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KNIT INK, my exploration of the possibilities and limits of formal poetry and literary constraint, is available now from Deep Vellum! Get yours here: store.deepvellum.org/products/kniti…

happy pub day to this stunning novel about loss, grief, and memory, a new António Lobo Antunes release from Dalkey, translated into Eng by Elizabeth Lowe Dalkey Archive Agencia Balcells

In Publishers Weekly, a glowing review for the "lush" and "inventive" BOOK OF HOMES by Andrea Bajani publishersweekly.com/9781646053810

For the first time in many years, we have signed a new book. THE TERRIBLE by Michael Bible. Winter '26/'27

New mug available on our website. Works great for black coffee, and probably most other liquids, but we haven’t tested those.

New Schattenblog: Post 13: Mousetraps-- Mérode Altarpiece, tunnel of looking, self-making, mousetraps, burning Waymos, tempting images and more, link in reply tweet for algo

THE SUGAR KREMLIN “collapses reality…with a heedlessness that only Vladimir Sorokin can muster.” Coming this summer

And so we have arrived at the finish line. The English translation of Schattenfroh has been sent to print.

“The book to end all books” —Publishers Weekly “This is a literary landmark” —Foreword Reviews Pre-orders available now: store.deepvellum.org/products/schat…

Our first Romanian book at Deep Vellum! A remarkable Sean Cotter translation! A modern classic of a novel!!

Shout out to Sophia Terazawa’s fascinating TETRA NOVA, a novel that reaches into almost every form while unsettling received beliefs about the documentary form.

Winner of the Faroese National Book Award, and the Nadia Christensen Prize for translation, we are delighted and honored to announce WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO FOR A PERSON TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING THIS SIDE OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Dalkey Archive’s lone gen-z employee assured us that this was “pretty good”

Available now, in stores and online, the first two entries in a long-overdue deluxe treatment for the incomparable Harry Mathews, “one of American literature’s great idiosyncratic figures” (The Paris Review)

The Journalist (featuring an introduction by Jonathan Lethem) dalkeyarchive.store/products/the-j…

Cigarettes (featuring an introduction by Lucy Sante) dalkeyarchive.store/products/cigar…

Over 100 copies sold!

HOT DAMN this is a fun piece. “he bragged that he had never set foot in Texas without being arrested”

I wrote about Mariette Navarro’s “Ultramarine” for Full-Stop, as a story of abstract freedom, nascent class-consciousness, and libidinal bribes. (Link below, etc.)