Actually good news: translation publisher Deep Vellum is expanding.
Oh hey, this is good news for books, and friends of books! Deep Vellum, the Dallas-based nonprofit publisher of literary translations (and also a bookstore!), has acquired the backlists of two other indie publishers: Phoneme Media and A Strange Object. LIke Deep Vellum, Phoneme’s mission is to publish books in translation, primarily poetry collections. A Strange Object publishes mostly fiction (actually fun fact: their Twitter bio reads “Fiction? Fiction? Fiction? Fiction.”) written in English.
Deep Vellum, too, will begin publishing non-translated works next year, and has launched La Reunion Publishing, a new imprint focused on Texas-specific books. One of the most exciting bits of news from the Publishers Weekly announcement was that one of the first titles La Reunion will release is a history of LGBTQ+ Dallas by Mark Doty, which sounds terrific.
This all sounds terrific! Congratulations to everyone involved, both human and book!
[h/t Publishers Weekly]
Jessie Gaynor
Jessie Gaynor is a senior editor at Lit Hub whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Glow was published by Random House in 2023. You can buy it here.
