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.