Dorothy, a publishing project

also read nearly a book a month for @ajbwells's great books section at the berliner mag; i think my favorite just might've been ariane koch's brilliant and beguiling little novella "overstaying": the-berliner.com/books/overstay…

Our warm congratulations to @bellevuepress, @open_letter, @Coffee_House_, McPherson & Company, @DorothyProject, @SandorfP, and @transitbooks—all longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize! republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news

"It was amazing to imagine your city was a novel, and that for you to walk around within it meant that you were in language, you were in a thinking text. I had been placed inside of something dreaming, its citizens dreaming, the novels we had all written dreaming." -Renee Gladman

@MazzySleep @Coffee_House_ 💛

Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton - Ridiculously awesome book idea & flawless execution. The essay in this should be everybody’s introduction to the genre imo

Here are some recs from my 2024 reading list!

More books I read &liked this year: Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel & TOAF; Yoko Tawada, Suggested in the Stars, trans. Margaret Mitsutani; Ibrahim Nasrallah, Palestinian, trans. @FakhreddineHuda; Willy Thayer, The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University, trans. D. Bret Leraul

Halliday got at exactly what Dorothy is up to as a press, in a way I've been trying to do for many years: "Is this a novel about [xyz]? Occasionally, yes—but mostly it is a novel about the narrator and her relationship to the world."

Today (yesterday) at @barrelhouse, Devon Halliday takes on OVERSTAYING, one of the latest from @DorothyProject. Sit a while: barrelhousemag.com/blog/koch-over…

highlighting 30 of my favorite reads of the year, divided out by category. novels are first, almost all of which were released this year.

One of my Christmas presents to myself has arrived!

Delighted to find a review of MY LESBIAN NOVEL in The Guardian this morning! "Gladman’s reading of popular romances feels so genuine, the love scene so easy a fusion of readerly and writerly delight, that another kind of novel seems possible..." theguardian.com/books/2024/dec…

Lovely to see Renee Gladman's MY LESBIAN NOVEL here! lithub.com/lit-hubs-38-fa…

Tonight!

TONIGHT!

Our episode on Ariane Koch’s Overstaying is now live! onebrightbook.com/2024/12/02/epi…

NYC friends, Damion and Emma are both brilliant translators and readers. Hope you can make it to their event tomorrow (Monday) night @mcnallyjackson Seaport!

Jen George dropped this STUNNER of a debut story collection in 2016 & has been quiet ever since. As I reread this book (for the third time), I hope to god she's quietly writing a novel.

Renee Gladman on the LARB Radio Hour talking about our reissue of TOAF alongside her newest book MY LESBIAN NOVEL! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ren…

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