Join us in the bookstore at 6pm for the Dallas launch of The Invisible Years by Rodrigo Hasbún, translated by Lily Meyer. Rodrigo and Lily will be in conversation with Riley Rennhack.

Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian writer and screenwriter. He is the author of eight works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Affections (Simon & Schuster), which received an English PEN Award and has been translated into twelve languages. Named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2010, Hasbún’s short stories have appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Houston.

Lily Meyer is a translator, critic, and author of the novels Short War (Deep Vellum) and The End of Romance (Viking). A contributing writer at The Atlantic, her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird (Deep Vellum) and Ice for Martians (Columbia University Press).

Photo credit: Pete Kiehart

Riley Rennhack has been working with and around books for most of her adult life, and she has been a fanatical reader for as long as I can remember. She grew up in DFW, but spent a decade in NYC reading and writing and getting paid to sell books. At one time or another she has been a teacher, a performance artist, a translator, a barista, a poet, a domestic worker, and a booking agent. She has also been a judge for the Cercador Prize and the Firecracker awards, and for five years she was the buyer and manager at Deep Vellum Books. As of December 2024, she is a mom—by far the coolest and most radical thing she’s ever done.