News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

What I’m Reading Now… by Erin Moure

Erin Moure on Bertrand Laverdure’s Readopolis, Robert Majzels’s City of Forgetting, Louky Bersianik’s Maternative, Uxío Novoneyra’s Os Eidos, and Lupe Gómez's Camuflaxe.

What I’m Reading Now… by Ely Shipley

Ely Shipley on books by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Jennifer Firestone, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Eduardo Kohn, and Joseph Tafur, MD, with shoutouts to Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Ching-In Chen, Duriel E. Harris, and Orlando White.

The 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize Winners & Finalists

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.

What I’m Reading Now… by Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen on books and chaps by Edwidge Danticat, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Cecilia Vicuña, Yuri Herrera, Larkin Higgins, Eléna Rivera, Christina Gruber, Marthe Reed, and Jenifer Sang Eun Park.

Katie Jean Shinkle’s “Ruination,” reviewed by Meghan Lamb

"Condensing a war, an outbreak, an apocalyptic flourishing of the sky, and a girl’s coming of age evolution into the length of a novella....Leaving us in a state of exploded-open Ruination, Shinkle slyly invites us to pick up the pieces, to reassemble ourselves anew."

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