Deep Vellum Publishing

Deep Vellum Publishing Deep Vellum Publishing is a literary arts organization and publisher based in Dallas, Texas.

Deep Vellum Publishing is a not-for-profit literary arts organization that seeks to enhance the open exchange of ideas among cultures and to connect the world’s greatest writers with English-language readers through publishing international literature in translation, while fostering the art and craft of translation, and promoting a more vibrant literary community in Dallas and beyond. Be sure to check out Deep Vellum Books, our sister company and bookstore in Deep Ellum at 3000 Commerce Street!!

Available today, the first book of Antonio Moresco’s colossal Games of Eternity trilogy, THE BEGINNINGS by Antonio Mores...
06/23/2026

Available today, the first book of Antonio Moresco’s colossal Games of Eternity trilogy, THE BEGINNINGS by Antonio Moresco — translated by Max Lawton.

“The Games of Eternity trilogy is one of the most daring and visionary works ever to appear in Italian literature. It has inspired and terrified at least two generations of Italian writers.” —Vincenzo Latronico

“A sublime masterpiece.” —Grace Byron

“A towering absurdist work.” —Publishers Weekly

“A hypnotic and dreamlike book, punctuated by moments of effervescent clarity.” —Chicago Review of Books

“The prose of The Beginnings is a camouflage that wants nothing more intensely than to fully reveal itself in all of its disruptive possibilities.” —COM-POSIT

“The Beginnings achieves something of considerable difficulty, and something deeply liberating, in times in which explanatory writing, philosophical and existential musings risk to be re-branded as escapism for adults: he manages to build a deeply philosophical book through the sheer energy of literary presentation.” —Reading in Translation

THE BEGINNINGS arrives TOMORROW — 6.23.26
06/22/2026

THE BEGINNINGS arrives TOMORROW — 6.23.26

A first-of-its-kind history of Dallas told through the city’s most significant buildings.With an exceptional blend of ar...
06/22/2026

A first-of-its-kind history of Dallas told through the city’s most significant buildings.

With an exceptional blend of architectural history, social history, and critical writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Lamster takes readers to the sun-scorched origins of Dallas as a remote outpost on the Texas frontier, then traces the city’s development into the dynamic, if imperfect, metropolis we know today. Welcome to Paradox City is an illuminating, illustrated look at the often-invisible ways that architecture shapes a city and its culture from its founding, to the present, and onward into the future.

Available August 4th, 2026.

“I would play this and other games of eternity.” The Beginnings begins with an awakening, and a ritual—an attempt to cap...
06/19/2026

“I would play this and other games of eternity.”

The Beginnings begins with an awakening, and a ritual—an attempt to capture that elusive moment when matter turns into light. Through 650 pages, Antonio Moresco pursues such transformations, transcendences, visions.

Available 6.23.26

COVER SPOTLIGHT! River of Blessings by David Marquis, from La Reunion Press. The River of Blessings, the third and final...
06/18/2026

COVER SPOTLIGHT! River of Blessings by David Marquis, from La Reunion Press.

The River of Blessings, the third and final installment in David Marquis’ River Trilogy, is a lyrical meditation on the unpredictable movements of life and the stream of blessings that come in their own, unpredictable time with the pursuit of goodness.

“Life is not a vending machine,” begins David Marquis’ The River of Blessings, “You can’t simply put in a good deed, a good work, and immediately get a blessing in return.” Instead, life and its blessings flow like a river, sometimes unpredictable and nonlinear, sometimes flowing with force and other times like a trickle. In The River of Blessings, David Marquis (David Marquis) asks readers to embrace life’s mysteries and let go of its burdens in order to feel the full weight of its blessings more fully.

Available 9.15.26(

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Deep Vellum is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Love Letters by J.K. Franko. Love Letters is a formall...
06/17/2026

Deep Vellum is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of Love Letters by J.K. Franko.

Love Letters is a formally inventive novel composed of interconnected stories, memoir fragments, criticism, screenplay, and poetry. Across shifting voices and recurring characters, the novel explores how writers, readers, lovers, and strangers attempt, and often fail, to communicate meaningfully with one another.

At once playful and emotionally serious, Love Letters stages an ongoing dialogue between writers, readers, critics, and fictional characters, gradually dissolving the boundaries separating them. The novel asks whether literature is merely language on a page or an attempt by one consciousness to reach another across isolation and time.

Love Letters is slated to be released in April of 2027.

J.K. Franko is the author of the Talion trilogy (Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth, and Life for Life), the standalone thriller Killing Johnny Miracle, and the literary novel Love Letters. His novels have been published in Spanish translation by Grupo Planeta and Penguin Random House Spain. His first Spanish-language novel, Última Navidad en Madrid, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House Spain. A dual United States-Spanish citizen, Franko is founder and editor of Sine Qua Non and writes fiction and criticism exploring authorship, morality, memory, and human connection. He holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Texas at Dallas and lives between Texas and Spain.

See full press release on our website!

Deep Vellum is seeking a Floor Manager & Buyer to join the team at our Dallas-based storefront. The ideal candidates wil...
06/16/2026

Deep Vellum is seeking a Floor Manager & Buyer to join the team at our Dallas-based storefront.

The ideal candidates will have a strong passion for the work of independent publishers and be familiar with our mission to bring the world into conversation through literature; knowledge of our published books; a history of customer service work and bookselling; proactive communication and collaboration skills; and an enthusiasm for representing Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive Press’s titles to the reading public.

Title: Floor Manager & Buyer
Position Type: Part-time or Full-Time (Full-Time preferred)

Description:
The Floor Manager & Buyer will be responsible for selecting and buying titles and overseeing day-to-day bookstore operations, staff performance, and customer experience, including managing part-time Publishing Assistants & Booksellers, handselling to customers, and maintaining store standards.

Responsibilities:

Select and order titles across categories

Maintain relationships with distributors, publishers, and sales representatives

Submit and track invoices

Manage Deep Vellum Books social media accounts alongside the Programming Director

Support programming (events and book clubs) with strategic title selection

Manage daily opening and closing procedures

Supervise, train, and schedule booksellers

Serve as point person for staff questions, issues, and conflict resolution

Maintain store standards (merchandising, cleanliness, displays)

Handle face-to-face customer service issues and escalations

Ensure compliance with organizational policies, procedures, and mission alignment

Coordinate with other staff to support events and launches

Communicate operational needs and updates to leadership

See link in bio for the full job description!

Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for WritingLonglisted for the UKLA Book AwardsWinner of Wales Book of the YearWinner o...
06/16/2026

Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing
Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards
Winner of Wales Book of the Year
Winner of the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal

The post-apocalyptic story that captured the heart of Wales gets to the heart of the mother-son relationship, the making of myth, and the humanity within us all.

“One of the most consequential literary organizations in the country.”In case you missed it, Will Evans is a Patron Maga...
06/14/2026

“One of the most consequential literary organizations in the country.”

In case you missed it, Will Evans is a Patron Magazine Arts Influencer!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— Deep Vellum and A Strange Object are pleased to announce the acquisition of KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLO...
06/10/2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—

Deep Vellum and A Strange Object are pleased to announce the acquisition of KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE by Doris W. Cheng, represented by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company, for publication in August 2027 (world).

KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE is a novel about a Taiwanese American woman’s fixation with Holden Caulfield and a paean to female rage. It is at once a provocative recasting of the now-standardized immigrant narrative, an interrogation of the power structures and societal expectations that have shaped that narrative, and a deeply funny book reminiscent at once of Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Disorientation and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.

Jill Meyers, editor of A Strange Object, comments on the acquisition: “KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE is brilliant, incendiary—and deeply funny. I laughed so much reading it and was also deeply surprised. It does not submit to expectations.”

Doris W. Cheng is fiction editor at Bellevue Literary Review. She has been a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize and is the author of Earthling, a chapbook of stories from Word West Press.

A Strange Object was founded in Austin, Texas in 2012 by Jill Meyers and Callie Collins. It became an imprint of Deep Vellum in 2019. A Strange Object publishes surprising, heartbreaking fiction alongside thoughtful works of nonfiction that defy categorization. We’re talking about books that haunt and inspire us—big work that engulfs, that takes risks, that bucks form, that builds warm dwellings in dark places.

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