4/10/2023 0 Comments Deep vellum booksNicolás Kanellos of the University of Houston & Arte Publico Press, plus Juan Villoro has a piece on Sergio Pitol, and Rafael Lemus reviews Sergio Pitol‘s The Art of Flight. Speaking of Latin American literature from before, pick up the new issue of REVIEW: Literature and Arts of the Americas (issue #91), published by the Literature Department at the Americas Society, for a remarkable review of Carmen Boullosa‘s Texas: The Great Theft by the legendary Dr. So if you’re an indie publisher, or live in Texas and make awesome chapbooks or zines, get in touch with us & send us some books so we can have you in stock for our grand opening! Altogether it will stock 2,000–3,000 books. Besides Deep Vellum’s books, the store will stock only indie-published titles, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, handmade books and literary journals and magazines, with an emphasis on translation. Located in a 900-square-foot space at 3000 Commerce St., according to the Dallas Morning News. ![]() On December 9th we’re throwing a housewarming & bookstore launch party!! Come check out the future of literary Dallas:Ībout Deep Vellum Books, our bookstore offshoot: Word started coming out this past week that we’re opening a bookstore in our new office space in Deep Ellum! Check out pieces in the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com, Central Track, and Shelf Awareness. Join us, January 5th, at Deep Vellum Books in Dallas, and then on January 6th at Brazos Bookstore in Houston!! In other cool news, the translator of Target in the Night, Sergio Waisman, will be in Texas in early January, and we are hosting the inaugural Deep Vellum Book Club in our new bookstore (more on that below), where Sergio will discuss the inner workings of this amazing novel. Greatest living writer in Argentina, meet your new favorite author, who mixes the tropes and structures of detective and noir genres with profound, deep, dark political and philosophical resonance: Piglia is a master, one of the all time greats, and won the 2015 Formentor Prize-previously awarded to Borges, Gombrowicz, Beckett, Vila-Matas, Marías, Goytisolo…you get the idea-for his lifetime’s contribution to literature. ![]() If you love Latin American literature, from Bolaño to Borges, Boullosa to Pitol, Onetti to Arlt, Labbé to Fernandez, you gotta get your hands on this Piglia! Then read his older works available in English, like Artificial Respiration, The Absent City (both from Duke University Press) Assumed Name (Latin American Literary Review Press), and Money to Burn (Granta). Target in the Night, our tenth book, came out last Tuesday, the same day NPR Books ran a fantastic glowing review of the novel, written by Michael Schaub. Ricardo Piglia’s Target in the Night is out now!
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