Mining the Dalkey Archive Podcast

<p>Rather than focus on a single book this month, Chad and Vince discuss a range of Irish titles (and one British one) that they’d like to read this year. Some of these are new, some old, some will be featured on the...

<p>From now until 1/31/26, EVERY Open Letter title is 40% off! Shop now!!</p><p>Last January, Matt Martinson started an approximately ten-year project of reading every single Dalkey Archive title (based on this...

<p>Rob Doyle (The Other Irish Tradition (ed.), Here Are the Young Men) joins Vince Francone and Chad to talk about his most recent book, Threshold, and to tease his forthcoming novel, Cameo. Through the lens of Doyle’s...

<p>Given that Mark Polizzotti is publisher, author, translator, and literary executor for the Harry Mathews estate, this podcast covers a wide range of topics and authors. The conversation starts with information on the...

<p>Although Dalkey Archive did publish two works by Desmond Hogan (A Farewell to Prague, The House of Mourning and Other Stories), this episode covers The Ikon Maker, Hogan’s first novel from 1976, reissued in 2013 by...

<p>Without question, Gertrude Stein was one of the most influential writers of the past century. And thanks to the three guests on this episode—Francesa Wade (Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife) and Cecilia Konchar Farr &...

<p>On this episode of this Irish Edition of the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast, Chad and Vince talk about Brigid Brophy’s 1969 masterpiece, In Transit, a novel that is trans-positive at its core. They talk about...

<p>Adam Levin (The Instructions, Mount Chicago) comes on the podcast to break down the Top Five Stanley Elkin novels according to Chad’s silly and fun “Power Rankings.” They talk about what makes Elkin so great, which...

<p>Two of Allison a. deFreese’s recent translations are the focus on this particular episode: Elegy for Joseph Cornell by María Negroni and Flame Trees in May by Karla Marrufo. She talks about how these books came to...

<p>Chad and Vince struggle to talk about Bernard Share’s two novels available from Dalkey Archive Press: Inish and Transit. More respect than love for these books, which leads to an interesting discussion about how to...

<p>In this month’s installment in the ongoing look at Dalkey Archive’s Irish Literature Series, Vince and Chad discuss The Dogs of Inishere by Alannah Hopkin, a short story collection from 2017. They talk about the...

<p>On this entry into the Irish-centric thread of this podcast Vince Francone (The Soft Lunacy, Like a Dog, A Book No One Wants) and Chad W. Post are joined by Angela Weaser, the longest tenured Dalkey Archive employee...

<p>Declan O’Driscoll (The Irish Times) joins Vincent Francone (A Book No One Wants) and Chad W. Post to talk about Tom O’Neill’s Grattan and Me, a brilliantly funny, perceptive book about a Quixote-esque civil servant...

<p>Dan O’Brien joins Chad to talk about the new edition of his memoir, From Scarsdale: A Childhood, his other two Dalkey Archive books (A Story that Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas, True Story: A...

<p>Special guest Tobias Carroll (In the Sight, Political Sign, and Reel, among other books and projects) joins Chad to discuss Andrew Elias Colarusso’s 2017 novel, The Sovereign, one of two titles in the Puerto Rican...