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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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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 15d
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.
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 3h
"THE ENDLESS WEEK is dark and deep, a pool of black ink."

Walker Rutter-Bowman with a fantastic review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | ‘The Endless Week’ is an unusually feral and lovely novel
In Laura Vazquez’s deeply strange book, a chronically online teenage poet goes on a quest to find his mother.
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 3h
So nice to see our editor's novel MARGARET THE FIRST here!
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d
58 books you need to read (recommended by 42 writers, editors, and booksellers in honor of our 10th birthday!).
58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)
In honor of Literary Hub’s tenth birthday, we asked over 200 authors, editors, booksellers, publishing professionals, and other literary luminaries to weigh in on a few questions about the pa…
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Ari @earthkids.bsky.social · 5d
92: The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza

This isn't the type of book one can explain.

There's an unnamed detective in unnamed countries who is hired by a man to find his 2nd wife who is one half of a mad couple. It's full of slithering fairy tales and prose I wanted to embrace.

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Ari's & Eddie Spaghetti's 2025 Reads: 92/?? There are three images from left to right starting with me dressed as Louise Belcher dressed as Wednesday Addams with a speech bubble above my head that says: "So I’m at the anarchist bookstore and see a little paper that says read this Taiga Syndrome book and I am so glad I saw that. I’m obsessed, I’m in love, I want to not only read more by this author but this press." The Taiga Syndrome by Christina Rivera Garza, Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana. In the middle is a gray and black book cover, it is abstract and has white circles around it. Then there is Eddie Spaghetti a little black cat looking surprised with a litlte speech bubble that says: "Read this if you love: Taigas Feral Children? Lyrical Prose Being Confused Small Presses Feminist Presses Mexican Lit in Translation"
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 8d
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.
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 2d
Amazing review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post today!

"It’s rare to encounter a book as feral and lovely as THE ENDLESS WEEK, one equally fluent in the comedy and the horror of the world — and the word."
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | ‘The Endless Week’ is an unusually feral and lovely novel
In Laura Vazquez’s deeply strange book, a chronically online teenage poet goes on a quest to find his mother.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Chunkin’ Deuces✌️ @thiccceywicket.bsky.social · 2d
Picked up some bangers from Type Books in Toronto

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💙📚 #BookSky #Books
Books bought today: Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon, Helen of Nowhere - Makenna Goodman and The Endless Week - Laura Vasquez
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mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social · 3d
Just bought it at @portersqbooks.bsky.social! I am reading the first pages and am already thoroughly confused
Bookmark for Porter Squads Books next to The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez
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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 8d
the Mónica Ojeda hive should not miss this one
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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 8d
it kind of feels like the only correct way to talk about The Endless Week is to post about it
The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez, translated by Alex Niemi
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gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social @gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social · 7d
Currently reading: The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez & Reel Politik by Nathan Gelgud
Here is a photo of the books I am currently reading: The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez & Reel Politik by Nathan Gelgud
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 12d
Lovely interview with Alex Niemi, translator of THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, just up at @literaryhub.bsky.social . . . on "sonic suspense" and more!

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Alex Niemi on the Process of Translation and the Rhythm of Language
I’ve known Alex Niemi since 2012, when we both started a graduate program in literary translation at the University of Iowa. We co-edited our program’s literary translation journal, Exchanges, and …
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 7d
Caren Beilin’s TBR features books by Isabella Hammad, Stephen King, Lana Lin, and more.
The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next
Caren Beilin’s new novel, Sea, Poison, like her much of her other work, attends to the terrible realities of the medical industry and the personal effect this has on people. (She wrote about how he…
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 7d
Our own Caren Beilin is reading our own Lana Lin (and more!) @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next
Caren Beilin’s new novel, Sea, Poison, like her much of her other work, attends to the terrible realities of the medical industry and the personal effect this has on people. (She wrote about how he…
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 8d
"In 1922, Alice B. Toklas stood at the doorway. I willed Lan Thao to take their place."

Lana Lin on the cover of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, at @literaryhub.bsky.social.

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A New Autobiography: On Re-Envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover
During the pre-vaccine summer of 2020, I sat behind a long wooden table that my partner, H. Lan Thao Lam, had recently installed for me across from the fireplace in a former sawmill to which we had…
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 7d
Our own Caren Beilin is reading our own Lana Lin (and more!) @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
lithub.com/the-annotate...
The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next
Caren Beilin’s new novel, Sea, Poison, like her much of her other work, attends to the terrible realities of the medical industry and the personal effect this has on people. (She wrote about how he…
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 8d
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.
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 8d
"In 1922, Alice B. Toklas stood at the doorway. I willed Lan Thao to take their place."

Lana Lin on the cover of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, at @literaryhub.bsky.social.

lithub.com/a-new-autobi...
A New Autobiography: On Re-Envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover
During the pre-vaccine summer of 2020, I sat behind a long wooden table that my partner, H. Lan Thao Lam, had recently installed for me across from the fireplace in a former sawmill to which we had…
lithub.com
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 8d
“I treated the translation of this novel like a poem, in that I let the strangeness wash over me and didn’t try to think too hard about making things ‘make sense.’”

ALTA member Alex Niemi and Sarah Viren discuss Niemi's translation process and the rhythm of language. At Lit Hub:
Alex Niemi on the Process of Translation and the Rhythm of Language
I’ve known Alex Niemi since 2012, when we both started a graduate program in literary translation at the University of Iowa. We co-edited our program’s literary translation journal, Exchanges, and …
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 13d
Lana Lin’s “The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam” flips a Gertrude Stein classic into a modern queer love story.
Lana Lin’s new book channels—and challenges—Gertrude Stein | Xtra Magazine
“The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam” is an intimate and experimental love story
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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 10d
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 16d
Sarah, aka Eyes on Indie, one of the judges of this year's Republic of Consciousness Prize (US and Canada), talks about Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK (trans. by Alex Niemi)...
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EVERY Nominee for the 2025 RofC Prize: Book #13
YouTube video by Eyes on Indie
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 14d
Such a lovely q&a with Lana Lin @shelf-awareness.com. Especially enjoyed her answer to "Book you hid from your parents" and "Book you most want to read again for the first time."
www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Shelf Awareness for Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Welcome to the Web site for Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, ...
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somanybooks24.bsky.social @somanybooks24.bsky.social · 10d
“Perhaps the only way to write an Internet novel is by looking from the inside out.”
In @theartsfuse.bsky.social‬‬, Kai Maristed reviews Laura Vazquez’s newly translated novel, “The Endless Week” - artsfuse.org/317481/book-...
Book Review: "The Endless Week" Offers a Brave, Inside-Out Internet Novel Experience - The Arts Fuse
"The Endless Week" is a brave, uneven, at times brilliant swathe of prose. Experimental? For certain. Perhaps the only way to write an Internet novel is by looking from the inside out.
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Sarah Viren @sarahviren.bsky.social · 12d
Such a fun and fascinating interview with Alex Niemi about her translation of a totally bonkers (and great!) new novel.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 12d
“I found it hard to articulate the way a word could take up space in a body.” @sarahviren.bsky.social talks to Alex Niemi, translator of Laura Vazquez‘s The Endless Week.
Alex Niemi on the Process of Translation and the Rhythm of Language
I’ve known Alex Niemi since 2012, when we both started a graduate program in literary translation at the University of Iowa. We co-edited our program’s literary translation journal, Exchanges, and …
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 12d
“I found it hard to articulate the way a word could take up space in a body.” @sarahviren.bsky.social talks to Alex Niemi, translator of Laura Vazquez‘s The Endless Week.
Alex Niemi on the Process of Translation and the Rhythm of Language
I’ve known Alex Niemi since 2012, when we both started a graduate program in literary translation at the University of Iowa. We co-edited our program’s literary translation journal, Exchanges, and …
buff.ly
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