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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
From the jury statement: “Reading or listening to Fiston Mwanza Mujila perform leads to the fundamental questions of our existence and our coexistence in all our constructedness from hope, dream, love, hubris, violence and history.”
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Fiston Mwanza Mujila—author Deep Vellum titles TRAM 83, THE VILLAIN’S DANCE, THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF DREAMS, and THE RIVER IN THE BELLY—has received the 2026 Erich Fried Prize, one of Austria’s most prestigious literary awards. Read about it here: thebritishblacklist.co.uk/out-of-afric...
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Unbelievable recognition for this remarkable author & novel!
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Durham, NC tomorrow back at dear old Duke!!
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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...
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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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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
North Sun is @deepvellum.bsky.social’s first ever longlisted PEN/Hemingway title!! Congratulations to all the nominated writers & publishers supporting debut authors!
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Join me for 3 events in Bucharest this week: THU w/ Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu & Lidia Bodea of Humanitas @ Cişmigiu; FRI Frame10 series w/Monica Cure & Vlad Niculescu @ Rezidența9; SAT l book launch for Tatiana Țîbuleac’s The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes w/ Monica Cure & Paula Erizanu @ Cartureşti Verona
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Highly recommend my old friend @jacobsilverman.com reading his own GILDED RAGE for some real stomach-churning rage-inducing fun for those of us actively interested in making the world a better place, counter to the anti-heroes of this book libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Gilded Rage Audiobook on Libro.fm
Bloomsbury presents Gilded Rage written and read by Jacob SilvermanA searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and ...
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Obama includes NORTH SUN as one of his favorite books of 2025! Huge honor for Ethan Rutherford, editor extraordinaire Jill Meyers, & for Deep Vellum, the only small publisher on this list, the only nonprofit publisher on this list!! @deepvellum.bsky.social
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The Ruins! Congratulations to Ye Hui & his remarkable translator, Dong Li! We published this remarkable book in a beautiful bilingual edition. Chinese metaphysical poetry forever!! @deepvellum.bsky.social
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Schattenfroh is a Washington Post cover model!! @maxlawton.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @theuntranslated.bsky.social
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Dan Sinykin does Dallas!! I teach & always recommend his books Big Fiction & Close Reading in the 21st Century, teach & am inspired the unique work of the Post45 Data Collective, & stoked he’s Director of Graduate Studies at my beloved alma mater Emory’s English Dept!! @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
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Ito Romo @itoromo.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
*Filth Eaters* listed on *Publishers Weekly* Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Literary Fiction. Super happy. Thanks for preordering. If you’d like to: link in comments or wherever you buy your books! Gracias, @deepvellum.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
You've been waiting. The news is here. Deep Vellum is honored to announce the publication of Antonio Moresco's seminal trilogy, GAMES OF ETERNITY, translated by Max Lawton. THE BEGINNINGS will be published on March 24, 2026 and all three books are available for preorder on our website now.
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
What a stack, what a reading journey!
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This list of the best bookstores in Dallas is so beautiful, our city has grown so much in the past decade into a city with bookstores to match our incredibly diverse & engaged reading citizenry! So grateful our own little @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social is included! #LiteraryDallas forever!
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Richard Blanco @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Felicidades to my dear friend Ito Romo on his forthcoming novel FILTH EATERS—a decade in the making. A sweeping, haunting reimagining of the vampire lineage. So proud! PRE-ORDER: store.deepvellum.org/products/fil... @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @itoromo.bsky.social
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Deep Vellum & Wild Detectives annual anniversary party is back April 19-20 ft. Carmen Boullosa & Eileen Myles talking about (among other things!) the 10th anniversary ed. of TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT, the US debut of Eduardo Rabasa’s band El Gran Otro, tattoos, dancing, fun, & so much more
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
CALLING ALL BOOKSELLERS, LIBRARIANS, INFLUENCERS, ETC. We are launching a brand new newsletter to collect all the news you can use about Deep Vellum, Dalkey Archive, and Open Letter books in one easy place. Sign up for it in the post below:
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Gary Lovely @colonellovely.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Stoked to talk translated lit in Iowa with @willevans.bsky.social & Bela Shayevich!
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Everyone knows I owe Chad Post everything & teaming up on @openletterbooks.bsky.social & @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social brings his vision into a publishing house centered on international literature & to connect these books with readers who, like me, are starving for that elusive something MORE
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Every day of my life I am grateful for readers like @theuntranslated.bsky.social who build a reading community through literature, & to madmen like @maxlawton.bsky.social & @nordicnovellas.bsky.social who bring books, foreign to me, into a language I can understand, & in turn share with the world
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Fernando A. Flores presents his new BROTHER BRONTË out from FSG/MCD tonight at Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
SCHATTENFROH A Requiem August, 2025
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The winner is Eve Hill-Agnus' translation of Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro. Coming from @deepvellum.bsky.social This is an award that specifically funds a translation, the book is coming in March and it looks extremely up my alley as a sea-themed spooky SFF novel.
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
On the road again We just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is discussing literature with our friends And we can't wait to get on the road again (we just made that up) DEEP VELLUM ON TOUR THIS SPRING:
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James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I wrote a letter that will accompany the English translation of SCHATTENFROH, coming this summer from @deepvellum.bsky.social
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
No surprise for those who’ve read Drew for years that this interview was so good, such a great reader, interviewer, & writer, talking about one of the great novels of our time, one I’m forever so lucky & so honored to publish
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Upcoming lit event alert: join WWB founding editor Samantha Schnee, Carmen Boullosa, and Merve Emre on 1/30 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Boullosa's "Texas: The Great Theft" (translated by Schnee). Learn more about the NYC event here! macaulay.cuny.edu/calendar-of-...
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@Macaulay Author Series – Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa | Macaulay Honors College
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Taylor Cogan @tayloracogan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My story for this week's #DeepEllum series focuses on @willevans.bsky.social of @deepvellum.bsky.social: "[Deep Ellum] attracts a diverse customer base, in every sense of the word ... The bookstore is a way to unite the neighborhood.” www.deepellumtexas.com/willevans/
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Deep Ellum People: Will Evans - Deep Ellum Texas
Will Evans: Championing Dallas as a Literary City Since 2013, Proving the Vision True Over a Decade Later.
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Carmen Boullosa @carmenboullosa.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
“Texas, The Great Theft”, 10th anniversary launch, with Merve Emre, Samantha Schnee and Carmen Boullosa, @ Macaulay Honors, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Join me for a conversation with Kaveh Akbar to discuss Martyr!, one of the most lauded & beloved books of the last year, at the Dallas Museum of Art on January 23rd! Tickets available here or hit me up! And send me question inspirations for our conversation! dma.org/programs/eve...
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
NEWS: Venerable small press Fum d’Estampa joins the Deep Vellum family in 2025, and we couldn't be more excited! Check out the full press release on our website: www.deepvellum.org/news/deep-ve...
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Deep Vellum Welcomes Fum d'Estampa! — Deep Vellum
Deep Vellum Publishing could not be more thrilled to announce that we have acquired Fum d’Estampa, a British small press founded by translator and book designer Douglas Suttle...
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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Giveaways, retrospectives, ephemera, and 25% off the entire catalog. Dalkey Archive reached 40 years old in 2024. An overview of the things we have planned (and a brief explanation of why we waited until now to celebrate) can be found on our website. Link below in the thread:
Rembrandt’s Philosopher in Meditation, overlaid with the Dalkey Archive logo
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Chad Post on 40 years of Dalkey Archive, pt. 1 of 5! dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/forty-year... @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @chadwpost.bsky.social
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Forty Years of Dalkey Archive (Part I of V)
Like ESPN's "30 for 30," but not.
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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My blurb
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Mircea and the Muse
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Happy 10th anniversary to the book that made me a publisher, that changed my life, that continues to be the guide star in the history of Deep Vellum & all we’re trying to do in this world
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Deranged merch 2025
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Wonderful to meet @willevans.bsky.social and @exhaustdata.bsky.social at Deep Vellum/Dalkey Archive’s Texas Book Festival table. It took a lot of self-control to walk away with only two of their books.
Covers of the books Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa and Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
1) cosign 2) the first poem in this piece, after the bio, is magnificent
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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I have another blurb
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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Half-way, I am absolutely astounded at how good this is, arguably Cartarescu’s most imaginative, while also reaching a new readability that will attract even readers turned off by Solenoid’s Rabelaisian sensibility. English language readers will get in Sean Cotter’s version in Deep Vellum in 2026.
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Giving a talk at UT-Austin at lunch tomorrow & high-tailing it up I-35 in time for Hanif Abdurraqib at Deep Vellum in the evening. Join for one, or for my fellow insane, join for both!
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
“Who is worthy to open the book?” Theodoros by Mircea Cartarescu, translated by Sean Cotter, forthcoming October 2026 from @deepvellum.bsky.social
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
glad to see the internet is abuzz with today's big news, that Deep Vellum is publishing Max Lawton's translation of the giant epic HORCYNUS ORCA by Stefano D’Arrigo newshttps://www.deepvellum.org/news/horcynus-orca
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Another Big Book: HORCYNUS ORCA — Deep Vellum
What would happen if one were to combine ULYSSES and MOBY DICK and have the resulting text take place in WWII Sicily? Something like HORCYNUS ORCA. Max Lawton's translation of Stefano D'Arrigo's cla...
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
RIP to the great Serbian writer Goran Petrović, heir to the remarkably genre-bending tradition of his countrymen Pavić & Kiš. Lucky to have published AT THE LUCKY HAND at @deepvellum.bsky.social—his 1st book in English—during the COVID summer of 2020 store.deepvellum.org/products/at-...
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