September at Deep Vellum

We’ve been busy here at Deep Vellum, and are excited to share with you the latest and greatest in Deep Vellum news! Read on for more about North Texas Giving Day, our authors’ U.S. Tours, upcoming releases, and more!

September 22 is North Texas Giving Day
powered by the Communities Foundation of Texas

Visit NorthTexasGivingDay.org between 6am – midnight (CT) on Thursday, September 22 to make your donation and show your support!

North Texas Giving Day is an online giving event for people across the nation (and the world!) to come together to raise as much money as possible for North Texas nonprofits on one day. In seven years, North Texas Giving Day has pumped $119 million into the North Texas community. In 2015, $33 million was raised through more than 118,000 gifts benefiting 2,020 nonprofits.

We rely on your generosity to not only keep the lights on, but also to support authors and translators as we seek out and publish exciting literary works from around the globe and work to foster growth in the literary arts community in Dallas and beyond. Deep Vellum is committed to bringing you the greatest in world literature, connecting our readers to new perspectives, new ideas, and new cultures through the power of the written word. You are why we do this, and we can’t do it without you! Let’s make this year our best yet!

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Author Tours Start This Week!

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Ananda Devi and Lina Meruane will participate in panel discussions as part of
the Brooklyn Book Festival

The Political Coming of Age
Ananda Devi, award-winning author of Eve Out of Her Ruins, will join Egyptian journalist Yasmine El Rashidi, author of the debut novel Chronicle of a Last Summer, and Slovenian-Austrian author Maja Haderlap, author of Angel of Oblivion, in a panel discussion moderated by Gabriel Sanders of Tablet Magazine. The conversation will explore intersection of politics and identity and the role political realities play in shaping the lives of their characters—and the stories they chose to tell.
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September 18, 2016
2:00pm
Borough Hall Media Room, 209 Joralemon St

Ananda will continue her U.S. Tour, sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, with visits to bookstores and universities throughout the states. Scroll down for the full tour schedule.

Body Language – Heart, Eyes, Blood
Lina Meruane, author of Seeing Red, will participate in a conversation with French writer Maylis de Kerangal, author of The Heart, and South African author Masande Ntshanga, author of The Reactive, to discuss how the authors’ very graphic explorations of sudden blindness, a heart transplant, and HIV infection raise issues, both physical and metaphysical. The panel will be moderated by Neelika Jayawardne.
More Information

September 18, 2016
10:00am
Borough Hall Media Room, 209 Joralemon St

New Books!

What Are the Blind Men Dreaming?

Our 20th book, What Are the Blind Men Dreaming? by Brazilian author Noemi Jaffe, and translated by Julia Sanches and Ellen Elias-Bursać, will be released this month! This powerful, profoundly moving glimpse into the lives of three generations of women affected by the Holocaust is a beautiful, unparalleled use of literature as a means to bear witness.
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A Zero-Sum Game

The U.S. presidential elections are coming up! What better way to prepare than with the debut novel from Mexico’s Eduardo Rabasa, named one of the 20 best contemporary Mexican authors under 40 in the Hay Festival’s México20 project! A Zero-Sum Game, translated by Christina MacSweeney and scheduled for publication in October, is a dark, biting political satire of modern consumer society and the cult of the individual, taking to task the sophistry and rationalization that mask the actual situation where, for all the choices we are offered, we have little power over our destinies.
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Our Latest Reviews!

If you’re looking for something awesome to read on your lunch break, check out the latest reviews:

One Hundred Twenty-One Days

Reviewed by Nancy Kline in the New York Times Book Review, which also included Open Letter’s new Marguerite Duras book

Vaseline Buddha

Reviewed in the Los Angeles Times by Tyler Malone

Before

What Are the Blind Men Dreaming?

The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers

Eve Out of Her Ruins

Review in VERTIGO by Terry Pitts
Reviewed in British magazine The Skinny by Gary Kaill
Recommended by bookseller Josh Cook of Porter Square Books, where Devi will read on September 24
Interview with Ananda Devi and translator Jeffrey Zuckerman for French Culture, part of the French Embassy in the U.S.
Tweet from Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation
Included in Literary Hub’s “Great Booksellers Fall 2016 Preview”

Voroshilovgrad

Reviewed in Lively Arts by Willard Manus

La Superba

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Reviewed and recommended in Biblibio by Meytal Radzinski, founder of Women in Translation Month

Seeing Red

The Holiday Season Is Just Around the Corner!

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