Remember our story in February about Hollywood Heights neighbor Will Evans, who founded Deep Vellum Publishing, a nonprofit publishing house in Deep Ellum in 2013? (Read more.)
This week Deep Vellum Publishing will release its second published book, “The Art of Flight,” by Mexican author Sergio Pitol and translated by Dallas’ own George Henson.
The release party is not in our neighborhood, but if you’d like to support Evans, it’s on Wed., March 18 at The Wild Detectives at 7 p.m.
Oddly enough, the release party lands on Sergio Pitol’s 82nd birthday, so the party will also be a celebration of Pitol’s life and work. This will mark Pitol’s English-language debut, even though Evans says Pitol is “one of the most prominent and influential authors in the entire Spanish-language world, having won the Cervantes Prize, and influenced authors from Valeria Luiselli, who wrote a piece for Granta declaring Pitol one of the great untranslated writers into English, to Enrique Vila-Matas, who provided the introduction to ‘The Art of Flight.‘”
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During the event, Henson, who is completing his Ph.D in translation studies at UT-Dallas, will read from his translation and then there will be a discussion led by Evans with UT-Arlington professor Dr. Ignacio Ruiz-Perez, who studied under and worked closely with Pitol in Xalapa at the University of Veracruz.
