The Guest Lecture

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Martin Riker is the co-founder of Dorothy, a Publishing Project, the feminist press that he runs with his wife, the writer Danielle Dutton. They have published and championed writers including Nell Zink, Renee Gladman, and Cristina Rivera Garza, among many others. Publishers Weekly recently published a short piece on Dorothy as it transitions to being distributed by the New York Review of Books: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/89399-dorothy-a-successful-experimental-publishing-project.html.Riker's debut novel, Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return, was published by Coffee House Press in 2018. It received wonderful reviews in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the New Yorker, among others.Riker is an indie bookstore fan favorite both as a writer and through his work at Dorothy. Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return was an Indies Introduce selection, and for this new book, we already have avid fans in booksellers Spencer Ruchti, Mark Haber, and Caitlin Luce Baker, and hope to pursue an Indie Next nomination.The Guest Lecture is the brilliant and inventive second novel from Riker that is both playfully accessible and intellectually rigorous. It has a sense of voice and humor that will appeal to readers of Patricia Lockwood and Elif Batuman, balanced with a cerebral gravitas that recalls the work of Jenny Offill and Ben Lerner.Riker received his MA in English and Creative Writing from Illinois State University, where his thesis advisor was David Foster Wallace, who described him as ?energetic, inquisitive, intellectually ambitious, artistically incandescent, heroically sane, ? and his fiction as a ?mix of avant-garde sophistication and deep, Realist-type concern for character.?Riker is an active and respected critic of contemporary fiction and literature in translation who has written for the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian. He additionally teaches on these topics at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is a senior lecturer.