![]() ![]() What book (or books) made you want to be a publisher? As for other “big books,” The Books of Jacob delivers, which isn’t a surprise because Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft can’t miss, and a recent massive book that doesn’t get the love it deserves for its wild look at New York is The Five Books of (Robert) Moses by Arthur Nersesian, published by the always adventurous Akashic Books. Riley is right, Mesha is an absolute badass, and it brings me great joy that she teaches at Duke, my graduate school alma mater (and where Anne Garréta also teaches!). I guess this is a product of Workman’s legendary indie editors. I don’t know if that’s the “big book” you mean, but I don’t read so many books published under the Hachette banner. Riley Rennhack, Deep Vellum’s bookstore manager, is the biggest fan of Mesha Maren, and she was raving about her newest, Perpetual West. What's a big book you read recently that surprised you in a good way? In a bad way? So much of what I seek in literature, I still crave from those moments of awe and terror in Carr’s universe. Those books are so dark, and such evocative historical fiction worldbuilding. Maybe the books that I read as a 10-14 year old before I got obsessed with Russia and Vonnegut that still stick, none more so than Caleb Carr’s The Alienist, and the sequel, The Angel of Darkness. So one that you wouldn’t expect? I’m obsessed with Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers, but again, not surprising for a kid from a small town in the South. I have tattoos of some Russian and Ukrainian writers alongside a Vonnegut tattoo. I am pretty open about my reading journey in life, and my lifelong obsession to read anything and everything possible, and also that Maxim Gorky’s Life of a Useless Man in Moura Budberg’s translation was the book that set me on my current path in life at 14. What’s one of your favorite books that most people don’t know? And I’m reading Arno Schmidt’s Nobodaddy’s Children: Scenes from the Life of a Faun, translated by John E. We just got in the translation of Rumena Bužarovska’s second book for Dalkey Archive, I’m Not Going Anywhere, which the author co-translated with Steven Bradbury, and I’m absolutely blown away. to publish here in North America, written while Kurkov was in Kyiv weathering the earliest days of Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine. I’m about to finish Andrey Kurkov’s Diary of an Invasion, which was just delivered to us from Mountain Leopard Press in the U.K. When I do get to read adult books, I usually read books from the Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive universe, both forthcoming titles and backlist. My younger daughter is loving The Magic School Bus: Volcanoes. But my oldest and I have been making our way for the first time through some Diary of a Wimpy Kid volumes, his first long, mostly-text books and he’s in a bilingual class at school, so we’re currently reading a few days each night of Diario de Greg: Arrasa con todo. My kids are 6 and 4, so I don’t get a lot of time to read adult literature these days. We spoke with Evans by email about the latest developments at the press and other bookish matters. ![]() It’s part of what has proven a consistent expansion for the publisher, which plans to open offices in the U.K. ![]() Post of Open Letter Books, relaunched Dalkey earlier this year, with a list including the iconoclastic Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin’s The Four Hearts. Deep Vellum founder and publisher Will Evans, with the help of Chad W. In addition to its namesake publisher, DV operates a bookstore in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood, along with four imprints: the Texas-focused imprint La Reunion Publishing Phoneme Media and A Strange Object, whose backlists DV acquired in 2019 and the Dalkey Archive, the pioneering independent publisher launched by the late John O'Brien. Since it launched in 2013, Dallas, Texas’s Deep Vellum Publishing has continued to grow into one of the most significant American independent publishers of translated literature of its time. ![]()
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