TSky Press & Friends featured in Paste Magazine

The September issue of Paste Magazine brings small presses to the attention of the music scene, in Justin Taylor's article featuring Tarpaulin Sky Press along with two of our faves: Cannibal Books and Pilot Books.

Buy the issue in a store near you, or check it out online (we're on p. 20) at Paste's website.

Trickhouse, Vol. 2

Trickhouse is back. And it's nothing short of awe-inspiring. Curated by Noah Saterstrom, edited by Selah Saterstrom, Trickhouse's current installation/incarnation includes

visual artist Gisela Insuaste

writers Akilah Oliver, Kristen Nelson, and Brenda Coultas

guest curator David Banash with William Davies King

sound from Paulo Hartmann with Orchestra Descarrego

video from Ed Bowes - "Against the Slope of Social Speech"

correspondent Robert Anasi

interview between Elwood Beach & George Hildrew

an experiment by David Lowe

Sous Rature Debut

The first issue of Sous Rature is now online, edited by TSky contributor Cara Benson and featuring a host of must-reads: Diana Magallon and Jeff Crouch, Chris Vitiello, Tomie Hahn, Kathrin Schaeppi, Carrie Hunter, Jennifer Calkins, Drew Kunz, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Rachel Levitsky, Christian Bök, Raymond Farr, derek beaulieu, Michael Peters, Matt Hart, Mako Matsuda, Susana Gardner, Emma Phillipps, Suzy Scarlata, Rick Moody, Marco Giovenale, Caroline Crumpacker, Ernest Williamson III, Riccardo Boglione , Mark Lamoureux , and Todd Colby.

A New Fungus is Amungus

New Zealand's White Fungus Issue 9 is now available in North America (and we have a review copy reserved for you)

White Fungus Issue 9 is the second to be distributed in North America by Disticor. The irreverent New Zealand-based arts mag continues in its tradition of mixing together critical writing on art and new music, alongside poetry, literature, comics and political satire.

The new issue is teeming with new interdisciplinary content, including in-depth interviews with sound artists Annea Lockwood (New York) and Justice Yeldham (Sydney), writing on The Dead C, John Wiese, Manuel Gottsching, and a look into the visual work of Greg Malcolm.

The issue also features new artworks by artists, including Richard Killeen, Hye Rim Lee and Leslie Rice; drawings by Taipei artist Yao Jui-Chung, who revisits traditional Chinese painting while residing in Scotland; and a series of perturbing handwritten suggestions for improvements to the State by Wellington-based conceptual artist Tao Wells.

Literature in the new issue includes poetry by Iain Britton (Auckland), Gu Xie (Guang Zhou) and Anne Cammon (New York), and a history article by Jane Janesly on the indomitable Chew Chong, an early Chinese pioneer to New Zealand who helped kick-start the colony's dairy industry with his fungus-exporting business. Los Angeles writer Juan Santos writes a hard-hitting article on global warming and resource wars in the 21st Century while Wellington artist Tim Bollinger contributes a brand new color comic entitled Noah.

Edited by Ron Hanson.

Horseless Review #6

Horseless Review #6

Edited by small press pillar Jen Tynes.

Featuring new work by by MTC Cronin, Jesse Crockett, Nicholas Grider, Joshua Ware, Mike Sikkema, Jared Stanley, Robyn Art, Mg Roberts, Jason Stumpf, Mark DeCarteret, Clint Frakes, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Daniel Godston, Jared White, James Capozzi, Laura Carter, Conan Kelly, and Anne Heide in collaboration with James Belflower and J Michael Martinez.

Coconut #13

Coconut #13

Edited by the indefatigable Bruce Covey.

Featuring excerpts from Teresa K. Miller's chapbook, Forever No Lo, forthcoming from TSky Press.

Not to mention, hmm, well, Rae Armantrout, David Lehman, Ariana Reines, Kate Colby, Carrie Olivia Adams, James Belflower, Anne Marie Rooney, Kristi Maxwell, Jason Zuzga, Megan Kaminski, Christopher Higgs, Nellie Haack, Claire Donato, Ravi Shankar, Emily Anderson, Laynie Browne, Jonathan Doherty, Kathleen Jesme, Matina Stamatakis, Mike Young, Terence Winch.

Bhanu Kapil's Shiny New Tarpaulin Sky

Tarpaulin Sky Issue #14 Summer 08

Guest edited by Bhanu Kapil

Featuring new texts by Chris Abani, Dodie Bellamy, Lisa Birman, Melissa Buzzeo, Amy Catanzano, Amber DiPietra, Dolores Dorantes, Elena Georgiou, Alan Gilbert, Renee Gladman, Brenda Iijima, Bill Luoma, Laura Mullen, Michelle Naka Pierce, Deborah Richards, Christine Wertheim, and Hazel White

With cover art by Rohini Kapil, vispo by Caroline Bergvall, a cartoon by Isaac Currie, art by Susan McCann, and interview with Michelle Naka Pierce

Hit it and don't quit.

New Reviews at TSky: Prevallet & Saarikoski

Kristin Prevallet's I, Afterlife: Essays in Mourning Time
Reviewed by Megan Burns

"A stunning precision in language cracks open the elegy exposing both its limitations and its necessity. . . . The effect is startling and troubling; Prevallet’s language tears into the body and then seeks to keep the wound from healing." [READ MORE]

The Edge of Europe: A Kinetic Image
Pentti Saarikoski, translated by Anselm Hollo
Reviewed by Summer Block

"There are few things Saarikoski is not willing to say, personal or political. . . . Everything unsaid here is heartbreaking." [READ MORE]