Deep Vellum
@deepvellum
Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Happy publication day to TIME MUST HAVE A STOP — Part social satire, part rollicking coming-of-age tale, part novel-of-ideas, the book that author Aldous Huxley called his most successful effort at “fusing idea with story”!
Available today — Harry Mathews’ seminal (haha) masterpiece of flash fiction, 50+ vignettes detailing the “ingenuity, tenacity, and inventiveness with which humans in all places and at all ages have pursued their own pleasure” (Artforum).
Today, Deep Vellum & La Reunion publish our first ever Pulitzer Prize Winner — WELCOME TO PARADOX CITY by the great Mark Lamster, a one-of-a-kind history of Dallas told through its most significant buildings, from the frontier days through the present and future.
Mark Lamster in D Magazine! WELCOME TO PARADOX CITY available TOMORROW wherever books are sold! Read the interview here: www.dmagazine.com/publications...
We are seeking interns for the Fall semester! See all available positions and find out how to apply here: www.deepvellum.org/news/call-fo...
NORTH SUN is this month’s Mulaney Reads Book Club pick!!! Can’t believe this is real life.
Melancholy Summer is upon us— “Fans of Fosse will detect the emergence of his signature style here—recursive, musical, stream-of-consciousness prose that circles hawklike over themes of art, faith, and death . . . A somber, lyrical meditation on fine art and base emotions.” —Kirkus
"Nimble and whip-smart; both bonkers and deeply serious. Dare I say it might even be a bloody brilliant novel? I dare. It's pure, uncut Kinsella." John Kinsella’s The Fountain of Youth is an ABC Australia Book of the Month!
Pulitzer Prize Winner Mark Lamster is going on tour! WELCOME TO PARADOX CITY, which features many of the essays that won him the prize, will be published August 4th, and is available for pre-order: store.deepvellum.org/products/wel...
Deep Vellum is absolutely thrilled to announce the acqusition of LOS SORIAS, by Alberto Laiseca, to be translated by Max Lawton, for publication in Spring 2029. Full press release here: www.deepvellum.org/news/deal-an...
Deal Announcement! “CHARM, STRANGE, BEAUTY is an incandescent novel that commingles the human and the cosmic,” says acquiring editor Jill Meyers of A Strange Object.
Luis Goytisolo, the author of ANTAGONY and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, has passed away at the age of 91.
A man confronting his virtual invisibility—no matter what actions he takes, the world seems to take no notice—is cut adrift from the certainties of his life and forced to navigate a society where everyone is only one loss of self-control away from disaster.
Coming soon in paperback — DIARY OF A FILM is a lush, sensual, and atmospheric novel about art-making and queer love, as if Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy were directed by Luca Guadagnino.
Today at the Dalkey Archive Essentials Blog & Newsletter, the great Jamie Hood on Carole Maso’s AVA (from her new introduction to the novel, available 7.21.26)! Read it here: www.deepvellum.org/dalkey-archi...
Strange things are happening in a small Australian town as the local theatre troupe prepares for their next performance. The Fountain of Youth is another riotous and rollicking novel from John Kinsella, and the third volume of his ongoing ‘Lucida’ cycle.
Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the psychological thriller, Nelly's Version—part dark comedy, part mystery novel—offers an unsettling journey into the mind of a witty woman stuck in a pastless present. Available 8.16.2026 Pre-order here: dalkeyarchive.store/products/nel...
Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction NYTimes Pick “Best Historical Fiction” Set in the Andaman Islands over the course of oppressive imperial regimes, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali is a complex, gripping homage to those omitted from the collective memory.
“A towering absurdist work … Moresco has Kafka’s power to unnerve, and Walser’s genial strangeness.” —Publishers Weekly Available today, the first book in Moresco’s colossal Games of Eternity trilogy, translated by Max Lawton.
From the author of Brave New World comes the story of Sebastian Barnack, a naive young poet on holiday with his uncle in Florence — where his real education begins.
From Deep Vellum & La Reunion, a first-of-its-kind history of Dallas through the city’s most significant buildings, from Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic Mark Lamster. Available August 4th, 2026!
Cover Spotlight — THE RIVER OF BLESSINGS by David Marquis, from La Reunion Press. The third and final volume of Marquis’s River Trilogy. Available 9.15.26 Pre-order here: store.deepvellum.org/products/the...
We’re hiring a Floor Manager & Buyer at our Dallas storefront! See the full job posting here and apply today: www.deepvellum.org/news/we-are-...
FILTH EATERS reviewed in The Border Chronicle! Read it here: www.theborderchronicle.com/vampires-wit...
Available today! Roger Boylan’s KILLOYLE! “A virtuoso performance” (Publishers Weekly) and comic romp in the great tradition of Joyce, O’Brien, and Beckett. Order it here: dalkeyarchive.store/products/kil...
Available now — a beloved heartbreaker from Wales, a post apocalyptic survival story told by a mother and son living off the land after nuclear disaster. Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, Wales Book of the Year, and more! Order it here: store.deepvellum.org/products/the...
Deal Announcement! Full press release here: www.deepvellum.org/news/deal-an...
Pre-order Maso’s early masterpiece AVA today: dalkeyarchive.store/products/ava
ESSENTIALS BLOG: Carole Maso’s incredible 1996 essay “Rupture, Verge, and Precipice / Precipice, Verge, and Hurt Not” — a response to her critics and a call-to-arms for writers of experimental literature in the 21st century. Read it here: www.deepvellum.org/dalkey-archi...