishers Weekly "Best Summer Reads"); an orgy ... at once sexy and scientifically compelling (The Rumpus); wholly new (Iowa Review); riotous, rapturous, and radical (LA Review of Books); breakneck prose harnesses the throbbing pulse of language itself (Publishers Weekly); the opposite of boring.... an ominous conflagration devouring the bland terrain of conventional realism (Bookslut); Visceral Surrealism (Fanzine); as savagely anti-idealist as Burroughs or Guyotat or Ballard (Entropy); both devastating and uncomfortably enjoyable (American Book Review); creating a zone where elegance and grace can gambol with the just-plain-fucked-up (HTML Giant); consistently inventive (TriQuarterly); playful, experimental appeal (Publishers Weekly); feels like coming (Maudlin House); language dissolves into stream-of-consanguinity post-surrealism and then resolves into a plot again (Harriet); horrifying and humbling in their imaginative precision (The Rumpus); a peculiar, personal music that is at once apart from and very much surrounded by the world (Verse); a world of wounded voices (Hyperallergic); dangerous language, a murderous kind.... discomfiting, filthy, hilarious, and ecstatic (Bookslut); dark, multivalent, genre-bending ... unrelenting, grotesque beauty (Publishers Weekly); futile, sad, and beautiful (NewPages); melding and resisting traditional conventions of genre (HTML Giant); refreshingly eccentric (The Review of Contemporary Fiction); a kind of nut job's notebook (Publishers Weekly); thought-provoking, inspired and unexpected. Highly recommended (After Ellen)