Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) is best known as the author of Nightwood, one of the finest novels of the modernist period. She published works in virtually every genre: short stories, poetry, journalism, drama, and pastiche, often illustrated with her own drawings. A notorious figure in the 1920s and 1930s, she became a recluse in her later years and was largely forgotten. But since her death, a major biography and several critical studies have established her importance in 20th-century literature. Dalkey Archive Press has reissued her Nightwood, Ryder, and Ladies Almanack.

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, and AIDS historian. Her 21st book is The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.

"Ladies Almanack bend[s] language to its whims as it feverishly chronicles the characters' lust, longing, and elation... Imagine a fragmented literary romp full of bawdy allusions inspired by gossip from your snarkiest group chat." --The Believer

"Ladies Almanack bend[s] language to its whims as it feverishly chronicles the characters' lust, longing, and elation... Imagine a fragmented literary romp full of bawdy allusions inspired by gossip from your snarkiest group chat." -The Believer