BOMB

"I definitely would prefer social science fiction to science fiction, as I really didn’t intend these books to ask deep questions about technology or bioengineering or inter-galaxy relations. Instead, they wonder about city living, architecture, language and communication, desire, and community—the same things I wonder about in my own life." Read a fantastically interesting interview with Renee Gladman over at BOMBlog.

Poets & Writers!

Dorothy, a publishing project is the Small Press Point in the latest issue of Poets & Writers: "In addition to their 'equal wonderfulness,' the Dorothy books possess a sort of harmony as physical objects." Read the full article here.

Ben Marcus

Over at The Millions, Ben Marcus picks Barbara Comyns's Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead for his Year in Reading 2011 list: "re-printed beautifully by a new small press called Dorothy Project. Barbara Comyns’ novel is deranged in ways that shouldn’t be disclosed."

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Another great review from Publishers Weekly . . .

. . . this time for Manuela Draeger's In the Time of the Blue Ball (translated from the French by Brian Evenson): "In three short stories with a distinct Murakami vibe, hapless investigator Bobby Potemkine threads his way through his city’s meteor-shredded ruins to find out which of several women named Lili has really invented fire, what to do about an angry noodle named Auguste Diodon, and how to rescue the many baby pelicans that litter the roads." Read the entire review here.

Publisher's Weekly

Read the excellent advance review of Renee Gladman's The Ravickians in Publishers Weekly, here. A sample: "Gladman’s talent for linguistic architecture makes for a supple, tight promenade through heady ideas whose appeal rests on the implicit connection it draws between a people, their language, and the shape of communication. A novel set inside a poem . . ."

Draeger in The Collagist

Read the eponymous story from Manuela Draeger's In the Time of the Blue Ball (translated by Brian Evenson) in the new issue of The Collagist.

NOW AVAILABLE!

Renee Gladman's beautiful The Ravickians and Manuela Draeger's magical In the Time of the Blue Ball (translated by Brian Evenson) are now available for purchase through this website! Here and here. Each book is $16 or purchase both together for $25 with free shipping!

Poetry Project Newsletter

Erik Anderson wrote a smart and thoughtful review of Event Factory in the latest Poetry Project Newsletter. You can download it here.

The Quarterly Conversation

David Auerbach offers an insightful review of Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, here.

Indie Booksellers Choice Award

Barbara Comyns's Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead is now a finalist for this award!

Bombay Gin

J'Lyn Chapman in the new issue of Bombay Gin: "The press's premier titles, Renee Gladman's Event Factory, the first book in a trilogy, and Barbara Comyns's Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, a reissue originally published in 1954, build perspectives and worlds that are so totally funny and complex that to get a sense of the Dorothy aesthetic, simply let these books enrapture you." See the issue, here.

Longlist

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead has made the Independent Booksellers' Choice Award longlist. See the list, here. A lot of wonderful books on that list!

Dorothy at PBS.org

Jessa Crispin recommends Barbara Comyns's Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, here.

Interview at Volume 1 Brooklyn

Tobias Carroll posted a new interview about Dorothy, a publishing project, here.

The Review of Contemporary Fiction

John Madera has an excellent review of Event Factory in the latest RCF. He says, "Event Factory is a profound study of the architecture of being, knowledge, memory, and desire."

Volume 1 Brooklyn

A great review by Tobias Carroll of Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, here.

SPD Staff Pick

Zack Friedman makes Event Factory an SPD staff pick, here.

Tarpaulin Sky Review

An interesting review of Event Factory by Paula Koneazny over at TSky . . .

Bestsellers!

Our books take the #2 and the #3 spots on Small Press Distribution's Fiction Bestseller list!