Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive are thrilled to announce a literary event almost twenty years in the making:
Arriving in 2025, YOUR NAME HERE marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and introduces the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff. This death-defying feat of a novel will be published by Dalkey Archive Press one year from today, on September 23, 2025.
Read MoreLawton’s translation of the Italian classic HORCYNUS ORCA by Stefano D’Arrigo is set to be published by Deep Vellum in 2029. This is the only Italian work of fiction from the 20th century that is equal to the complexity of Moresco’s trilogy. What would happen if one were to combine ULYSSES and MOBY DICK and have the resulting text take place in WWII Sicily? Something like HORCYNUS ORCA––a bizarre, oneiric Odyssey through a linguistically manic nautical netherworld characterized by Sicilian neologisms, dolphin meat, interpersonal encounters driven by the ineffable logic of myth, and a 200-page section of metaphysical stasis that has been known to drive readers mad.
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