The Best Writers in the World Have a Dallas Address
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What this talk is about
The Hang Theory. A lecture series by Hang Dallas.
One speaker. One big idea. One good room.
Where · 2700 SWISS Event Space.
The title is a claim, and Will Evans has spent over a decade building the infrastructure to prove it. Since founding Deep Vellum Publishing in Dallas in 2013, he has published over 1,000 books in translation from 70 languages, making Deep Vellum the largest publisher of translated literature in the United States. This talk examines what it takes to build an alternative literary culture in Texas, on purpose, and why Dallas became the unlikely center of that effort.
How the night goes
Doors at 6:30 PM. Claim a seat, settle in.
We kick things off around 6:55 PM.
Will Evans takes the floor at 7:00 PM.
Questions from the room near 7:45 PM.
Then we linger. Meet the speaker, meet each other, around 8:00 PM.
Out by 8:30 PM.
Who's speaking
Will Evans
Will Evans is an award-winning publisher, writer, translator, bookstore founder, professor, and literary arts advocate. In 2013, he founded Deep Vellum, a nonprofit publishing house and bookstore, dedicated to bringing the world into conversation through literature by publishing the world’s vital stories by underrepresented writers, and cultivating a lifelong love of reading through creative programming and outspoken advocacy for the literary arts. He has been awarded CLMP's Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing, admitted to the Texas Institute of Letters, named a Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture, and knighted by France as a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters. He received BA degrees in History and Russian Literature from Emory University, and an MA in Russian Culture from Duke University. His translation of Russian writer Oleg Kashin's novel Fardwor, Russia: A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin was published by Restless Books in 2016. He teaches courses on Publishing and World Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas and SMU.
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2700 SWISS Event Space · Dallas, TX