News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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What I’m Reading Now… by Wendy Chin-Tanner
Wendy Chin-Tanner dicusses books by Nicole Cooley, Lauren Groff, Sayaka Murata, Kathleen Riley, and Meg Wolitzer.
What I’m Reading Now… by Tod Lippy
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari An [...]
Now Available: Damien Echols, “High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row”
Publishing a book on Magick is the fulfillment of a life-long dream for Damien Echols. Reading it will be the fulfillment of a dream shared by his fans and supporters.
What I’m Reading Now… by Kathy Fagan Grandinetti
Kathy Fagan Grandinetti discusses books by Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Sheila Heti, Sabrina Orah Mark, Terrance Hayes, and Tarfia Faizullah.
What I’m Reading Now… by Alifair Skebe
Alifair Skebe discusses books by Maram Al-Massri, Kathline Carr, Robert Henri, Adeena Karasick, and Peter Turchi.
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."
Caroline Manring’s “Manual for Extinction” reviewed by Julia Madsen
"Caroline Manring’s Manual for Extinction exquisitely traces an ecopoetics of loss in the face of industrialism and myths of progress, revealing through nuance and beauty the 'news that stays news.'"
What I’m Reading Now… by Mary-Kim Arnold
Mary-Kim Arnold discusses books and anthologies by Fatimah Asghar, Kate Colby, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Christine Wertheim.
Selah Saterstrom’s “Ideal Suggestions: Essays In Divinatory Poetics,” reviewed by Abby Hagler
Abby Hagler reviews Selah Saterstrom's brilliant Ideal Suggestions: Essays In Divinatory Poetics (Essay Press, 2017): "A book dedicated to not only showing the link between the diviner and the writer, but also to helping a reader recognize the diviner within."
What I’m Reading Now… by Julia Madsen
Trembling Pillow Press Author Julia Madsen discusses books by Ryan Eckes, Brandi Homan, Marty Cain, Popahna Brandes, and Evelyn Hampton.
What I’m Reading Now… by Catherine Taylor
Catherine Taylor examines books by Jack Halberstam, Aby Kaupang & Matthew Cooperman, Christina Sharpe, AK Thompson, and Miyó Vestrini.
Kim Hyesoon’s “A Drink of Red Mirror,” reviewed by Ryan Bollenbach
"A Drink of Red Mirror becomes a catalyst that fires every neuron in your brain simultaneously.... It leaves you in this intoxicating condition, somewhere between love and abjection, from which you may never (want) to recover."
Amen. The Satanic Temple Is Now Legally a Church.
A first for Satanism, and a first in United States history, The Satanic Temple has been recognized by the IRS as a legitimate and legally protected Church.
Available for review: “Ascend Ascend,” by Janaka Stucky
Janaka Stucky's Ascend Ascend: written over the course of twenty days, as the author came in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church.
What I’m Reading Now… by Marcella Durand
Marcella Durand explores books by David Batchelor, Boubacar Boris Diop, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Harryette Mullen, dg nanouk okpik, and Donna Stonecipher.