November reviews

at the Tarpaulin Sky reviews blog:

Katie Eberhart reviews Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)

Katie Eberhart reviews Peter Waterhouse's Language Death Night Outside, Poem Novel, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop (Burning Deck/Anyart, 2009)

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Libraries, Small Press and Cross-Pollination Oh My! An Interview with Nick Demske

A few months ago, I sat down to a dinner and interview with Nick Demske, a librarian, curator and poet in Racine, Wisconsin. We spoke about his take on a library’s place in the world of contemporary small press poetry and fiction, as well as his thoughts on cross-pollination.

So Nick, since you are both a librarian and a poet, do you spend most of your time in the poetry section of the library?

Yes, poetry section, all the way. I also wind up in the feminist and the language sections a lot.

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Christian Peet's "Pluto: Never Forget," now available from Interbirth Books

Tarpaulin Sky Press publisher Christian Peet has a new chapbook out, Pluto: Never Forget, published by Interbirth Books.

Seventy-six books were designed, printed, assembled, and hand bound 100% in-house at Interbirth Books by Micah Robbins and Clifton Riley. Twenty-six books are bound between boards using the coptic stitch, lettered A-Z, and signed by the author. Fifty books are bound in paper using the pamphlet stitch. The cover is an original silk screen print.

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Recently Received / Review Copies Available

[NOTE: Most of the titles below are available for review at Tarpaulin Sky. Titles marked with asterisks are hand-bound books or special editions and are limited, if still available.--Eds.]

Manoel de Barros, Birds for a Demolition. Translated by Idra Novey (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010)

Tyler Flynn Dorholt, Danielle Dutton, Matt Hart, Shane Michalik, City (Sidebrow Books, 2010)

Denver Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1

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Chart-Toppers

We're thrilled to see that Kim Gek Lin Short's The Bugging Watch and Other Exhibits appears on the most recent Fiction Bestsellers list at Small Press Distribution. Perhaps a result of being adopted for lit and writing classes this year? Thereby spreading the bug infestation and ensuring the propagation of Kim's special brand of weird?

All according to plan! Just as InDigest Magazine found themselves compelled to list Bugging as one of their 2010 Favorites. Yes, it is all coming together now. . . . Bwah ha haaa!

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Interview with new TSky Press author Sarah Goldstein

at Open Letters Monthly, who also includes a generous selection of Sarah's visual art.

Sarah was born in Toronto and lives in western Massachusetts.  Her artwork has been exhibited in the US and Canada, and her first book, Fables, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press in spring of 2011.

Here's a little excerpt from the interview:

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