Holiday review reading break to catch up on some Dorothy Project oddities

Not *at all* surprised that Dennis Cooper dug THE ENDLESS WEEK!

A Chicago Reader reader recommends Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, calling it "a brilliant embodiment of the way two lives mesh together over time and a poignant reminder that perhaps the best way to be loved is to be seen." 🧡 chicagoreader.com/books/reader...

Not *at all* surprised that Dennis Cooper dug THE ENDLESS WEEK!

People, this book is really something. “Vazquez has created a unique and enduring novel. Something hard and real and tangible glitters amid the vapour of text and image she describes.” Check out Dustin Illingworth on THE ENDLESS WEEK @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

A Chicago Reader reader recommends Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, calling it "a brilliant embodiment of the way two lives mesh together over time and a poignant reminder that perhaps the best way to be loved is to be seen." 🧡 chicagoreader.com/books/reader...

“Someone at the high school asked me what my favourite emotion was and I said, “Awkward.” I’m not sure awkward is an emotion but it is where I live and it is what I want to write. Discomfort. Unsettled. Uncanny. I’m interested in a narrative arc that moves in these energies.” - Pip Adam

"It was amazing to imagine your city was a novel, and that for you to walk around within it meant that you were in language, you were in a thinking text. I had been placed inside of something dreaming, its citizens dreaming, the novels we had all written dreaming." - Renee Gladman, Houses of Ravicka

🧡 this interview with Lana Lin . . . memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

Where the incomparable Danielle Dutton talks with Pip Adam about the choice of being vague or didactic, politically engaged fiction and more. Huge thanks to @dorothyproject.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social & @pipadam.bsky.social lithub.com/other-better...

Alex Niemi, terrific translator of THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, will be reading from and discussing the book tomorrow, Thursday, December 11 at 7pm CST at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee (and online)! We've heard Alex read from the novel before and it and she were great! Tune in if you can...

Dressing for World Book Day as the river in Barbara Comyns's 'Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead'.

What an odd little book! Both charming and off-putting. Creepy and pastoral. I kept picturing the characters looking like they were claymation in Tim Burton style. Reminded me of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle! I recommend, especially if you like that one! #booksky 📚💙 💙📚

🧡 this interview with Lana Lin . . . memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

Exciting event news for our readers in Milwaukee! Join translators Alta L Price and Alex Niemi at @woodlandpattern.bsky.social as they read from and discuss work from Juli Zeh and Laura Vazquez woodlandpattern.org/events/readi...

“When people start acting stupid I usually stop reading. Those people aren’t ready to be characters yet. You can’t have just any figment be a character. They should have to pass a test.” – Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel

Get Wild Milk now, go go go

Maybe do some shopping for myself 😱 Latest one of the Dorothies to blow my mental hair back was Adams’s New Animals, but so much good work here!

Sweet deal on excellent books, available until midnight! My Dorothy recs would include Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin and Exposition by Nathalie Léger

Sale ends tonight at midnight. Just sayin.

Sale ends tonight at midnight. Just sayin.

All the Dorothies are on sale during @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social's sitewide sale for the next (checks watch) 36 hours! 📚🎁 Go: www.nyrb.com/collections/...

What's the best book *review* you wrote, read, edited, or published this year? I'm rounding them up again for Lit Hub. (Must have a 2025 pub date, no exceptions.)

People will say a perfect stack doesn’t exist and yet…

co-signing all of Wyatt's picks here, get in on this

Some of my favorites: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns, Creature and A Horse at Night by Amina Cain, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington, The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza, Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin, and Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger.

Revenge of the Scapegoat and The Endless Week (which I’m currently reading) are two of the best novels I’ve read this year.

two of my favorites, The Taiga Syndrome and Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, are included go go go

All the Dorothies are on sale during @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social's sitewide sale for the next (checks watch) 36 hours! 📚🎁 Go: www.nyrb.com/collections/...

People, this book is really something. “Vazquez has created a unique and enduring novel. Something hard and real and tangible glitters amid the vapour of text and image she describes.” Check out Dustin Illingworth on THE ENDLESS WEEK @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

A new interview with Lana Lin (about autobiomythography and more) just up at @debutiful.bsky.social! debutiful.net/2025/12/01/i...

A treasure.

Thankful for this new smart & tender review of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin at the @adroitjournal.bsky.social today! theadroitjournal.org/2025/12/01/a...

Barn Owls are one of the species that suffer the most rodenticide poisoning. We’re killing the best weapon we have against rodents w/ our inability to use proper pest control management. Help us change that by donating to our campaign #birds #birdsofprey #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison gofund.me/5e442bf9

A new interview with Lana Lin (about autobiomythography and more) just up at @debutiful.bsky.social! debutiful.net/2025/12/01/i...

St Louis residents— Bill Kartalopolous will be speaking about Joe Brainard's C Comics at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts (Wash U.) tomorrow (Wed., 12/3) at 5:30 pm at the Steinberg Auditorium. People of the World: Relax!

Translator Alex Niemi is doing a virtual event for Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK tomorrow w/ Type books!

Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Adrian Lue reviews Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, just out from @dorothyproject.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2025/12/01/a...

Thankful for this new smart & tender review of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin at the @adroitjournal.bsky.social today! theadroitjournal.org/2025/12/01/a...

in the craziest time of year I am doing a virtual reading this tuesday dec 2 at 7pm! with type books in toronto! for THE HAND OF THE HAND @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social + THE ENDLESS WEEK @dorothyproject.bsky.social by Laura Vazquez! come by!! register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Obsessed. #current #bedside New Lana Lin @dorothyproject.bsky.social #lanalin + @mbsycamore.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

For those conversations on the Between the Covers podcast: Revenge of the Scapegoat: tinhouse.com/podcast/care...

I read Caren Beilin’s Sea, Poison on recommendation of Josh from @portersqbooks.bsky.social and it was so good I immediately read Revenge of the Scapegoat. Now @davidnaimon.bsky.social drops the latest conversation with Beilin, which means I get to listen to her talk about both books back to back.

Now maybe I can read a book for 20 minutes while the pie cooks and everyone else is distracted.

The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin. I'm 60% through and I love it. I love every thing about it: the language, the people, the structure. It's just wonderful and will absolutely make my top 10 this year.

200 years of French lit! @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.social @dorothyproject.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social @groveatlantic.bsky.social www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

You can support small/midsize LLC presses like @beltpublishing.bsky.social, @twodollarradio.bsky.social, @dorothyproject.bsky.social by buying their books. You can support 501c3s (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social, @deepvellum.bsky.social, @hubcitypress.bsky.social) by making a tax-deductible donation.

Jewels of fairytales. My first encounter with Carrington; really appreciated the semi-chronological structure. Devoured it, appropriately.

One of the many many shots we got on an enchanted morning of really tiny, 'sparrow sized' Eurasian Pygmy Owl in #Slovenia a few weeks ago. #Birds #BirdsSeenin2025 #Owls #inthewoods #smallones #wildlifephotograohy #getoutside #nature #BirdTherapy #earthcapture