Dorothy, a publishing project

Tomorrow!

I've had men come up to me after I've given readings to tell me I say "um" and "like" too much. It seems to make them furious. Furious. I also once had a famous literary critic (I know, haha) ask me at a dinner (I was the one grad student and the only woman) if I was an "actual Valley Girl." So...

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quick break from reality (in as many senses as possible)

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Cover of Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge

I wrote this book in a circular home on a hill, overlooking the city, which roams while we are sleeping; I wrote it in a cafe with my friends; I wrote it as I looked for hidden streets, while sitting in desolate and lush spaces. I wanted to say language leaves a trace, makes a simultaneous trail, of us and of the crisis. My walking leaves a trace, also my saying I have walked. And, this is important, because, though these marks do not render precisely the picture of our crises, they do show where there are still people. The day fills up with monuments, and the book attempts to erect a fence around them. The book wishes to end a crisis by the sheer facts of existing. But, rather than a History, the becomes an index. It shuffles out bewilderment. It does not tell our story. It cannot do that. Nevertheless, it opens towards you. Tij. Ana Patova Ravicka

The notion of thinness, I thought, as the two of them sat on either side of an important threshold that neither seemed capable of seeing for the six hundredth time in their history, was this sitting here between them and who I was supposed to be now in this new emergency, when Ana Patova and Luswage Amini couldn't cross this bridge again. It wasn't so much a line between us as a bend in time, a fold where one had to walk through fire, or believe this to be the case. Luswage Amini believed she could no get across to Ana Patova as long as Ana Patova remained in Ravicka. "Luswage Amini is in France" became the material of that thinness.

No. 8 - Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge by Renee Gladman

A book within a book. Patova’s book ‘Enclosures’, in failing to translate Ravicka’s crisis, deals w/ the crisis of the subjective self/identity’s broken connection w/ the outside world. Basically, it’s about being human

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We've been lucky enough to have books longlisted for this prize before, so we've gone to this event before, and it is always very sweet and engaging, if you have some time to pop in this Wednesday evening...

We’ve gotta save her!!!! OMG!!!!!

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

The annual Republic of Consciousness Prize online event is coming up: Wednesday 2/18 at 6pm CT! Join to hear readings from all the longlisted books, including our own THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi.

Zoom link:
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Poster for AWP off-site event: with Dorothy, Kelsey St. Press, FC2, Airlie Press, and Case Western. Thursday, March 5 at 8pm at The Lithuanian Hall, 851 Hollins St. Join us for a literary reading featuring these presses and schools doing tight fives, an extraordinary cake buffet, social fun, books 4 sale, and a cash bar. Lana Lin, Lindsay Turner, John Haskell, Abigail Raley, Emcee Dufresne, Alex Niemi, Chin-in Chen, Angela Woodward, Yanara Friedland, Jess Yuan, Rohan Chhetri, and Caren Beilin!

Another AWP Offsite event for us! Also on Thursday, March 5, but this one has Lana Lin and a lot of cupcakes!

Poster for an AWP offsite event: Deep Vellum, Dorothy, a publishing project, Two Lines Press, and Red Emma's present: INDIE PRESS HAPPY HOUR. We love translated literature! Featuring readings by Alex Niemi, Lily Meyer, and Fatemeh Shams. Thursday, March 5, 5:30-7:30pm. Red Emma's Bookstore, 3128 Greenmount Ave., Baltimore, MD. FREE!

AWP! Off-site! Happy hour! @redemmas.org w/ us and @twolinespress.com and @deepvellum.bsky.social 🖤

Moon Palace Books Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.

Minneapolis is still occupied even if national media has looked away. Moon Palace is still running a book drive for Spanish language books. Help out by buying a few. (And skipping the coupon)

A light brown poster with white text reads "Book Launch: Lana Lin and Radhika Subramaniam. Wednesday 2/11, 6-8PM. Join us for an evening that features a conversation between the two authors, followed by audience Q&A and a celebratory reception. This event will be held at 6 East 16th Street in the Wolff Conference Room, number 1103."

Join us on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 6:00PM–8:00PM for the launch of Lana Lin’s The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam and Radhika Subramaniam’s Footprint: Four Itineraries. RSVP: event.newschool.edu/booklaunchla...

It is! Out in October!

I'm going to win.

Not Exactly a Thesis | Los Angeles Review of Books Brais Lamela explores fiction, history, and the slipperiness of the nonfiction novel in ‘What Remains,’ newly translated by Jacob Rogers.

NBCC member Michael Barron reviewed "What Remains," written by Brais Lamela and translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers, for the Los Angeles Review of Books:

Cover of The Ravickians

To say you have been born in Ravicka in any other language than Ravic is to say you have been hungry. That is why this story must not be translated. If, for example, you are reading these lines in French or German, Basharac or English, there are not the lines you are reading. Rather, these are not the lines I wrote. Of course, I do not wish to undermine the dexterity of my translators -- I have heard they are competent -- it is that the things I am trying to say are internal. The interior is twofold. Ravicka is not well, and its recovery has everything to do with architecture.

Today is stunning. Things appear to have changed in the says I spent holed up in my apartment. The usual yellow has a sidereal look about it, and as I pass through I am brushing a glitter from my skin. But, why talk about the air here if this is a translation you are reading? I will tell you about it and you will read me saying the ord :yellow" and think to yourself science fiction. Well, perhaps I do have a complaint for my translators, especially moving from Ravic to English. Why when i say dahar do you say "yellow"? I know that word. The air here is not yellow. It is dahar (yellow). If you are engaged in translation and discover that a quality you need to convey does not exist in your language, the language into which you are moving, do not pick the next best thing. Sometimes you will have to put a "0" there, this will indicate a hole.

-The bridge -It is not possible that we are here again -In thirty years we have stood at this mouth -Or the other mouth -So many times that it's pointless to announce it -We say goodbye again. I have overgrown this exchange -Yet you are the reason we must repeat it -I? -If you could enter the city with me -To inhabit together? -We have thirty years of this -But you are city, already built -No, awaiting structure -The person I met did not know me -To suggest otherwise is -Most

No. 7 - The Ravickians by Renee Gladman @dorothyproject.bsky.social

Decay, despair, loss in & of Ravicka, in translation of language & relationships by time, age & distance. Luswage Amini & Ana Patova’s failure to connect over 30 years. ‘Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge’ is next 💙📚 #Booksky #LitFic

My Lesbian Novel – Dorothy buy this book from our distributor NYRB

Read a novel from @dorothyproject.bsky.social this #BlackHistoryMonth!

Renee Gladman’s MY LESBIAN NOVEL is “a beautifully orchestrated dialogue between reflection and desire, or clarity and confusion.”
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Loved Karla's novel (and, of course, Renee's).

LANA LIN with Porochista Khakpour | The Brooklyn Rail Four years ago, Lana Lana sent me an email: “I am working on an experimental double memoir modeled on Gertrude Stein’s Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Mentorship would entail reading one hundred pag...

"Autobiomythography, as biomythography was to Lorde, is a survival strategy."

Lana Lin in conversation with Porochista Khakpour at The Brooklyn Rail...
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The Goldsmiths Prize presents Kate Briggs in conversation Join award winning translator and novelist, Kate Briggs, who will read from and discuss her work.

The Goldsmiths Prize in partnership with the Deptford Literary Festival Presents: Kate Briggs

📅 Wednesday 25th March, 7pm
📍Goldsmiths, University of London

FREE TIX👇
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Renee Gladman kicks so much ass. I'll also throw My Lesbian Novel on the recommendation pile

Cover of Event Factory

But there was a gesture I was to make upon entering a place that was already peopled, something between "hello", "sorry", and "congratulations I'm here," and I could not remember what it was. As subtly as I could, I bent here and there trying to jog my memory: was I to do a shake, a roundoff? I kept thinking, "How great it would be to enter." If only traveling were about showing off your language skills, if only it did not also demand a certain commitment of body communication, of outright singing or dancing -- I think I would be absolutely global by now. In Ravicka, I was barely urban. a child approached me and asked if I were sleepy. Why it was this question that recalled the missing gesture, I shall never know. But there it was: you folded your body and though you were taking a bow with your legs spread far apart, and then, after holding that position for several seconds (depending on your age) you brought your legs together quickly. I stepped inside the door; the patrons turned to me; I performed and was right.

Was I a spy? Did I have a message? I told them at best I was a linguist and that the dream was about architecture. But they stared at me, still waiting. I dug deep within myself for words that might satisfy them. "Do I have something?" I asked Dar in her language. She said, "Well, tell them why you came here." Which was perhaps more what se wanted to know. I thought about the gaps and breaths and my failure to record them. I said "At some point I knew we'd have to leave here." And they breathed and beat back "The violence of your premise." Leaving no room for response.

Architecture again. It always comes to that. I can never get inside it; the singing structure eludes me. All my life, I swear that that this has been true: I look at a shape, then look ut into the world for the contents to fill it, but the thing I bring back does not fit -- it more than not-fits, it destroys the shape altogether. As though putting my hands on things causes their distinctions to blur, as though I am not right to touch.

No. 6 - Event Factory by Renee Gladman

@dorothyproject.bsky.social 1st release. Gladman’s themes of architecture (who is it for, what is its nature) & limits of language are here but it’s also elusive; open to interpretation. Most of all, a joy to read. The Ravickians is next

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Book Begins with Beech Lana Lin explores legacies of imperial naming practices, and the urgency to speak out against injustice

In reading this conversation, I was also introduced to an earlier work by Lana Lin . . .
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Writing Oneself into Existence Lana Lin and Summer Kim Lee discuss psychoanalysis, art by Millennials versus Gen Xers, Asiatic femininity, the cringiness of “relatability,” Eve Sedgwick’s glasses and kimonos, narrative plenitude, a...

A lovely conversation between Lana Lin (THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM) and Summer Kim Lee (SPOILED) at Asia Art Archive . . .

Thanks! We're excited too.

WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (tr. Jacob Rogers)

Text from Dorothy’s website: Shifting between the present and the archival past, New York City and the remote mountains of Negueira de Muñiz, What Remains follows a young scholar’s journey into a forgotten episode of the Franco regime, uncovering both the tragic history and the still-present afterlife of a forced resettlement project in the Galician countryside of the 1950s. Like the hybrid works of Valeria Luiselli, Nathalie Léger, and Cristina Rivera Garza, Galician writer Brais Lamela’s prize-winning debut novel blends fiction, memoir, essay, and archival research to set history in conversation with contemporary reality. The result is a work of striking intimacy that explores, with subtle prose and arresting imagery, the complexity of modern migration and the legacy of twentieth-century colonization.

Reviews of WHAT REMAINS: “A masterful first book. A novel at a crossroads of times, places, and genres, one that invites profound thought and intense feeling.” —Manuel Rivas “Jacob Rogers’s subtle translation is an ideal match for the sensibility of Lamela’s writing in this stunning book.” —Idra Novey “This important novel announces a major new voice in Galician literature.” —Daniel Saldaña París “What remains? the book’s title asks. After emigration, after history, after death, exile, and transformation, what remains is life.” —Michael Barron, LARB “Immensely impressed & moved by this beautiful debut.” —Garth Greenwell

“Like the hybrid works of Valeria Luiselli, Nathalie Léger, and Cristina Rivera Garza, Galician writer Brais Lamela’s prize-winning debut novel blends fiction, memoir, essay, and archival research to set history in conversation with contemporary reality.”

BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen

Text from Dorothy’s website: At a conference somewhere in Europe, Maja meets the Author. Haunted by a recent tragedy, she leaves with him unexpectedly to his home on the Italian coast, where she stays for a time, wandering into the rhythms of his life, observing the landscape through the lens of his days—the glossy floors of the Esselunga supermarket, open windows on the autostrada, the sea. Yet everywhere over their new and tender intimacy hangs the knowledge that soon she will have to return home to Copenhagen, site of her devastating loss. A penetrating new voice among contemporary Danish innovators like Olga Ravn and Solvej Balle, Denise Rose Hansen paints with spare, deft lyricism a whole world of grief and yearning.

Reviews of BLUE SUNSET: “This slim novel should be read slowly because on every page there is a treasure: a strange thought that strikes like an arrow to the heart of a target, a surprising observation that nevertheless rings perfectly true, a discreet metaphor that seems to have been created for the first time. Hansen is so delicate, so singular, and so precise, that it seems as if she has only ever read the greatest poets.” —Anne Serre, author of A Leopard-Skin Hat “Blue Sunset streams onto the page in layers or sheets or waves, the emotional weather of the novel meeting the formations of sky, land, and sea. Sublime and inscrutable. In mourning, but alive.” —Amina Cain, author of A Horse at Night

Cannot wait for @dorothyproject.bsky.social’s fall releases! 💫

“A penetrating new voice among contemporary Danish innovators like Olga Ravn and Solvej Balle, Denise Rose Hansen paints with spare, deft lyricism a whole world of grief and yearning.”

Image of the 10 books longlisted for the The Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada, which just announced its fourth annual longlist of 10 titles from independent presses, celebrating the commitment of small presses to exceptional works of literary merit. The 10 longlisted titles for 2025 are: Dreaming of Dead People, by Rosalind Belben (And Other Stories) Little Lazarus, by Michael Bible (CLASH Books) The Remembered Soldier, by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay (New Vessel Press) On Earth As It Is Beneath, by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Padma Viswanathan (Charco Press) Little World, by Josephine Rowe (Transit Books) Iris and the Dead, by Miranda Schreiber (Book*hug Press) Small Scale Sinners, by Mahreen Sohail (A Public Space Books) The Endless Week, by Laura Vazquez, translated by Alex Niemi (Dorothy, a publishing project) Hothouse Bloom, by Austyn Wohlers (Hub City Press) Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation, by Sarah Yahm (Dzanc Books) The Prize will distribute a total of $35,000 USD to 2025 finalists as follows: each press with a longlisted book will receive $2,000; the five shortlisted books will be rewarded an additional $3,000 each, split equally between publisher and author, or publisher, author, and translator where applicable.

2025 Longlist for the US/Canada Republic of Consciousness Small Press Prize @usrofc.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses #literature

7 Novels About Women Who Lose the Plot - Electric Literature These books celebrate reckless speed, dizzying intensity, audacious rudeness, and the abandonment of social norms

Appropriately includes Caren Beilin's REVENGE OF THE SCAPEGOAT!

"The funniest parts of this funny American book are the dialogues between Iris’s aching feet, whom she has named Bouvard and Pécuchet (after two characters in an unfinished Flaubert novel)."
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Congrats to all the presses, authors, and translators! Love that this prize celebrates "the commitment of small presses to exceptional works of literary merit."