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St. Louis-based press distributed by New York Review Books. Fiction & near fiction. Two books every Fall. Renee Gladman. Leonora Carrington. Cristina Rivera Garza. Caren Beilin. Amina Cain. Giada Scodellaro. Pip Adam. Kate Briggs. Etc. dorothyproject.com
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi
Tomorrow! Toronto! Type!
Lana Lin will be in Toronto on Thursday, November 27!
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tomorrow! Toronto! Type!
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200 years of French lit!
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November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Jewels of fairytales. My first encounter with Carrington; really appreciated the semi-chronological structure. Devoured it, appropriately.
October 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Jewels of fairytales. My first encounter with Carrington; really appreciated the semi-chronological structure. Devoured it, appropriately.
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One of the many many shots we got on an enchanted morning of really tiny, 'sparrow sized' Eurasian Pygmy Owl in #Slovenia a few weeks ago.
#Birds #BirdsSeenin2025 #Owls #inthewoods #smallones #wildlifephotograohy #getoutside #nature #BirdTherapy #earthcapture
#Birds #BirdsSeenin2025 #Owls #inthewoods #smallones #wildlifephotograohy #getoutside #nature #BirdTherapy #earthcapture
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
One of the many many shots we got on an enchanted morning of really tiny, 'sparrow sized' Eurasian Pygmy Owl in #Slovenia a few weeks ago.
#Birds #BirdsSeenin2025 #Owls #inthewoods #smallones #wildlifephotograohy #getoutside #nature #BirdTherapy #earthcapture
#Birds #BirdsSeenin2025 #Owls #inthewoods #smallones #wildlifephotograohy #getoutside #nature #BirdTherapy #earthcapture
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So I just started reading Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, and her Ravicka books are incredibly timely and disorienting in a nourishing way.
_You must have been lost in my city for as long as you can remember. Could this building ever serve you?_
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
So I just started reading Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, and her Ravicka books are incredibly timely and disorienting in a nourishing way.
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In one week!
Lana Lin will be in Toronto on Thursday, November 27!
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In one week!
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"THE ENDLESS WEEK is dark and deep, a pool of black ink."
Walker Rutter-Bowman with a fantastic review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post!
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Walker Rutter-Bowman with a fantastic review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post!
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Review | ‘The Endless Week’ is an unusually feral and lovely novel
In Laura Vazquez’s deeply strange book, a chronically online teenage poet goes on a quest to find his mother.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"THE ENDLESS WEEK is dark and deep, a pool of black ink."
Walker Rutter-Bowman with a fantastic review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Walker Rutter-Bowman with a fantastic review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
In one week!
Lana Lin will be in Toronto on Thursday, November 27!
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In one week!
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#ClipOfTheDay: In this Books Are Magic event, Lana Lin reads from her book The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam and discusses how she uses both Gertrude Stein and Audre Lorde’s genre-bending approaches to autobiography in order to highlight Asian diasporic narratives. at.pw.org/LanaLin
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#ClipOfTheDay: In this Books Are Magic event, Lana Lin reads from her book The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam and discusses how she uses both Gertrude Stein and Audre Lorde’s genre-bending approaches to autobiography in order to highlight Asian diasporic narratives. at.pw.org/LanaLin
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Laura Vazquez's answers to these questions about tTHE ENDLESS WEEK are wonderful, definitely worth scrolling all the way down! With thanks to @electricliterature.com
electricliterature.com/3-debut-nove...
electricliterature.com/3-debut-nove...
3 Debut Novelists Discuss Interweaving Narrative Voices - Electric Literature
E.Y. Zhao, Sam Sussman, and Laura Vazquez on play, grief, and ego in their first novels
electricliterature.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Laura Vazquez's answers to these questions about tTHE ENDLESS WEEK are wonderful, definitely worth scrolling all the way down! With thanks to @electricliterature.com
electricliterature.com/3-debut-nove...
electricliterature.com/3-debut-nove...
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“I treated the translation of this novel like a poem, in that I let the strangeness wash over me and didn’t try to think too hard about making things ‘make sense.’”
ALTA member Alex Niemi and Sarah Viren discuss Niemi's translation process and the rhythm of language. At Lit Hub:
ALTA member Alex Niemi and Sarah Viren discuss Niemi's translation process and the rhythm of language. At Lit Hub:
Alex Niemi on the Process of Translation and the Rhythm of Language
I’ve known Alex Niemi since 2012, when we both started a graduate program in literary translation at the University of Iowa. We co-edited our program’s literary translation journal, Exchanges, and …
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October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“I treated the translation of this novel like a poem, in that I let the strangeness wash over me and didn’t try to think too hard about making things ‘make sense.’”
ALTA member Alex Niemi and Sarah Viren discuss Niemi's translation process and the rhythm of language. At Lit Hub:
ALTA member Alex Niemi and Sarah Viren discuss Niemi's translation process and the rhythm of language. At Lit Hub:
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Alex Niemi on "sonic logic" and translating Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK!
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Alex Niemi: On Novels by Poets, the Hyper-Reality of the Internet, and the Importance of Sonic Suspense in Her Translation of Laura Vazquez’s Novel ‘The Endless Week’ — Write or Die Magazine
Corinne Cordasco-Pak interviews Alex Niemi about her translation of Laura Vasquez's novel 'The Endless Week'!
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November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Alex Niemi on "sonic logic" and translating Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK!
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E.Y. Zhao, author of Underspin; Sam Sussman, author of Boy from the North Country; and Laura Vazquez, author of The Endless Week are our craft interview debut novelists. See some of their best writing strats in our latest interview with Kyla D. Walker!
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3 Debut Novelists Discuss Interweaving Narrative Voices - Electric Literature
E.Y. Zhao, Sam Sussman, and Laura Vazquez on play, grief, and ego in their first novels
electricliterature.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
E.Y. Zhao, author of Underspin; Sam Sussman, author of Boy from the North Country; and Laura Vazquez, author of The Endless Week are our craft interview debut novelists. See some of their best writing strats in our latest interview with Kyla D. Walker!
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Anyway this week I’ve been reading two memoirs that are pleasurable to read, written by people who know how to write, and not about affairs with misshapen freaks
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Anyway this week I’ve been reading two memoirs that are pleasurable to read, written by people who know how to write, and not about affairs with misshapen freaks
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Lana Lin on the making of the cover of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM (and much more), over at @literaryhub.bsky.social!
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A New Autobiography: On Re-Envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover
During the pre-vaccine summer of 2020, I sat behind a long wooden table that my partner, H. Lan Thao Lam, had recently installed for me across from the fireplace in a former sawmill to which we had…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Lana Lin on the making of the cover of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM (and much more), over at @literaryhub.bsky.social!
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lithub.com/a-new-autobi...
Lana Lin on the making of the cover of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM (and much more), over at @literaryhub.bsky.social!
lithub.com/a-new-autobi...
lithub.com/a-new-autobi...
A New Autobiography: On Re-Envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover
During the pre-vaccine summer of 2020, I sat behind a long wooden table that my partner, H. Lan Thao Lam, had recently installed for me across from the fireplace in a former sawmill to which we had…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Lana Lin on the making of the cover of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM (and much more), over at @literaryhub.bsky.social!
lithub.com/a-new-autobi...
lithub.com/a-new-autobi...
Alex Niemi on "sonic logic" and translating Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK!
writeordiemag.com/author-inter...
writeordiemag.com/author-inter...
Alex Niemi: On Novels by Poets, the Hyper-Reality of the Internet, and the Importance of Sonic Suspense in Her Translation of Laura Vazquez’s Novel ‘The Endless Week’ — Write or Die Magazine
Corinne Cordasco-Pak interviews Alex Niemi about her translation of Laura Vasquez's novel 'The Endless Week'!
writeordiemag.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Alex Niemi on "sonic logic" and translating Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK!
writeordiemag.com/author-inter...
writeordiemag.com/author-inter...
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“Architects transform their thoughts into images, and these images are transformed into rooms, buildings, houses, parks, cities, roads. You think you’re walking down a street, but you’re walking in the thoughts of a stranger.”
- Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week trans. Alex Niemi
- Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week trans. Alex Niemi
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“Architects transform their thoughts into images, and these images are transformed into rooms, buildings, houses, parks, cities, roads. You think you’re walking down a street, but you’re walking in the thoughts of a stranger.”
- Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week trans. Alex Niemi
- Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week trans. Alex Niemi
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OMG YOU CAN BUY @dorothyproject.bsky.social BOOKS AT THE NYRB WEBSITE AND THEY ARE ALSO ON SALE !!!!!! !!!!!!!!
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
OMG YOU CAN BUY @dorothyproject.bsky.social BOOKS AT THE NYRB WEBSITE AND THEY ARE ALSO ON SALE !!!!!! !!!!!!!!
Laura Vazquez's answers to these questions about tTHE ENDLESS WEEK are wonderful, definitely worth scrolling all the way down! With thanks to @electricliterature.com
electricliterature.com/3-debut-nove...
electricliterature.com/3-debut-nove...
3 Debut Novelists Discuss Interweaving Narrative Voices - Electric Literature
E.Y. Zhao, Sam Sussman, and Laura Vazquez on play, grief, and ego in their first novels
electricliterature.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Laura Vazquez's answers to these questions about tTHE ENDLESS WEEK are wonderful, definitely worth scrolling all the way down! With thanks to @electricliterature.com
electricliterature.com/3-debut-nove...
electricliterature.com/3-debut-nove...
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renee gladman is funny cause shes kind of the best writer of all time and yet it’s difficult to summarize her work in any way other than the blandest bodies and spaces talk
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
renee gladman is funny cause shes kind of the best writer of all time and yet it’s difficult to summarize her work in any way other than the blandest bodies and spaces talk
Two Dorothy authors here . . . 👀
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November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Two Dorothy authors here . . . 👀
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Pair of charmingly grumpy owls out on skates for winter fun. Have even brought along a snack! By Adriaen van de Venne, who died (alas!) on this day 1662.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Pair of charmingly grumpy owls out on skates for winter fun. Have even brought along a snack! By Adriaen van de Venne, who died (alas!) on this day 1662.
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Between editing and reorganizing bookshelves, I have finished two books for #Novellavember! These two are very different, but I was delighted by both!
November 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Between editing and reorganizing bookshelves, I have finished two books for #Novellavember! These two are very different, but I was delighted by both!