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SPD Bestseller! Jennifer S. Cheng’s Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems (TS 2018)
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.
TS Press Editor Elena Georgiou named Finalist for the New American Voices Award from the Institute for Immigration Research
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.
Publishers Weekly starred review for Jennifer S. Cheng’s Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems (TS 2018)
“Exhilarating.... An alt-epic for the 21st century... Visionary.... Rich and glorious." -- Publishers Weekly on Jennifer S. Cheng's Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems
Publishers Weekly reviews Piper J. Daniels’ Ladies Lazarus (TS 2018)
"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 Magazine features excerpts from Steven Dunn’s “water & power”
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."
Los Angeles Review of Books on Amy King’s “The Missing Museum”
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).
Kenyon Review on Elizabeth Hall’s “I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris”
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).
Lambda Literary Award Finalist! Elizabeth Hall’s “I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris”
We're thrilled to announce that Elizabeth Hall's I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris (TS Press 2016) has been chosen as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in the category of Bisexual Nonfiction.
Kenyon Review on Amy King’s “The Missing Museum”
At Kenyon Review, editor Janet McAdams dives into Amy King's The Missing Museum (TS Press 2016): "A visceral stunner ... and an instruction manual.... King’s archival work testifies to the power—however obscured by the daily noise of our historical moment—of art, of the possibility for artists to legislate the world."
Blake Butler at VICE reviews Steven Dunn’s “Potted Meat” (TS 2016)
"Zero indulgence, all formative. Bone Thugs, underage drinking, alienation, death, love, Bob Ross, dreams of blood: This thin thing is flooded with power."
Lambda Literary Reviews The Missing Museum by Amy King (TS 2016)
The books we publish are often "difficult." Some reviewers have the chops to deal with it. Others, not so much. We get lucky with Heather Seggel at Lambda Literary, who is willing to to tackle Amy King's latest, The Missing Museum, a book that is precisely as difficult as, you know, the rest of life.
East Coast Tour dates for Elizabeth Hall, “I Have Devoted my Life to the Clitoris” (TS 2016)
Elizabeth Hall, East Coast tour dates: Athens, GA, with Melissa Buzzeo, & TBD; Chicago, IL, with Erik Anderson and Phillip Williams; Montclaire, NJ; Brooklyn, NY, with Claire Donato, Amy King, Vi Khi Nao, and Laura Warman; Philadelphia, PA, with Gina Meyers, Cynthia Dewi Oka, and Nicole Steinberg....
Aaron Apps’s Intersex (TS 2015) in American Book Review
"Graphic vignettes involving live alligators, diarrhea in department store bathrooms, domesticity, dissected animals, and the medicalization of sex…. Aaron Apps’s hybrid work extends beyond the lyrical and textual… An abandonment of sorts, a style of writing unafraid of failure and therefore willing to employ risk as a model for confronting violence, living with it, learning from it."
Granta features excerpts from Steven Dunn’s novel, Potted Meat (TS Press 2016)
We’re big in Britain. Granta features the first third of Steven Dunn’s debut novel, Potted Meat, co-winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. The book is out "officially" on August 1st. If you haven’t already “pre-ordered” Steven’s novel from us, do yourself a favor....
West Coast Tour dates for Elizabeth Hall, “I Have Devoted my Life to the Clitoris” (TS 2016)
May - June 2016: Portland, Or; Eugene, OR; San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth Hall, with Evelyn Hampton, Jamondria Harris, Amy Lam, Teresa K. Miller, Jordan Okumura, A.M. O'Malley, Jason Snyder, Robert Torres ...
Steven Dunn, excerpts from Potted Meat, in Columbia Journal
Columbia Journal features fiction by Steven Dunn: excerpts from his debut novel, Potted Meat, forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2016. "Chrissy Ann don’t stink. She smells like work. Like how I smell like coal smoke. She lives at the end of the holla on top of a mountain and has lots of hogs and chickens. She feeds them every morning. When I was at her house her little brother stuck a stick up the hog’s butt. Chrissy Ann slapped the shit out of him. Then she hugged the hog. Then she said we should take a walk in the woods to get out the heat and away from her stupid brother...."
Fanzine engagement with The Sugar Book by Johannes Goransson
"If it’s automatic writing, it’s machinic (firing on all eight cylinders). A circular vernacular. Freud’s death drive tied through repetition compulsion plus mnemonics to standard schoolmarm SVO. Haunt Musique. Sends its message like a mail train. Visceral Surrealism. [Johannes Goransson's] end game is an exit wound."
Publishers Weekly reviews Johannes Goransson’s The Sugar Book
"Doubling down on his trademark misanthropic imagery amid a pageantry of the unpleasant, Johannes Göransson strolls through a violent Los Angeles in this hybrid of prose and verse…. Prostitution, pubic hair, Orpheus, law, pigs, disease, Francesca Woodman ... and the speaker’s hunger for cocaine and copulation..... Fans of Göransson’s distorted poetics will find this a productive addition to his body of work."
BuzzFeed News spotlights Steven Dunn’s “water & power”
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” adapted for film
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.
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!
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).