The Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival has its headliners! Join Hanif Abdurraqib, Jamila Woods, and so many other great artists this July 10th-12th in beautiful Dallas. Tickets available now: www.deepvellum.org/festival
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New from the Dalkey Archive Press Scholarly Series — THE GINGER MAN LETTERS, a collection of JP Donleavy’s correspondence with the Trinity College friends who inspired his controversial bestselling novel, edited by Bill Dunn!
New from Dalkey Archive Press — CHERNOBYL PRAYER, by Svetlana Alexievich, a definitive new translation by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait of the best-selling book ever published by Dalkey!
New from Deep Vellum — PINK TONGUE OUT, BLIND CAT, a new poetry collection by Colombian poet María Paz Guerrero, translated by National Book Award Winner Robin Myers! Modern lyric with the cadence of salsa music.
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi’s TERROR COUNTER “acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.” Read poetry from @deepvellum.bsky.social for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth! store.deepvellum.org/products/ter...
TERROR COUNTER
By Fargo Nissim Tbakhi TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of…
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The inaugural Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival is coming to Dallas July 10th-12th, with stages and venues throughout the Deep Ellum neighborhood. Full press release in comments!
From one of Colombia’s most innovative modern poets, María Paz Guerrero’s collection PINK TONGUE OUT, BLIND CAT is filled with sinuous verses on the human experience told in a cadence akin to salsa music. Translated by the incomparable Robin Myers!
We are thrilled to announce that “North Sun; Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther” by Ethan Rutherford has won the 2026 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters!
This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop. futurism.com/artificial-i...
BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI
Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.
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it’s been said many times, but New York’s hottest club really is the McNally Jackson Seaport location
Deep Vellum@deepvellum.bsky.social · 5mo agoTHE BEGINNINGS is going on tour! Catch Max Lawton and an incredible lineup of friends in NYC, SF, and LA this April!
The latest edition of The Tunnel Reader Newsletter, featuring the one and only John Darnielle of @themountaingoats@bsky.social, is in your inbox now!
Coming to your inboxes this Wednesday, a very special edition of THE TUNNEL NEWSLETTER featuring John Darnielle of @themountaingoats.bsky.social — Sign-up here: signup.e2ma.net/signup/2012948/1918054
The great Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes GCSE has passed away at the age of 83. Antunes died in Lisbon, the city where he was born, the site of his psychiatric practice, and the setting for many of his 30+ works. Portugal has declared a national day of mourning.
Svetislav Basara, hailed as Serbia’s most influential living writer, explores sanity and insanity, truth and untruth in this unforgettable deconstruction of the Soviet psyche. Pre-order today: dalkeyarchive.store/products/ris...
Pound-for-pound the greatest living writer in Portuguese. Celebrate the Formentor today and place your bets on the Nobel tomorrow!
Dalkey Archive@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 5mo agoAn enormous congratulations to longtime Dalkey Archive Press author Gonçalo M. Tavares, WINNER of the 2026 Formentor Prize for Literature!
"Watching him brandish his chatroom Darwinism was like watching a grizzly bear attempt to eat a plate of grapes with chopsticks."
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 6mo ago"Approaching Yarvin as a 'political philosopher' is approximately as helpful as approaching Jerry Springer as a moral theorist. One comes away with the sense that the joke is only ever on oneself for trying to get to the bottom of him in such terms." hedgehogreview.com/issues/place...
Fair-minded review of a serious work! The Beginnings is a vast experiment in phenomenological writing, structured like life itself, if we’re lucky — 85% murky opacity (though always artfully wrought), 15% lyrical illumination. May all experimental literature fare so well in the trades!
Deep Vellum@deepvellum.bsky.social · 6mo ago@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Antonio Moresco's THE BEGINNINGS "a towering absurdist work" -- we'll take it! Read the full review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9781646053957
Rodrigo Hasbún and Lily Meyer are going on tour! Catch them in Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, NYC, or Pittsburg — and don’t forget to order your copy of THE INVISIBLE YEARS (out 2.24.26)!
Pour yourself a decaf coffee (or something stronger) and listen to Michael Silverblatt chat about the legacy of Oulipo some of its key members — Jacques Roubaud, Ian Monk, Daniel Levin Becker, Marcel Bénabou, Anne F. Garréta and Hervé Le Tellier. www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...
An Oulipo Mini-Anthology | KCRW
Jacques Roubaud, Ian Monk, Daniel Levin Becker, Marcel Bénabou, Anne F. Garréta and Hervé Le Tellier When members of the Oulipo convened in New York, Bookworm was there to record this…
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DIARY OF AN INVASION, by journalist and novelist Andrey Kurkov (author of GREY BEES), will soon be available in paperback -- featuring a new introduction from Christopher Miller, chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times!
a 1000-year vampire epic that (almost) fits in your back pocket! so excited for this one to get out into the world on 5/19
Stephen Graham Jones@stephengrahamjones.com · 6mo agoGot @itoromo.bsky.social’s new one!
some personal news. this week I’m starting work at the greatest indie press in America. I still cannot believe it’s my job now to tell you all about these incredible books
Deep Vellum@deepvellum.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe're so excited to welcome Jon Repetti to Deep Vellum as our new Marketing Director! Jon is a book marketer and literary critic whose work has appeared in LARB, Cleveland Review of Books, Review31, and elsewhere. He has a PhD in English from Princeton and grew up in NYC.
Michael Silverblatt was a great reader, a great talker, and a great champion of so many Dalkey Archive Press authors. We’ll be posting some of our favorite interviews all week. Tonight, listen to his conversation with William H. Gass about “The Tunnel”: www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...
William H. Gass: The Tunnel | KCRW
Author William H. Gass discusses the evolution and style of his thirty-years-in-the-making new novel, finally published this month.
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Finished reading this & (to state the obvious) it's highly recommended. The discussion of theme is especially valuable. I also v. much enjoy the image of high school English as the separated fraternal twin of university literary studies.
Alexander Manshel@manshel.bsky.social · 6mo agoAs some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
THE BEGINNINGS by Antonio Moresco, translated by Max Lawton is available for preorder! You can preorder THE BEGINNINGS, or the whole trilogy at store.deepvellum.org. THE BEGINNINGS will be published on March 24, 2026.
i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)
ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Scenes from a city under siege
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I wrote about Tatiana Tibuleac’s “The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes,” an absolutely astounding little novel that’s finally been translated into English after selling out in 17 other languages, for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/tatiana-tibu...
Fingering His Wounds: On Tatiana Tibuleac’s "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" - Cleveland Review of Books
Thus the three dominant justifications of art in our time, as a strategy of self-knowledge, as means of therapy, as a road to empathy, are thrown out with the soiled bathwater.
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