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Dorothy, a publishing project

@dorothyproject.bsky.social

St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com

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ann-christin kumm@gegenschreiben.bsky.social · last wk.

"Write into the winter, and the summer, and autumn, and spring. Write into the snow and flowers and the wreaths and the wallpaper. [...] Write into the cane. The needle and the cloth. Into the times you were unhappy." amina cain, a horse at night. on writing

Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · last wk.

“We definitely see decreased attention spans and an increase in overwhelm and shame. Everyone seems to know doomscrolling has flattened everything and they know they’re overwhelmed. They come in because they want the full spectrum of their brains back. That changes our job as booksellers."

Joel Pinckney@jpinckney.bsky.social · last wk.

New one today for @defector.com: in the wake of the most recent declaration of reading's demise, I was curious what booksellers, almost always ignored by the post-literate prognosticators, made of such claims. Here's what they told me:

PEN America@penamerica.bsky.social · last wk.

Public libraries in the US are “at breaking point” because of an onslaught of political interference, harassment and ideological censorship, says a new PEN America report. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... via @richlusc.bsky.social in @theguardian.com

US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds

PEN America study details verbal and physical threats to librarians, funding cuts and proliferation of book bans

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Featuring @dorothyproject.bsky.social, @schaffnerpress.bsky.social, @deepvellum.bsky.social, @regalhouse.bsky.social, @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social, @tupelopress.bsky.social, @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social, and more indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the…

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ann-christin kumm@gegenschreiben.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Lately I've been thinking a lot about landscape painting and literature, and perhaps as an extension of this I have started to think through the idea of character and landscape as similar things, or at least as intimates, co-dependent." amina cain, a horse at night. on writing

biblioklept@biblioklept.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two from the Dorothy Project | Brais Lamela's What Remains + Denise Rose Hansen's Blue Sunset (Books acquired, 16 Aug. 2027) biblioklept.org/2026/08/27/t...

Two from the Dorothy Project | Brais Lamela’s What Remains + Denise Rose Hansen’s Blue Sunset (Books acquired, 16 Aug. 2027)

Two new titles this October from indie powerhouse Dorothy: What Remains by Brais Lamela (in translation by Jacob Rogers) and Denise Rose Hansen’s Blue Sunset. Here’s Dorothy’s des…

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝@jacqbetula.bsky.social · 2w ago

My review of 'The Endless Week' by Laura Vazquez, translated by Alex Niemi, published by @dorothyproject.bsky.social is now available to read online. Many thanks to @fallowmedia.bsky.social fallowmedia.com/reviews/2026...

Laura Vazquez – The Endless Week | Fallow Media

Laura Vazquez's defiantly diffuse novel makes us constantly aware of how vulnerable to pain our soft bodies are, and how much our freedom is at the behest of others.

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Wallace Polsom@wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 3w ago

Recent arrival at our house: WHO WAS CHANGED AND WHO WAS DEAD by Barbara Comyns, first published in England in 1954. Read (and very much enjoyed) THE VET’S DAUGHTER many years ago in a durable Virago edition. Really not sure why I never read more by Comyns. But that is about to change.

Barbara Comyns, WHO WAS CHANGED AND WHO WAS DEAD (Dorothy, 2025; fourth printing), with cover art by Yelena Bryksenkova. First published in England in 1954.BACK COVER: This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, "quacking their approval" as they sail around the room. "What about my rose beds?" demands Grandmother Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a bunch. Then the miller drowns himself... then the butcher slits his throat... and a series of gruesome deaths plagues the villagers. The newspaper asks, "Who will be smitten by this fatal madness next?" Through it all, Comyns's unique voice weaves a text as wonderful as it is horrible, as beautiful as it is cruel. Originally published in England in 1954, this "over-looked small masterpiece" is a twisted, tragicomic gem. Read it and encounter what Graham Greene called "the strange off-beat talent of Miss Comyns and that innocent eye which observes with childlike simplicity the most fantastic or most ominous occurrence."
Dorothy, a publishing project@dorothyproject.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friends, book reviews are drying up. We all know this. But it's worth repeating. Advance reviews we used to (gratefully!) count on are no longer a given; we're not getting them. Newspapers where intrepid reviewers used to talk about our books . . . well, you know. PLEASE, if you read our books . . .