Really a fantastic novel. A real frolic for fans of Oreo by Fan Ross.

In the Time of the Blue Ball “Humane, impossible, homely and alien, Draeger's extraordinary stories are as close to dreams as fiction can be.” —China Miéville

More about the book over at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social . . .

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Chicago Books to Women in Prison Chicago Books to Women in Prison is an all-volunteer organization that sends free books to women and trans people in prison nationwide.

YALL.

There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!

Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.

LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org

"The book often calls to mind Beckett, Lispector, and the prose poems of Russell Edson, but the foremost presiding spirit here seems to be Borges’s character Funes the Memorious . . ."

REVIEW: The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez Adam Kosan on Vazquez's "strange, mundanely delirious novel" out from Dorothy.

A fantastic essay on THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (translated by Alex Niemi):

"I doubt there will be many novels published in the near future that will work this powerfully on our language—and so on our sense of ourselves and our world."

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This vibrating web When she was growing up near Perpignan, in the south of France, Laura Vazquez wrote what she now describes as long, obsessive prayers “against death”. She

Review of THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (trans by Alex Niemi) just up at the @thetls.bsky.social!

"There is a dreamlike quality to her writing, reminiscent of Kafka, Beckett and Dostoevsky . . ."

This vibrating web When she was growing up near Perpignan, in the south of France, Laura Vazquez wrote what she now describes as long, obsessive prayers “against death”. She

Review of THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (trans by Alex Niemi) just up at the @thetls.bsky.social!

"There is a dreamlike quality to her writing, reminiscent of Kafka, Beckett and Dostoevsky . . ."

This is a weird one. In case you would like to read a weird one this is one of those.

Thank you

Apologies for typos in the alt text. Shelley Jackson's blurb actually says: "All musical dogs, woolly crabs, children and other detectives of the not-yet-invented should own this book."

The front cover of IN THE TIME OF THE BLUE BALL by Manuela Draeger, translated by Brian Evenson.

A springtime yard mix of violets and dandelion.

The back cover of IN THE TIME OF THE BLUE BALL with blurbs from Shelley Jackson, who says "All musical dogs, wolly crabs, children and other detectives of the not-yet-invented should old this book," and China Mieville, who calls the book "Humane, impossible, homely and alien."

It's springtime and IN THE TIME OF THE BLUE BALL is freshly and finally back in stock!

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Happy to hear you liked Some of Them Will Carry Me 🖤

Thanks so much to @memoiring.bsky.social for selecting The Autobiography of H Lan Thao Lam as their April pick! I'm hearing up for a great convo at the end of April! 💐

"A newspaper is—or ought to be—the opposite of an algorithm, a bastion of enlightened generalism in an era of hyperspecialization and personalized marketing. It assumes that there is a range of subjects an educated reader ought to know about, whether she knows that she ought to know about them or not. Maybe she would prefer to scroll through the day-in-the-life Reels that Instagram offers up to her on the basis of the day-in-the-life Reels that she watched previously, and so much the worse for her. The maximalism and somewhat uncompromising presumption of a newspaper, with its warren of sections and columns and byways, is a quiet reproach to its audience’s most parochial instincts. Its mission is not to indulge existing tastes but to challenge them—to create a certain kind of person and, thereby, a certain kind of public."

Replace "newspaper" with "bookstore" and this gets at the heart of what makes good bookstores valuable. (This is from Becca Rothfeld's piece on the undoing of the WaPo's Bookworld.)

My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman Metafiction and hybrids

My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman is a delightful hybrid work that I highly recommend. amandaearl.substack.com/p/my-lesbian...

I'm so sorry, Amina. Sending love!

If you haven’t joined a Memoiring author convo yet, THIS IS THE ONE! Grab a copy of this incredible “double memoir” and bring YOUR craft and process questions on 4/30. RSVP link in bio!

I choose to believe this is a little bathrobe and you have walked in while the little belt is undone and it’s open

This is such an incredible read — so thrilled to have it as our April Selection and a convo with Lana on 4/30.

Writing a "double memoir" Lana Lin narrates her story from her partner's perspective, blurring self and self-portrait, in our April Book Club Pick

Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM is the April pick for the @memoiring.bsky.social book club (complete with an author visit from Lana)!
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Book A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain next to glass of wine on wooden table

AWP book 5: A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain, second book I'm reading from @dorothyproject.bsky.social. I LOVED this! A gentle, but intellectually sharp reflection on reading & writing, particularly concerned with what it is that fiction does & can do.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Whoa.

Kate Briggs speaks with Madhur Anand about translation, writing, her novel The Long Form (@dorothyproject.bsky.social) and more in Brick's Winter issue.

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin is a Lammy finalist! 🎉

Kate Briggs: "THE LONG FORM is in part a working out of the question of how to live together posed by Barthes in his lecture courses, and especially the co-living dynamics that might be possible between what he calls 'an unequal pair.'"

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An Interview with Danielle Dutton - The Cincinnati Review Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other is a collection of surreal stories full of haunted landscapes, literary experiments, and essays on the

Our editor (in a silly hat) talks about her latest book (Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social) and being a Dorothy fangirl at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social . . .
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