New(ish) Year 3 reviews and etc. . . .

James Pate at Montevidayo on Suzanne Scanlon's Promising Young Women, here.

Heather Logue at the Seattle Star on Promising Young Women, here.

Sessily Watt at Bookslut on Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's Fra Keeler, here.

An excerpt of Promising Young Women at The Nervous Breakdown, here. And, then, Suzanne's fab Self Interview, here.

Finally, Eleanor Gold's review of Promising Young Women at Full Stop, here.

Emily Books, Part Two

We're very pleased to announce that Suzanne Scanlon's Promising Young Women is the October pick over at Emily Books (Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead was a previous pick, by the way). Emily Books wrote a lovely synopsis of the novel, here. And check out this insightful q&a between Suzanne and Emily Gould.

Thanks, Emily Books!

Bookslut and The Millions!

Read Jill Talbot's review of Suzanne Scanlon's Promising Young Women at Bookslut . . .

Read Matt Jakubowski's review of Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi's Fra Keeler at The Millions . . .

Dorothy in Chicago

We had a wonderful reading at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Wicker Park last weekend. Check out some photos on our Facebook page. Also last week, Dorothy was featured in the new issue of Time Out Chicago: "'Both books are inventive but in totally different ways,' says Dorothy editor Danielle Dutton. 'The only thing I’m really looking for is something that takes risks and is really fantastic.'" Read the full article online . . .

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.

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 . . .

Nylon!

Check out Dorothy in the next issue of Nylon . . .

Two at The Kenyon Review

"Ah, Ravicka. Where the bookstores are all independent, language swoops through the body, and buildings disintegrate. A city-state in flux and crisis. Belgians know about it. Citizens are disappearing. There’s still good coffee, though it’s the end of the world."

Read all of Elaine Bleakney's fantastic review of both Event Factory and The Ravickians, online, in The Kenyon Review.

Also check out this interview with Dorothy, a publishing project (thanks, Hilary Plum!).

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Read Nicholas Grider's review of Renee Gladman's The Ravickians, here.

The Itsy-Bitsy Book Club

Also in Comyns news . . . check out this article at The Huffington Post.

Emily Books!

Very excited to have out first foray into the world of e-books be with the very cool Emily Books, a curated subscription service. Barbara Comyns's Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead is their May book. Check them out here.

Draeger Review

Jess Stoner reviews In the Time of the Blue Ball over at Necessary Fiction.

The Opposite of a Machine

Dorothy, a publishing project featured in St. Louis Magazine, here.

Bookslut and The Collagist review Gladman

A nice review of Renee Gladman's Event Factory by A-J Aronstein over at Bookslut. And, at The Collagist, Tom DeBeauchamp on The Ravickians.

Omnivoracious

"Allied with the fiction of Italo Calvino, Doris Lessing, and others, The Ravickians is entertaining, thoughtful, and a quick read. As with everything published by the Dorothy Project, it’s also a lovely little book to hold in your hand."

A nice write-up of The Ravickians and In the Time of the Blue Ball by Jeff VanderMeer at Omnivoracious.