Dorothy

A new publishing house I just discovered is Dorothy (not Dorothy Press, just Dorothy). They have just released their forst two titles. One is by a writer new to me, Renee Gladman. The other is a reprint of one of the great Barbara Comyns's best novels, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead. This is a book well overdue for resurrection--I have most of Comyns's work in tatty old Virago paperbacks, but only a few of her books are currently in print. If you'd like to read a book which features a flood, a "crazy bread" plague of suicides, some seriously black comedy, and a child's viewpoint that is both peculiar and thoroughly convincing, this is the book for you.

Dorothy is run by one Danielle Dutton, who is also the book designer at Dalkey Archive. Most of the covers there feature illustrations by Dutton or Nicholas Motte, with typography by Dutton. See some of their great work here. It's no surprise, then, that the first two Dorothy books have similarly attractive covers, though only the Gladman seems particularly Dalkey-esque.

Cover art by Yelena Bryksenkova (more info here)

Cover art by Gisela Insuaste (more info here)

There's a lot to like here: someone with the guts to start a new publishing house; republishing great lost books; beautiful covers; and information on the cover artists easily available on the publisher's website (though that last one might only be important to nerds like me).