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Redfiend Publishing announces the release of the novel SUPERPOWER(S.) by Lauren Fairbanks Share Article SUPERPOWER(S.) Front Cover BOCA RATON, Fla. (PRWEB) January 31, 2021 Redfiend Publishing today announces the release of the novel SUPERPOWER(S.) by Lauren Fairbanks. This is Ms. Fairbanks’s third book. Her earlier works, Muzzle Thyself (a book of poetry) and Sister Carrie (a novel) were published by Dalkey Archive Press. Ludivine is the heroine of this postmodern novel. SUPERPOWER(S.) contains a screenplay within a novel. In...

New Deep Vellum poetry editor found community among Dallas writers. Now, he’s helping lead it With Sebastián Hasani Páramo, the Dallas-based publishing house adds not only a poet but also a passionate organizer to its team. Deep Vellum Publishing poetry editor Sebastián Páramo poses for a photo at the Recycled Books, Records, & CDs store in downtown Denton.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) Anyone paying close attention to Dallas culture will remember 2014 as the year a literary scene began to emerge. It was the year the city’s first independent bookstore, The Wild Detectives, opened; the...

An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry's The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines." The critics' conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American gro...

Remembering John O’Brien Much like the books he published, John O’Brien (1945–2020) was a complicated man. He was an idealist who devoted his life to a self-described “quixotic enterprise” of creating a repository for strange, innovative fiction from around the world—fiction that would stay in print forever, for future generations of readers to discover and wonder at. John had impeccable taste in literature. He especially liked French and Eastern European literature that toyed with ideas of repetition and variation, frequently centered around a hapless narrator who struggles to un...

Author Zahia Rahmani and translator Matt Reeck share the US$10,000 Albertine Prize purse for the English translation of ‘Muslim’, published by Dallas’ Deep Vellum. ‘A Book That Reflects Today’s World’ Continuing the year-end rush to announce publishing and book award winners, New York City’s French and English bookstore Albertine—presented as part of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy—has named Matt Reeck’s translation of author Zahia Rahmani’s Muslim (Deep Vellum, February 2019) the winner of the 2020 Albertine Prize. The news was announced Wednesday (December...