Saturday, September 29, 2012

Dorothy at The Paris Review!

"I wanted to create a space where women felt encouraged to submit their work. Working at Dalkey, I saw that the number of submissions were overwhelmingly from men. Right around this time, too, I was talking about a book with a man who said to me, “I really liked it because five pages in I didn’t know it was written by a woman. I couldn’t tell a woman had written it.” And I thought, Are you kidding me? Are we still talking about this nearly a hundred years after A Room of One’s Own?"

Read the full interview here.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Chicago Book Launch!

If you'll be in Chicago on Friday, October 5th, please join us to celebrate the launch of Suzanne Scanlon's Promising Young Women and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's Fra Keeler. Both women will read from their debut novels at Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery on Ashland, upstairs from Dusty Groove. The reading starts at 7pm. Books will be available for purchase.

Please check back later for more about an upcoming NYC reading . . .