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ÖRÆFI A BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD FINALIST!!!
Ófeigur Sigurdsson’s Öræfi: The Wasteland, translated from Icelandic by Lytton Smith, is a Best Translated Book Award finalist!!! The winner will be announced at the New York Rights Fair on Wednesday, May 29th. At 4:15 is a panel “International Literature: Promoting and Finding Audiences. Afterwards, at 5:00, the winner will be announced, with a $2,000 […]
EVENTS GALORE: Alisa Ganieva & Celebrations of Sphinx
Alisa Ganieva is in the USA! Alisa Ganieva has arrived in the US! TONIGHT she is reading in NYC at the awesomely amazing bookstore BOOK CULTURE on the Upper West Side (W. 112th St.), and then discussing her work with Ronald Meyer (Harriman Institute of Slavic Studies at Columbia University). The event is co-sponsored […]
Fall Catalog Preview: Books! Books! Books!
Greetings from Antwerp!! Without further ado, I bring to you a short synopsis of Deep Vellum’s Fall 2015/2016 list, which is available for preorder at your favorite local indie bookshops, Amazon, or for those in the trade, with your Consortium distribution orders. Also, new website coming soon with direct web-order, expanded book and author information […]
End of May Party All the Time
Can you believe May is almost over? The month started magically, with my piece in Lit Hub listing 5 Great Contemporary Mexican Writers that ran on Cinco de Mayo (there’s a marketing term for that kind of targeted publication, I’m sure of it). Later in the month, things stayed awesome over at the Lit Hub when […]
SHISH
We’ve published our fifth book!!! In a milestone for Deep Vellum, Mikhail Shishkin‘s Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories was officially published on Tuesday, bringing full circle the entire experience that got me into publishing in the first place: it’s Deep Vellum’s first Russian book (with a second on the way next month by Alisa Ganieva); […]
Texas on PEN Translation Prize Shortlist & 5-Book Subscribers RENEW NOW!!
TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT IS ON THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE SHORTLIST!!!!! Congratulations to Carmen Boullosa & Samantha Schnee, an author/translator dream team the likes of which are hard to find in any corner of the planet—it is an honor to have published this book, and it’s all thanks to these two amazingly creative women it’s […]
Deep Vellum at AWP, Literary Death Match in Dallas & MORE
AWP 2015 is upon us! Greetings from Minneapolis, where I’ve come to serenade the assembled #AWP15 masses with the siren song of translation. If you’re in town, join me at Table #1527, which Deep Vellum is sharing with the always-rad Anomalous Press which are run by Erica, who is also running the American Literary Translators […]
Megabus March Madness
Hello from a Megabus hurtling up I-35 from Austin to Dallas! Yesterday I hopped on a Megabus with a rolling suitcase packed full of books for Jón Gnarr’s talk with Dr. Dominic Boyer (Rice University) at Austin’s Nerd Nite at the North Door. The talk was called: “The Comedy of Politics and the Politics of […]
PEN Translation Award List & Art of Flight Release Day!!
It’s The Art of Flight release day!!!! Oh, you mean there’s some other kind of holiday today too?! May I suggest one way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year that doesn’t involve reinforcing alcoholic stereotypes: you can pick up a work of Irish literature. I mean written in Irish, not in the language of […]