#Tatiana Ryckman

[sonphia]

#tatiana ryckman #everytime i try to read this i wanna die #or idk its a lot though. a lot of feelings 4 me #book #books and writing #books #writing #art #love #crying tagging this thinking about evem teading thia book im done its called i dont think of you until i do

[garadinervi]

Sonnenzimmer, Cover design for Tatiana Ryckman: 'The Ancestry of Objects', Deep Vellum Publishing, Dallas, TX, 2020

#graphic design #geometry #pattern #book #cover #book cover #sonnenzimmer #tatiana ryckman #deep vellum publishing #2020s

[lifeinpoetry]

Were you the rocks I elected to break myself against? Are we all as helpless as we feel—

— Tatiana Ryckman, from I Don't Think of You (Until I Do)

#quote #Tatiana Ryckman #novella #I Don't Think of You (Until I Do) #out of my collection

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus,

Tonight at ARS, Seth Pennington opened for Tatiana Ryckman, who read from her novella I DON’T THINK OF YOU (UNTIL I DO). Good reading, good discussion, but you gave me your virus and now I feel like crap. I don’t know how you were so pleasant to be around when you had it--I don’t think I am. 

Dad

North Little Rock, Arkansas. 8.18.2018 - 8.01pm.

#tatiana ryckman #ars #argenta reading series #reading #lit #Argenta United Methodist Church #books #argenta #north little rock

[greedyreverence]

I Don't Think of You (Until I Do) by Tatiana Ryckman Future Tense Books — Free (Kindle Unlimited) / $5.99 (Kindle) / $12.00 (Print) Novella

An elegiac and dirty and horribly beautiful examination of love and the lack of it; Ryckman has written the anti-love story within all of us. A book so earnest and sharp in its examination of heartbreak, it will make you ache for all the people you haven’t even loved yet. (T Kira Madden, No Tokens)

Tatiana Ryckman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Austin, Texas. She is also the author of two chapbooks of short prose, Twenty-Something and VHS and Why It’s Hard to Live. Tatiana’s work has appeared on Tin House’s The Open Bar, Barrelhouse, Opossum Lit, The Establishment, Nonbinary Review, Flavorwire, and many other publications. Tatiana has been an artist in residence at Yaddo and Arthub, and she is the editor of Awst Press and Assistant Editor at sunnyoutside press.

#fiction #Tatiana Ryckman #I Don't Think of You (Until I Do) #lifeinpoetry books #out of my collection #lifeinpoetry read #Future Tense Books #Ebook: $4.01 to $6.00 #Print: $10.01 to $15.00 #Kindle eBook #Kindle Unlimited

[mortalpractice]

Once, in Middle School, I went into the city with my dad on a cultural excursion. Across the street from wherever we were–a restaurant or theater–a woman jumped out of her seat at an outdoor café. She screamed and ran, uninhibited and unencumbered despite very high heels, toward a man wearing a suit. She leapt into his arms and wrapped her legs around him. He said nothing, but he held her like that for a long time. I had never seen anything like it before.

Tatiana Ryckman, “0.3,” I Don’t Think of You (Until I Do)

#prose #quote #tatiana ryckman #0.3 #i don't think of you (until i do) #complete #love #joy #favorites

[minutiiae]

In an interview Claudia Rankine said, 'We’re invested in [things], despite the fact that they are not good for us and place us in a non-sovereign relationship to our own lives.' I kept quoting this line while everyone on the Internet rallied against the ugliness of the world. I slotted concerns about police brutality and racism and rape and the lineage of injustice between thoughts of you. I kept quoting this line when I rolled over in the dark cloak of my own tendency toward self-destruction. Were you the rocks I elected to break myself against? Are we all as helpless as we feel—when we watch the news? You visited me at my grandfather’s house on the other side of your town. That I used to think of your town as my own was the excuse I had for always coming back. We learned romance like it was new under the watchful eyes of my childhood while Fox serenaded us through the floorboards. Is any of it connected? Is any of it not connected?

I Don’t Think of You (Until I Do), Tatiana Ryckman  

#tatiana ryckman #i don't think of you (until i do)

[upperrubberboot]

#small press #tatiana ryckman #booklr #bibliophile #fiction

[franklinparkreadingseries]

In February, the Franklin Park Reading Series is celebrating small presses, showcasing a slate of notable indie authors from across the country: Scott McClanahan (The Sarah Book), Hermione Hoby (Neon in Daylight), Colin Winnette (The Job of the Wasp), Juliet Escoria (Witch Hunt, Black Cloud), Tatiana Ryckman (I Don’t Think of You (Until I Do)), and Kyle Lucia Wu (Joyland)!

#franklin park #reading series #franklin park reading series #scott mclanahan #hermione hoby #colin winnette #juliet escoria #tatiana ryckman #kyle lucia wu

[gchoate17]

I read 28 books in 2018. These were my favorite 10.

1.      Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

This is the modern book on race I've been waiting for. Honest, hard-hitting, and desperate, but always grounded in intelligence.

2.      Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)

So tragic on so many levels. Nevermind that he tackled well the voice of a child, or that of an elderly immigrant, it seems Foer has perfected the ability to tell a story within a story.

3.      The History of the Future by Edward McPherson (2017)

History should be taught to high school students in the way that McPherson presents it in this collection of essays—he makes the reader understand how the history of a subject is relevant today. He doesn’t overlook popular culture, and he doesn’t overlook the parts of history that are only tangentially related to the subject matter. Because of that, it becomes clear that there is an art to his method. This book is as educational as it is entertaining. And of course, at times it’s infuriating and terrifying. Highly recommend.

4.      No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (2005)

It's the dialogue that gets me with McCarthy. And the darkness that somehow hides in plain sight. It's so well done that it feels like he must've somehow cheated. The only reason I couldn't give this five stars is because it felt like there was some unnecessary wandering in the narrative at times. I felt like the story could've been tighter. But I would never say that to McCarthy's face.

5.      A Thousand Distant Radios by Woody Skinner (2017)

I prefer reading nonfiction and when I can't, I prefer reading realistic fiction, but Skinner's collection of stories won me over with its absurdities. By the time I reached the end of the book, I craved the absurdity that I knew would eventually come. His characters were just quirky enough to not only believe, but love, and I rooted for them to fit into society in the way they seemed to want to, but just couldn't. Skinner subtly gives his characters the kind of vulnerability that makes you feel like you know them far better than what reading these stories should allow. That's a mark of a great writer.

6.      The Only World You Get by Dennis Vannatta (2016)

I have spent the bulk of my life in Arkansas and I cannot pinpoint exactly what it is about the way Arkansans talk to each other that makes them uniquely Arkansan, but it seems like Dennis Vannatta must know. I especially enjoyed “Fireflies” because reading it made me feel like I was sitting at my great-grandmother’s dinner table, listening to my great uncles talk using the language someone from anywhere else might never understand.

7.      The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (2011)

Because the characters are real people and because so much of the novel seems to come from research, I often forgot that I wasn’t reading a memoir. Indeed, I felt betrayed every time I did remember. While I haven’t read An Immovable Feast in six or seven years, I felt like I was reading the mirror to it with this book.

8.      I Don’t Think of You (Until I Do) by Tatiana Ryckman (2017)

This novella reminded me of I Wrote This For You. It was gutwrenching from the outset, revealing just enough about the narrator and the object of his/her affection and the narrative between them that you felt the emotional destruction. But you knew so little. Ryckman’s sentences are nuanced and her storytelling is delightfully efficient.

9.      The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded by Molly McCully Brown (2017)

Haunting. Incredible blend of research, fiction, and poetry. Molly McCully Brown's career is going to be fun to follow.

10.   2017 WLA Folios: Peace (Edited) by Jesse Goolsby (2017)

I liked that this book felt like a true collection of things because of the use of prose, poetry, and art. It was also a collection of perspectives on the same subject—peace—which worked well. A lot of voices here, speaking on a subject they seemed to have put a lot of thought into. I especially enjoyed Roxana Robinson’s piece.

Biggest Disappointment: 25. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Korbet (2014)

I absolutely believe in this book’s thesis—that we as humans have caused the extinction of pretty much every species we have come into contact with, and also that we have already started to cause our own extinction. And I appreciate that this Pulitzer-winning book is being circulated to the masses, but this book is dry and boring, despite its attempts to not be, and I feel like I owe it to anyone who might read this review to be honest about that.

Previous Book Lists: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011.

#books #lists #best of #best of 2018 #2018 #end of year list #lit #literature #between the world and me #ta nehisi coates

[artsleaderuh]

@Glasstire : "This piece is a sort of adventure, and yet another reminder of the curious construction of our physical lives." Read Tatiana Ryckman's review of the INTERWOVEN group show at @MASS_Gallery in Austin https://t.co/ooJiBjZPNf https://t.co/ZdYwGdBwBn (via Twitter http://twitter.com/Glasstire/status/1097972098197323777)

#uh arts center for arts leadership #university of houston texas arts #houston #photography #Glasstir

[becketted]

This morning I told myself I could have a rock for a heart, and I practiced taking out my real heart and putting a rock in its place. I told myself not to worry, no one would be able to tell the difference. I distrusted my real heart and believed that it would try to creep back in. I held it far away.

I Hope It’s a Better Day in Washington, Tatiana Ryckman

#daisy feels blog

[zoocakepress]

TWENTY-SOMETHING

Tatiana Ryckman’s Twenty-Something is BACK but we’re SOLD OUT! 

Contact Tatiana or Malvern Books to get yourself a copy!

RAWR!!

[lifeinpoetry]

But why do I say we when I mean I emptied myself into the idea of you? 

Perhaps this was the source of my shame: I could no longer delineate between you and my thoughts of you, which is to say, myself.

— Tatiana Ryckman, from I Don't Think of You (Until I Do)

#quote #Tatiana Ryckman #novella #I Don't Think of You (Until I Do) #out of my collection

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus,

Tonight we had our first meeting with the After Hours Book Club, which is a collaboration between Argenta Reading Series and the Bookstore at Library Square (CALS). We discussed Tatiana Ryckman’s I DON’T THINK OF YOU (UNTIL I DO). Even though it was only a small turnout (six), it was a good conversation about the book, and we’ll continue it Saturday night when Ryckman will read at ARS. 

Dad

Little Rock, Arkansas. 8.16.2018 - 8.26pm.

#wren ward #sammy williams #after hours #book club #tatiana ryckman #the bookstore at library square #calzone

[madsfoxwritings]

31 Days - August 2018

From 31 Days Livejournal

1. I was my own thief, the words came out of nowhere and caught me. 2. You abandon the universe in which you are still alive. 3. The house kept its own time. 4. Oh, my fingers would like to cut down the stars. 5. I beg to be let out of my mouth. 6. And every wound you own is beautiful to me. 7. My body is a house, but yours is a home.

8. My endangered bones are sweet. 9. Does the sky get tired of its heart burning all day long? 10. I am still here now in the screaming light. 11. It is amazing how long a ruined thing will burn. 12. Let us throw everything we know into the ocean. 13. And so I am banned from considering myself alive. 14. This body is a runaway howl. 15. My want is the god of touch. 16. I want each rib in my body to hold the shadow of a lion. 17. As we gather the pieces of a broken thing. 18. Be hot and cold and think for yourself. That’s all I ask. 19. Teeth shining and ravenous. 20. It won’t take many; it will take just one. 21. The planet pulls our bodies through the year. 22. Our blood hears starlight in these stones. 23. In your mouth, rain and sugar. 24. I emptied myself into the idea of you. 25. I have held the bright storm of you hot in my hands. 26. Sometimes language is the animal, sometimes it’s the gun. 27. & what is a map but the delusion of safety? 28. Be the kind of witch they are always burning, but do not burn 29. I pledge my neck to every knife. 30. What will I dream of? Horses and the whispering rain and a song just beyond hearing. 31. To make a burning room of this mouth. 1. Herta Muller 2. Kenzaburo Oe 3. Haruki Murakami 4. Alfonsina Storni 5. Kristin Chang 6. James Diaz 7. Savannah Slone 8. Angel Nafis 9. Ruth Baumann 10. Dorothea Lasky 11. Paul Guest 12. Jane Wong 13. Monica McClure 14. Rachelle Toarmino 15. Jasmine Reid 16. Ruth Madievsky 17. Alicia Mountain 18. Alice Notley 19. Cassandra de Alba 20. Leah Umansky 21. Oliver de la Paz 22. Catherine Kyle 23. Nancy Huang 24. Tatiana Ryckman 25. Alicia Mountain 26. Taylor Johnson 27. Yesenia Montilla 28. Cassandra de Alba 29. Kristin Chang 30. Paul Guest 31. Safiya Sinclair

#prompts #writing prompt #prompt: unfilled