In this new episode, join host Rainer Schulte as he sits down with Will Evans, an award-winning publisher of Deep Vellum Publishing (2013), writer, translator, bookstore owner of Deep Vellum Books (2015), professor, and literary arts advocate. His expertise in publishing translations gives insight as to what publishers seek to publish, and discusses how and why translations are overlooked by big publishers.

You will hear about how he got started in translation and publishing, and what the future of translation looks like.

Evans was awarded CLMP's Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing in 2019, was accepted to the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022, became a Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture in 2023, and was knighted by France as a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2024. 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 Russian Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas and SMU.