Books from Deep Vellum Publishing
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The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction
By Michael NollAnthony. Johnston. Lambright couldn't figure what she saw in his son. Until the girl started visiting, Robbie had superhero posters on his walls and a fleet of model airplanes suspended from the ceiling with fishing wire.
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Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson
By Peter DimockDaybook from Sheep Meadow finds Peter Dimock returning to the breakdown of America’s imperialist history that he started exploring in his groundbreaking previous novel, George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time.
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Ross Sings Cheree & the Animated Dark
By Ross John FarrarA native of the Bay Area, Ross J. Farrar is an internationally renowned singer, songwriter, and lyricist for the post-punk band, Ceremony.
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Blood of the Dawn
By Claudia Salazar JiménezMajor Romero lights a cigarette. I make sure not to let on how the smoke irritates me. I can't show even the slightest hint of weakness. “In the revolution we have comrades, not friends,” I cut him off short.
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A Life of My Own
By Donna WilhelmI fumbled into my clothes, heaped a bundle of “takes” over my arm, grabbed my handbag, and gripped one handle of the Jordan Marsh bag. Mother would be furious to see how many new dresses I'm buying. The bag gaped open.
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Texas: The Great Theft
By Carmen BoullosaBoullosa views border history through distinctly Mexican eyes, and her sympathetic portrayal of each of her wildly diverse characters—Mexican ranchers and Texas Rangers, Comanches and cowboys, German socialists and runaway slaves, ...
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Texas: The Great Theft
By Carmen BoullosaSabas and Refugio are proper gentlemen from the best of the best families of the region. Wagging tongues can't understand how Doña Estefanía could produce these two jewels, and then the roughneck Nepomuceno, who doesn't even know how to ...
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The Golden Age
By Michal AjvazAnyone is free to write in “The Book,” adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending “footnotes” in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text—but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that ...
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FEM
By Magda Carneci—Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood “Hard to sum up in just a few words, FEM is a psychedelic novel about the essences of femininity. A poetic prose that left me with the impression that it would fit wonderfully ...
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Raised by Wolves
By AmangIncisive and confessional, Raised by Wolves collects the most acclaimed work of Taiwanese poet -filmmaker Amang.
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In Concrete
By Anne GarrétaThrough puns, wordplay, and dizzying verbal effect, Garréta reinvents the novel form and blurs the line between spoken and written language in an attempt to confront the elasticity of communication.
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A Strange Woman
By Leylâ ErbilIn English at last, Leylâ Erbil's earth-shattering, feminist debut: the first novel by a Turkish woman to ever be nominated for the Nobel.
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La Belle Roumaine
By Dumitru TsepeneagLa Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman.
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Reading Quirks
By Javier Garcia del Moral, Andres de la Casa HuertasA light-hearted ode to the immense pleasure of reading and its resulting neuroses in a collection of cartoons created by beloved bookstore The Wild Detectives.
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The Recognitions
By William GaddisThe book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both”—The ...
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ELPASO: A Punk Story
By Benjamin VillegasThis is the story of two kids who came together to embrace the punk ethos of the 80’s and be a part of the rock n’ roll revolution sweeping the US, a world of the Ramones, Black Flag, and, of course, ELPASO.
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Blood Sisters
By Kim YideumBlood Sisters tells the story of Jeong Yeoul, a young Korean college student in the 1980's, when the memory of President Chun Doohwan's violent suppression of student demonstrations against martial law was still fresh.
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Freeway: La Movie
By Jorge Enrique LageFreeway: La Movie is a satirical novel that attempts to reconcile what might be hopelessly irreconcilable: the body and the machine; analog and digital; post-industrial overdevelopment and post-socialist underdevelopment; Cuba and the US; ...
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Red Ants
By Pergentino JoséThis vibrant collection of short stories by Pergentino José updates magical realism for the 21st century. Red Ants paints a candid picture of indigenous Mexican life -- an essential counterpoint to cultural products of the colonial gaze.
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Revenge of the Translator
By Brice MatthieussentThe work of a novelist and translator collide in this visionary and hilarious debut from acclaimed French writer Brice Matthieussent.