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Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Visit our offices inside @deepvellumbooks
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Joined May 2013
Sphinx is now our highest-ranked title ever on @amazon's sales rankings at 11,000. Let's get this book to break 10k! http://t.co/GzXuc4OabM.
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The rumors are true: we have some BIG news! Announcing forthcoming titles translated & edited by @maxdaniellawton, with HUGE thanks to @TheUntranslated, @nordicnovellas & Douglas Suttle!.Read all about it here:
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Ten years ago, we published our first book—TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT by Carmen Boullosa, a sprawling contemporary classic. We’re thrilled to announce a special anniversary edition, translated by Samantha Schnee, with an introduction by Merve Emre ( @mervatim )
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We are saddened to share the passing of @Dalkey_Archive founder, John O'Brien. Deep Vellum, along with @chadwpost, will work to honor John's legacy by keeping his visionary catalog in stock and continuing to publish under Dalkey, now an imprint of DVP.
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Every time we have to do a new printing of Solenoid, we will add an additional 25 “help!”s.
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"After the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is Diary of an Invasion, a prescient collection of Andrey Kurkov’s writings and broadcasts from Kyiv. An important work that should be on everyone’s radar." -Michael Welch, @ChicagoRevBooks.
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Nothing on earth can prepare you for TETRA NOVA, the operatic first novel from celebrated poet Sophia Terazawa, but in this thread we will do our best:.
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Help! Help! Help! Help! Help!.
You can't post a random quote and expect people to know the book.
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SOLENOID ahoy! This Romanian surrealist masterwork is now in its third printing in the wake of its @latimesbooks Prize win and we couldn't be more proud.
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Just you, your coffee, and all 639 pages of Mircea Cărtărescu's highly-acclaimed master work of Romanian fiction, brought into English by the skilled and determined Sean Cotter. This could be your reality when SOLENOID publishes on 10/25—pre-order now!
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Deep Vellum and @Dalkey_Archive published 57(!) books this year. @deepvellumbooks has a display sharing (almost) all of our 2023 publications. Check out this amazing stack! And just wait until you see what we're cooking for the new year.
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South Korean writer and translator, Jung Young Moon, sweating profusely: “Writing is not a process of creating meaning, it is a process of destroying meaning. Which sauce was this? Vampire Hunter? I can taste the garlic.”.
Who would you like to see on Hot Ones in 2025?
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Do any of you happen to like Catalonian literature, by chance?.
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Deep Vellum is so excited to announce that we’ve been approved to receive a grant from the NEA to support our book titles and programming in 2021! .
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A starred @PublishersWkly review for the alluring and disturbing, ULTRAMARINE by Marietta Navarro (translated from the French by Eve Hill-Agnus) !!!!
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Translators & editors: submissions are open for The Best Literary Translations 2025!.The inaugural volume, BLT24, is coming out in April, and we're already at work on Volume 2. We want to see what you published this year! Spread the word!.
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Éditeur. Traducteur. Libraire. Chevalier!.Last night in Dallas, our founder & publisher @willevans was made a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, “for being such a great ambassador for French-speaking literature in the US.” Félicitations, Will! 🇫🇷🎖️🫡
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SOLENOID.WINNER of the @DublinLitAward!!! 🖤Congratulations, Mircea and Sean! Thank you to the judges for selecting it, to the Cluj county library in Romania for nominating it, to @DublinCityofLit & Dublin City libraries for presenting the award.
And the winner is. Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter! 🏆🥳 . Congratulations to all involved in bringing this incredible story to life. Solenoid was nominated by Octavian Goga, Cluj County Library and published by @deepvellum ✨
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#10Years10Books You knew it was coming: SOLENOID, by Mircea Cărtărescu & tr. Sean Cotter. Shoutout @TheUntranslated here, along with @archipelagobks, @RomaniaNY, and too many bookstores to tag. And a special thanks to readers like you, who make books like this possible. 1/
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It’s here! Featuring fiction, poetry, memoir; debut authors and returning favorites; the first entry in our Best Literary Translations anthology series; and our second-ever kids’ book. Our coming season’s catalog is available for you to peruse.
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NEWS: Venerable small press @FumdEstampa joins the Deep Vellum family in 2025, and we couldn't be more excited!. Check out the full press release on our website:.
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what if… one of our authors… won a Nobel prize . aha ha, just kidding. unless. ? 😳.
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Happy pub day to CARAPACE DANCER / DECHE BITOOPE / EL DORSO DEL CANGREJO!. This is an astonishing book, presented in a rare tri-lingual edition, presenting the text in English, Spanish, and Didxazá, an endangered form of Zapotec spoken on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
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!!!!!.
what if… one of our authors… won a Nobel prize . aha ha, just kidding. unless. ? 😳.
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A bit of news: we've acquired @PhonemeMedia and @AStrangeObject, and will be expanding our publishing scope to include non-translated works in English. We can't wait to show you what we've been working on.
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Thoroughly exciting meeting today with Sean Cotter, translator of SOLENOID! Big things coming in late 2022.
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wait.
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Big day for Kurdish literature: pub day for two books by Farhad Pirbal! This marks the English-language début of the "poète maudit" of Kurdistan.
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Andrey Kurkov's GREY BEES (trans. @BorisDralyuk) is back in stock at @deepvellumbooks and ready to ship from our website to anywhere in the world. Discover this essential and entrancing Ukrainian voice for yourself!
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It all started, as so many great things do, with a speech from @willevans, a party at @WildDetectives, and one amazing book. Ten years and dozens of books later, Deep Vellum has grown more than we could have ever imagined!
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This week, the venerable @beyondzeropod is joined by @maxdaniellawton and @nordicnovellas to discuss SCHATTENFROH—the great dark book of the German 21st century.
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Huge congrats to our founder, @willevans, on being inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters (@texas_letters) this weekend! We're so proud to be part of Texas's thriving and growing literary legacy.
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HORCYNUS ORCA.BREACHING 2029.
And thus have I signed away a great many years of my earthly existence. I couldn’t be happier to be translating the eternally legendary HORCYNUS ORCA into English!! With eternal thanks to the king @willevans
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it's always time.
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We are so excited to bring this strange, otherworldly book to readers of English. PLASMAS by Céline Minard, translated by @annabel_l_kim, is available now!.
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Big news: @PENamerica grows PEN Across America with a Dallas/Fort Worth chapter, headed by @SanderiaFaye and our own @willevans! . via @dallasnews .
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We are so proud to share that Deep Vellum has been approved for a $50,000 award as part of the @NEAarts CARES Act. Thanks to this support, we are able to continue reliably funding translators, authors, designers, and our staff as we navigate the difficulties of COVID-19.
The $44.5 million CARES Act funding announced today will preserve jobs and support essential operations at 855 arts organizations across the nation
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Coming this spooky season: an uncanny novella informed by the paranoia of horror films, by @textplusimage. The Haunted Screen blends the madness & obsession of academia with a dark current of psychological mystery. 🫳 Reach out to publicity@ deepvellum .org to request a galley!
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Happy SOLENOID day to all who celebrate! This tome of the fall is officially in the world with us and we couldn't be more excited. Join Sean Cotter in his exploration of Mircea Cărtărescu's masterwork, an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.
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.@Dalkey_Archive founder John O'Brien made a profound, visionary mark on literature. Deep Vellum will work w/ @chadwpost as editorial consultant to keep @Dalkey_Archive in readers' hands around the world & foster a community for experimental literature.
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Advance copies are in for Ethan Rutherford’s NORTH SUN, the new novel by “one of our great artists of catastrophe” (—Laura van den Berg)
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We've got something very special coming down the pipe for all you SOLENOID fans! Extended hint:."A Solenoid Reader embodies two senses: it is both “a reader,” a collection of companion texts, as well as a personification, a demonstration of what Solenoid’s readers do."
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It still doesn't quite feel real! We're so proud to have published GREEY BEES and so happy for Andrey Kurkov and @BorisDralyuk. To win the @bookcritics' inaugural translation prize is an honor this author and book both fully deserve.
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This would be enough to get us to pre-order the book if we weren’t the publisher.
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Anne Garréta’s Not One Day won the #AlbertinePrize!!!!! Here’s Lydia Davis presenting the award to Anne & the book’s translator @EmKateRam & Anne discussing the book!
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All I'm going to say is that soon literary Twitter is going to explode. It's coming whether you're ready or not😎.
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First in our new #10Years10Books series, highlighting the books that got us where we are, and the support that makes it all happen. First up: TEXAS by @carmenboullosa, tr. @samanthaschnee — our first ever book!. Help support our mission: #NTXGivingDay2023
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#WITMonth Spotlight: THE BLUE BOOK OF NEBO.Originally in Welsh, @ManonSteffanRos adapted this tender story to English herself. Her strong bond with the text is evident in careful verbiage, depth of characters, and historical and linguistic elements of Wales preserved throughout.
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What a year Deep Vellum has had. We published our 40th Deep Vellum title, acquired two new imprints (thereby doubling the size of our catalog), and officially expanded our mission to include English-language authors.
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Come get your galleys! With the depths of winter upon us, maybe you're a reviewer or bookseller ready to start looking forward to the literary blooms of spring. We've got ARCs for lots of great upcoming titles available now, so reach out if you want to get in on the hype.
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Deep Vellum is seeking a part-time Marketing Coordinator!.View the full job description and application details:
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At the perfect intersection of our interests, a Peruvian shoegaze band called “Solenoide” just released their first album, and it is based on—you guessed it—the works of Mircea Cartarescu:.
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We're so excited to reveal the cover for the newest by author-translator duo Anne Garréta and @EmKateRam! Domestic drama, Oulipian nursery rhyme, & all the language-play your heart can handle. Cover by Marina Drukman. Coming 4/21/21. Preorder today!.
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Happy publication day to FREEDOM HOUSE! This amazing full-length debut by @earthtokb is officially in the world today and we couldn't be more thrilled.
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Readers’ bank accounts: $1400.Readers: Bring me your deepest vellum.
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"What can we do? What efforts of resistance can we enact?. I started Deep Vellum with the maybe naïve belief that reading and writing are revolutionary acts that can and should change the world." -@willevans, Founder & Director, Deep Vellum Bookstore and Publishing
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We're hiring! Deep Vellum is seeking a Publicity and Programming Manager to join our Marketing team. Find full position details and application information below:.
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Deep Vellum could not be more thrilled to announce that RECITAL OF THE DARK VERSES by Luis Felipe Fabre, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, has won the 2024 @qssi_ny Translation Prize!. Read the full press release:.
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Obsessed with the contents of today’s mail. Galleys of MIRACULOUS TRUE HISTORY and GREY BEES alongside a new Machado de Assis from @Dalkey_Archive. Glory. Booksellers/reviewers, hit us up for any of these!
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pov you’re the new social media guy and you received this care package from @deepvellumbooks… where do you start?
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Good choices across the board (especially the middle).
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The Sergio Pitol coffee at the Hotel Bristol in Warsaw, where he lived 1963-1966, & where he‘d meet Polish authors he translated, such as Jerzy Andrzewjewski. This Warsaw chapter in his life is recounted in “The Gates of Paradise” chapter in The Art of Flight, tr. by @unpoetaloco
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Pretty sure this is first time Solenoid has been described as “cozy”.
Lice infestations aside, Solenoid is sort of a cozy read. For me it’s the length, which envelops rather than overwhelms, and the schoolteacher/aspiring-novelist narrator, a very familiar type.
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SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE.It's Small Business Saturday! We're launching our holiday sale with gift recommendations for all the readers in your life. Shop our recs and get 30% off 3 books, or 40% off 4 or more. Happy reading & happy holidays! Read more here:
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Honored to publish the voices of Ukraine's literary heritage mentioned in this @nytimes article, from forthcoming anthology LOVE IN DEFIANCE OF PAIN to Kurkov's GREY BEES (tr. @BorisDralyuk) and Zhadan's VOROSHILOVGRAD (tr. Costigan-Humes, Wheeler).
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Social media is an endless doomscroll right now, but don't forget to breathe deep, hold your friends and family close, read good books, and keep supporting the folks around you.
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Did you catch SOLENOID in the @FT's Best Books of 2022 list? Or maybe you checked out @BenHooyman's review in @LAReviewofBooks? Or are you REALLY dedicated and tuned in to the @wastemailing TWO HOUR review on YouTube? This is one book you definitely won't be reading alone!
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Typically, when one does a “cover reveal” for a book, the back cover of the book is not included in the fanfare. However, there is nothing typical about TETRA NOVA, the frenetic and endlessly inventive debut novel from poet Sophia Terazawa. So with that in mind….
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What a weekend! It was so amazing to get to have (almost) all our team in one place at our first annual staff bonding weekend. Deep Vellum is growing fast with the help of amazing minds from all across the country, and getting to sip coffee all together in Dallas was a joy.
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Happy International Translation Day! Thanks to the wonderful work of our translators, our catalog represents work from over 30 languages. #ITD2019 #translatorlove
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We're hiring a Publicity Director! Come join our marketing & publicity team, and help us grow Deep Vellum & @dalkeyarchive's publicity footprint!. More details:.
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If you would like a preview of what it’s like to read SCHATTENFROH, here is author Michael Lentz reading some of his other work at the Klang Farben Text poetry festival:
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The folks at @PENamerica are putting on a vital conversation with Ukrainian writers March 3. We'll be there listening in, and we're proud to be publishing Andrey Kurkov's GREY BEES this year.
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Sergio Pitol has died :( RIP to the legend. We are honored to be his first publisher in English w/ @unpoetaloco as his translator. Read his Trilogy of Memory The Magician of Vienna is nominated for the Best Translated Book Award!.
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Tetra Nova features dancing raccoons, and we can guarantee you’ve never read anything else like it. February 4th.
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THE VILLAIN'S DANCE is on the @nationalbook Award longlist! Félicitations to Fiston Mwanza Mujila & @rolandglasser!!!.
We are thrilled to announce the 2024 National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature! | @NewYorker .
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Are you a Texas writer impacted by COVID-19? Today, Deep Vellum is proud to announce that we are launching the Deep Vellum Emergency Fund for Texas Literary Artists (Round 1 deadline June 1). Press release and application below:.
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When we say we couldn’t do this without y’all, we mean it. Thank you for your orders, your subscriptions, your notes; you’re what keeps us going! ❤️
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Lina Meruane w/ Argentina's best writers: Samanta Schweblin & Mariana Enríquez after their @PENworldvoices panel @mcnallyjackson last night
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SO honored to share that Fowzia Karimi's ABOVE US THE MILKY WAY is the Fiction Discovery Prize Winner for the 2020 @WritersLeague Book Awards. This novel follows a family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland of Afghanistan, leaving behind everything and everyone familiar.
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Speaking of Juan Rulfo, who'd turn 100 in 2017, here's his long lost novel The Golden Cockerel finally in English,trans. Douglas Weatherford
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Congratulations to Ananda Devi & her marvelous translator @J_Zuckerman on winning the @CLMPorg #FirecrackerAwards2017 for Fiction!!
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Lydia from the very good band Feeble Little Horse, wearing our baseball hat in Mexico City this past weekend
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From Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia’s greatest living absurdist writer and New York Times bestseller, and translator @Marian51: traditional family drama meets burlesque social satire, enveloped in a Bollywood soap-opera plot. Coming in April!.
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If you're doing the #SealeyChallenge or looking for new and fresh options for #WomenInTranslationMonth, you know we've got you!
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Would love to read a 60-page novella about him.
One of the names for a Jack O'Lantern in Irish is Liam na Lasóige (Liam with the little flame).
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We are so proud to publish an incredible novel today: The Ancestry of Objects, by @tatianaryckman. At once intensely sensory and urgently erotic, The Ancestry of Objects parses the multiplicity of selves who become a part of us as we push to survive.
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10 Books That Play With Gender In Awesome Ways (feat. Sphinx!!) http://t.co/vfGIZFVh4a via @bustle.
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Hi friends. 30% off all our backlist.50% off when you buy two books or more . Discount applies automatically in the ol' cart now through Aug 1. Go ham!.
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Happy pub day to THE BOOK OF EVE by @carmenboullosa, trans. @samanthaschnee! A worthy addition to the Boullosa/Schnee DV canon, this new novel rebuilds one of history's most influential texts in a revolutionary light.
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