Will Evans Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Will Evans on X
Publisher @deepvellum @dalkey_archive. Bookstore @deepvellumbooks. Russia. Translation. Straight edge. Black coffee. Esse quam videri.

No Windmills in Basra
Diaa Jubaili
Visual accompaniment to one of the coolest books we published at @DeepVellum last year: NO WINDMILLS IN BASRA by @DJubaili & translated by @Chip_Rossetti https://t.co/fXP8bYBCH8 @deepvellumbooks https://t.co/2JlrOcKRaF
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Strangers
Jon Bilbao
Upcoming @Dalkey_Archive book has aliens, y’all. Jon Bilbao’s The Strangers, translated by Katie Whittemore. https://t.co/01LrAf8mZe
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In Concrete
Anne Garréta
New @deepvellum arrivals—Fernanda García Lao’s OUT OF THE CAGE tr. by @WillVanderhyden & Anne Garréta’s IN CONCRETE tr. by @EmKateRam—on the shelves of @deepvellumbooks today or order online #womenintranslation #argentinianliterature #frenchliterature #translation #literarydallas https://t.co/jgUfWpYxvr
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
Life in the Fap Lane: on John Barth & the Sot-Weed Factor in @thebafflermag @Dalkey_Archive https://t.co/3o9HAiePtu
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
Larry McMurtry
Waiting around in jury duty in the Dallas County Criminal Courts & @HarryGoaz is here too & the dude next to me is reading Jimmy Johnson’s Turning the Thing Around (1994) while I read Larry McMurtry’s All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers (1972) https://t.co/sivBOsWBvO
Paperback, 2018
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pathetic Literature
Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles’ hand drawn flyer for their event at @deepvellumbooks Tuesday February 21. Free, 7pm. Plus one of @bookclubisdead’s most vital rules for our bookstore. Come read & talk Pathetic Literature with us next week, all y’all. @groveatlantic @EileenMyles @DeepVellum https://t.co/UXMEwW5MwN
Paperback, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City
Jim Schutze
CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm, & Jim Schutze & I joined their Dallas HQ & Richardson campus for talks on The Accommodation & history of racism in real estate in Dallas. The entire C suite of CBRE read The Accommodation & sponsored @Big_D_Reads https://t.co/P1Vz85HoVG
Hardcover, 2021
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Exalted
Anna Dorn
Also huge shoutouts to friends & inspirations, Los Angeles's own @unnamedpress w/ Anna Dorn's nomination for EXALTED, & to the all time legends & forever inspirations @NewDirections for Fernanda Melchor's PARADAÍS, translated by Sophie Hughes!
Hardcover, 2022
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Diary of a Malayali Madman
N. Prahakaran
Out for a Google Street View stroll in Dharmadam, India today & discovered a Grand Tejas Wedding Centre. Celebrate the Tejas-Kerala love w/ the Malayali-Dallas book Diary of a Malayali Madman by N. Prabhakaran, translated by Jayasree Kalathil! https://t.co/ms4qofWtmr @DeepVellum https://t.co/2CZaCsK1bd
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eve Out of Her Ruins
Ananda Devi
Congratulations to all, including Ananda Devi, whose remarkable Eve Out of Her Ruins we are lucky to publish at @DeepVellum @deepvellumbooks in @J_Zuckerman’s translation! https://t.co/3SO0tZiPIX
Paperback, 2016
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book