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Dorothy, a publishing project
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St. Louis-based press distributed by New York Review Books. Fiction & near fiction. Two books every Fall. Renee Gladman. Leonora Carrington. Cristina Rivera Garza. Caren Beilin. Amina Cain. Giada Scodellaro. Pip Adam. Kate Briggs. Etc. dorothyproject.com
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Cute pics of Lana Lin and @suzannescanlon.bsky.social (and someone's adorable dog) after their event last week at Women & Children First in Chicago. 💚
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Lana Lin will be in Toronto on Thursday, November 27!
A flier for Lana Lin's event at Type Books in Toronto on Thursday, November 27 at 7:30pm. Address for the bookstore is 883 Queen Street. W. in Toronto. Lana will be in conversation with Saffron Maeve at this event.
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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On Thursday, November 6 Lana Lin will be in conversation with our own @suzannescanlon.bsky.social at Women and Children First bookstore in Chicago!

Info here: womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2025-1...
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Friends, Lana Lin has two events coming up next week!

First up: Wednesday, November 5 with Deb Olin Unferth at First Light Bookstore in Austin!

Info here: www.firstlightaustin.com/events/lana-...
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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A year after our publication of her brilliant first novel, OVERSTAYING, Ariane Koch and translator Damion Searls will be in New York this Thursday, Oct 23, for the European Literature Night festival!

Info here:
new-york.czechcentres.cz/en/program/e...
A picture of artist and author Ariane Koch. The cover of Ariane Koch's debut novel OVERSTAYING (translated by Damion Searls). it features a dog-like creature with the face of a person standing on a beach at night.
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Ooo, THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (trans by Alex Niemi) is a staff pick for October at the very cool @literatibookstore.bsky.social!

literatibookstore.com/catalog/staf...
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Congrats to all the National Book Awards finalists! It was so much fun to see Lana's book make the longlist, and we're grateful that that no doubt helped get the book into more readers' hands.
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Lana Lin's book launch live right now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_fA...
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Right on pub day, here's a terrific little review of THE ENDLESS WEEK from the Center for Fiction newsletter! Virtuosa, indeed!
September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word!

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi
The front covers of The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam held up side by side in front of a tree whose leaves are beginning to turn from green to brown. This picture shows the spines for The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam stacked on top of each other and held up in front of a small tree on a sunny day.
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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PSSST. In advance of Tuesday's pub day, @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is having a quick sale on our two fall titles: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin and THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez trans. by Alex Niemi!

Hurry! Two more days! www.nyrb.com/collections/...
September 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Come one come all: Lana Lin's book launch for THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM will be on Wednesday, October 1 at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn (and also live-streamed) w/ Monique Truong!

RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-l...
September 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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We will be open to submissions from September 1st through September 7th this year! Submission info and guidelines are on the "about page" of our website: dorothyproject.com/about/
The Dorothy logo is a drawing of an owl standing on a branch looking out at the viewer. It was done for us by Yelena Bryksenkova back in 2009.
August 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Exciting book mail!
Three books on a table: Paradoxx by Kate Colby (forthcoming in September from Essay Press), 'A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time': Work on Conversation edited by Kate Briggs and Laura Haynes (recently out from The Yellow Paper Press), and Lily Is Crying by Hélène Bessette, translated by Kate Briggs (out this week from New Directions).
July 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Something nice from the other place . . .
A post from Dustin Illingworth: "Laura Vazquez's 'The Endless Week' is incredible. The best novel I've read this year. Out September from Dorothy." Translated by Alex Niemi! Pub date is 9/30/25!
July 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Exciting mail day! @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
A hand holding a book. The book is THE LONGEST WAY TO EAT A MELON by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross. The cover features a painting of a fluffy ginger cat crouching in the dirt staring at a snail. Back cover of same book. The tagline reads: "A cheeky debut of short fictions exploring the pitfalls and minor triumphs of the creative process." With blurbs from Lucy Corin, Danielle Dutton, River Halen, Sheung-King, and Jess Arndt. From Sarabande Books.
June 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Apparently May is short story month?!?!

In which case, May we recommend . . .
A grid of nine books, collections of short fiction, all from Dorothy save one. Top row: Sabrina Orah Mark's WILD MILK; Jen George's THE BABYSITTER AT REST, Danielle Dutton's PRAIRIE, DRESSES, ART, OTHER (from Coffee House Press). Second row: Suzanne Scanlon's PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN; Giada Scodellaro's SOME OF THEM WILL CARRY ME; Joanna Walsh's VERTIGO. Bottom row: Amina Cain's CREATURE; THE COLLECTED STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON; Cristina Rivera Garza's NEW AND SELECTED STORIES (trans by Sarah Booker et al).
May 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Exciting mail day!

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A picture of three books on a wooden table: upper left is an ARC of Kate Zambreno's ANIMAL STORIES, forthcoming from Transit Books; on the right is I WAS WORKING by Ariel Yelen, out from Princeton UP; and on the bottom left is Caitlin Lorraine Johnson's IO, a booklet out from The Economy Press.
May 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Psst. While you wait . . .
May 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Reprinted!
The cover of Jen George's THE BABYSITTER AT REST (with this blurb from Sheila Heti: "I'm so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They're so funny and weird and true.") in front of a blooming yellow iris plant. A picture of the first page of the first story in Jen George's collection THE BABYSITTER AT REST. The story begins: "'I was assigned to your case. You're now thirty-three.' The Guide says. The Guide has come into my apartment through the open window at the fire escape, breaking the screen. 'Though you're visibly aging, you've failed to transition properly and now it's the last hour.' The Guide enters my kitchen and looks over my tea collection: teas for energy, for shitting, for sleep, for being calm, for being present, for liking what I've been given, for being my inherent self--most of which are long expired."
May 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Very exciting book mail today!
April 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Happy book birthday to this weirdo!

@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Printed galleys for our Fall 2025 titles are in!

Laura Vazquez's "sublime" (Le Monde) novel THE ENDLESS WEEK (translated by Alex Niemi) and Lana Lin's "brilliant" (Julietta Singh) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM will both be out 9/30/2025.
Printed galleys for Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK (translated by Alex Niemi) and Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM stand up in front of a blooming lilac bush. The back cover for Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK (translated by Alex Niemi) with jacket copy from the publisher and blurbs from Blake Butler, Joyelle McSweeney, and Le Monde. Back cover for Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM with jacket copy from the publisher and blurbs from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Julietta Singh.
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Reminder that the Republic of Consciousness (US and Canada) Zoom celebration is tomorrow night (Wednesday, Feb 19 at 6pm CT)! More info here: www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news @usrofc.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Enormous congratulations to our own @giadascodellaro.bsky.social on winning the 2024 Novel Prize!
February 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM