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.

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.