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IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

Literally Cursed: Reviewing Marc Perrusquia’s Frightening Two-Decade Obsession with Damien Echols

It appears that Memphis Commercial Appeal journalist Marc Perrusquia is still suffering from The Blood of Innocents, his co-authored mass-market failure from 1995, which had hoped to profit from the State of Arkansas's fictional case against the West Memphis Three. Readers might reasonably expect that Perrusquia would have politely ignored the recent publication of Damien Echols' memoir, Life After Death -- or that Perrusquia might have even used the occasion to apologize for getting the case so wrong. Instead, as if cornered, flying in the face of reason, Perrusquia decided to attack. To take one last swipe at the man who lost 18 years to Perrusquia's satanic fiction, but survived, and then had the gall to write about it.

Books, Chapbooks, & Magazines Received / Available for Review

New books from 29 authors on 19 presses, including books by Luca Arnaudo, Dan Beachy-Quick & Matthew Goulish, Suzette Marie Bishop, Amaranth Borsuk & Brad Bouse, Stephen Brockwell, Oni Buchanan, Julie Choffel, Rob Cook, Stephanie Dickinson, Alexander Dickow, Farrah Field, Richard Froude, Sarah Mangold, Barry McKinnon, rob mclennan, Joe Milazzo, Marci Nelligan, Jena Osman, Natalie Peeterse, Michael du Plessis, Chris Pusateri, Elizabeth Rainer & Michael Blouin, Elizabeth Robinson, sturnus vulgaris, Rodney Wittwer, and Deanna Young, from above/ground press, Ahsahta Press, Black Radish Books, Calamari Press, Corrupt Press, CW Books, Denver Quarterly, Fordham University Press, Four Way Books, Gold Line Press, Les Figues, Little Red Leaves, Red Hen Press, Siglio, Skylight Press, Spuyten Duyvil, Steerage Press, University of Iowa Press, and Wesleyan University Press.

Amaranth Borsuk interviewed at Daily BR!NK

"You can’t read anything about literature lately without running into a debate about the future of publishing, and depending on which side of the fence you’ve hopped to, you’re likely either mourning the takeover of the Big Bad E-Book or scoffing at the dusty bookshelves of those silly Luddites," the Daily BRINK accurately observes, before deciding "to examine a compromise. Or rather, offer up an artistic collaboration that will leave even the most opinionated readers, well, without words. Poet and teacher Amaranth Borsuk, along with her collaborator, Brad Bouse, have created a book of poetry that couldn’t exist without both paper and pixels. The result is stunning, and is aptly titled, Between Page and Screen...."

Delirious Hem, Jennifer L. Knox to curate essays on “Chick Flix”

Says Knox, at Delirious Hem: "The subject, Chick Flix, is wide open.... I was going to declare one chick per flick, but if two people cover Heathers or Pretty Woman, it’s not going to retread any ground....You can write a 50 word punch in the face, or a 5,000 scholarly treatise. That's why there are scroll bars. Just don’t be a bore."

New to us: Phantom Limb

Yes, their most recent issue features new work from TSky author Shelly Taylor. But that's not the only reason to read the issue. There is also a conversation with Dorothea Lasky, among a dozen other things. Prior issues include work by TSky writers and peeps Heather Christle, Patrick Culliton, George Kalamaras, Karla Kelsey, Becca Klaver, Nate Pritts, and Brandon Shimoda.

Brevity’s new issue: “CEILING or SKY? Female Nonfictions After the VIDA Count”

Guest edited by Susanne Antonetta, Joy Castro, and Barrie Jean Borich, with art by Gabrielle Katina, Brevity's Fall 2012 issue, "CEILING or SKY? Female Nonfictions After the VIDA Count," is the mag's first-ever guest-edited issue and is "focused on the important contribution of female writers to the creative nonfiction movement." Not only is our own feminist press pleased on principle, but we're also delighted to note that Brevity's new issue includes "Choom," new nonfiction by TSky Press author Jenny Boully....

Noah Saterstrom works a lot

Noah Saterstrom is a visual artist and web designer who, among other things, works with writers on text/image collaborations (Kate Bernheimer, Anne Waldman, Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, et al), and is the founder and curator of Trickhouse.

María Negroni’s “Dark Museum” Reviewed by Chris Moran

"The space in Dark Museum feels archetypal, mythic, and without clear precedent. Words are talismanic and a curse, and desire, death, dreams and decadence mingle with sorrow and the grotesque" — Chris Moran on María Negroni's Dark Museum (Action Books 2015).

CA Conrad’s “Ecodeviance” reviewed by Heather Sweeney

"These pages are fields of healing crystals. A crystal text. Crystal gestures full of strange angles. These are visceral experiments spliced with memory" -- Heather Sweeney on CA Conrad's Ecodeviance (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books, 2014)

Sade Murphy’s “Dream Machine” reviewed by Jeffrey Hecker

"Crowd-surfs the absurd, disturbs the sleeping, pinches the conscious on both cheeks Dutch-Colonial style, frightens the tranquil, and stimulates arm-stub nerve-endings like Johns Hopkins researchers attempting to help frustrated amputees."--Jeffrey Hecker on Sade Murphy's *Dream Machine* (co-im-press, 2014)

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