Will Evans
@willevans
Publisher @deepvellum @dalkey_archive. Bookstore @deepvellumbooks. Eastern Europe. Translation. Straight edge. Black coffee. Esse quam videri.
For this week’s “Backlist Banger” title, we reach into the @open_letter catalog to tell you about Ha Seong-nan’s masterful FLOWERS OF MOLD, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong!
Just a quick reminder that we will be hosting a birthday party for William H. Gass this Wednesday (July 30th). The event will be held at Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive headquarters in Dallas, Texas
"I believe that where there is pleasure, knowledge is near. The same could be said of the kind of darkness from which light is born." Maria Gabriela Llansol Time again for the diaries.
Speaking of galleys, there’s still no better galley cover. All time great work from @biblioasis for an all time great book.
Sorokin galley available for discerning reviewers (like longtime Sorokinist, Gary Shteyngart). Sorokin (& Schattenfroh) event in NYC on August 19.
SCHATTENFROH
The Books You HAVE TO READ Before the End of the Year youtube.com/watch?v=1bxNc2…
Fatalist ass advertisement (I’ll be there too)
I will be on this event with Lawton & Cohen in August in New York City unless I get murdered between now and then.
Ozzy Osborne has died. Normally, he being an Englishman and all, I wouldn't mention it here, but this is a Texas history page and there is, well, you know ... THAT. For those totally unfamiliar with the story, on February 19, 1982, Ozzy Osbourne found himself in San Antonio,…
“If I have to distill this thought—this feeling—into questions, I’d ask the following. Is parody dangerous? Does satire of a regime ultimately serve the regime?” A conversation between Joshua Cohen and Vladimir Sorokin. buff.ly/rm6LBf7
The Guts of the Russian Brontosaurus-Cow: A Conversation with Vladimir Sorokin theparisreview.org/blog/2025/07/2…
Sure, DISPATCHES is a soot-blackened and grotesque phantasmagoria with full page illustrations that you’ll want to angle away from the person sitting next you—but at least it’s not Tom Clancy. That would be embarrassing!
Making up the type of guy who buys these from the LaGuardia McNally Jackson
Finished copies are in for The Book of Homes by newly-minted Premio Strega winner Andrea Bajani! This book was a finalist for the 2021 Strega, and miraculously threads the needle of structural ingenuity and emotionally resonance, without sacrificing on either
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature, the ethereal and sublime work of Jon Fosse defies classification. These magisterial books are now available in audiobook format, and make for excellent listening in the languid summer heat, despite their Scandinavian setting
Deep Vellum is very pleased to present the Fall 2025 / Winter 2026 catalog for all titles in the Deep Vellum family, including Dalkey Archive, Open Letter, and Fum d’Estampa. Available now on our website, link in the second tweet
TONIGHT
Straight from DC where I got a good hard look at the Epstein files, I will be heading to Dallas to deliver my finding (and maybe talk about my book Vera a bit too). Escape the heat at the Dallas Museum of Art! dallasartsdistrict.org/events/arts-le…
If you happen to find yourself in the city of Dallas Texas on July 30th, Dalkey Archive and Deep Vellum will be throwing a birthday party for William H. Gass at our headquarters. Refreshments and lots of beautiful sentences will be provided.