Dalkey Archive Press

I have "This Is Not A Novel" but I've never gotten around to reading it. It seems like "Reader's Block" all over again.

I didn't know that Paul Eater was a Mylesian!

Also: unlike the Yanks, I have never seen a Dalkey Archive book remaindered. In fact, I think I have never seen one.

I saw and bought Yves Navarre's Sweet Tooth and Barthes' Letters on remainder recently. Seen Stein, Barnes' Ryder, Sorretino's Red the Fiend but passed on them.

Couple of others bought as bday presents...

More Search and Destroy you all - looking at the Latin American series yesterday, but need any golden nuggets as xmas is coming soon...

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog?order_by=Series

For what it's worth, I just did an interview with the chap who's designing their lovely new covers:
http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-with-nicholas-motte.html

Is he related to Warren Motte?

OK, I clicked. He is.

Ok, so I picked the 10 books for $60 dollars option. I've always wanted to check out "Christ Versus Arizona" and Toussaint's books are going on my list. Anybody got any suggestions? I'm open to all types of books, would love some interesting Lit Crit. I love Dalkey.

The above post refers to the Holiday sale Dalkey is having now.

this one looks good

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-stanley-crawford14-2008sep14,0,2805562.story

also

David Markson--Reader's Block, Wittgenstein's Mistress
Flann O'Brien--Third Policeman, At Swim Two Birds

Stefan Themerson- Tom Harris. I bought the other two but haven't read them yet.
Gilbert Sorrentino- Aberration of Starlight, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things.

Anne Carson - Eros The Bittersweet. I had to read this for a class in college and was surprised how much I ended up liking it. It's kind of like Barthes' Lovers' Discourse, but grounded in classics and lot better imo.

If you love Dalkey, you've probably read Harry Matthews, but if not pick-up Cigarettes or My Life in CIA. They're both atypical for him and I think a lot more interesting than his OULIPO texts.

Has anybody hear read the Dalkey edition of Bouvard and pecuchet? How does the translation compare to the old Penguin one?

that crawford book is great!

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/images/book/cover/166/things_in_the_night.jpg?1207918638

this was a pretty good book.

i'm gonna have maria buy me the four ann quin novels that dalkey has reissued (for christmas). i need to read those.

Thanks. I just put in my order, here are my 10:

1. Christ Versus Arizona , Cela
2. Oulipo : A Primer of Potential Literature , Motte
3. Theory of Prose , Scklovsky
4. The Counterfeiters , Kenner
5. Flaubert, Joyce, Beckett: The Stoic Comedians , Kenner
6. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things , Sorrentino
7,8,9,10 Arno Schmidt's four volume catalog

I'm excited, but I got the Schmidt stuff on a complete whim. I know NOTHING about him.

Aww, US-only offer. I wanted to buy a hundred books when they had that amazing offer a while back, but was too slow to build up a list of titles.

Is Gass too obvious to be mentioned here? "The Tunnel" is fantastic. I just got a copy of the essay-collection "Temple of Texts", which looks really good too. (I recently ordered nearly all the Gass books I don't have, in a moment of materialistic exuberance)

Would love to hear the audio book where he reads the novel himself, but that probably won't happen. Turns out not a single Norwegian library even has a printed copy of the book.

!!

"Turns out not a single Norwegian library even has a printed copy of the book."

How did you check on this?

Get yer library to buy them - like I do sometimes...

There are a couple of online national library database aggregate searches. That's an idea though.
Now that I've actually looked it up, I see the audio book is much, much cheaper than I expected; it's just $15.96 at the moment.

I'd recommend Max Frisch's "I'm Not Stiller", but I have hardly any memory of it at all, except that I really liked it. Sheesh.

2008: The Year I Officially Lost My Edge!

I'm Not Stiller is pretty good but by the halfway point I thought it really lost its momentum

Dalkey publishes the actinic Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus ("the antiperson"). Sample it on google books.

I didn't know they had finally put out more by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Four in total now! Those are definitely worth checking out.

Briefly looking through my shelves for something not mentioned, I seem to remember enjoying Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic.

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show/593

The big sale is here again! http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/ . What will make your list?

'Zat you, Momuspaws?

Oh no, sorry.

Sale looks like a good deal but I'd probably have to find the shelf space by getting rid of ten unread Dalkey Archives to make room for ten new ones.

feelin u

Not good outside US -- waaaaah!

Recent purchase just came in post yesterday:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564785300.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Joseph McElroy's Women and Men is no longer on their site. Hmm.

Hm.

Good luck with the Puig. I tried to read that one, but couldn't keep track of who was talking at any given time. Mak

alimosina - Does Dalkey always keep bks in print? Its an oddly under discussed novel, unlike Recognitions, GR. Which makes me very curious to read it.

I had thought so, and this interview backs me up:

"Further, I wanted these books permanently protected, which is why from the start the Press has kept all of its fiction in print, regardless of sales."

But I guess they didn't stick with that policy.

One of my all-time favorites is A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki. Put it on your list!

OK, thanks for the tip.

Tried to find something besides the McElroy that went out of print but couldn't. Maybe it was at the author's request?

Nobody repped for Felipe Alfau yet, the loony Spaniard with a day job writing in English for his dresser drawer? I will then.

Read a review of the Konwicki a few weeks ago so am on the look out -- sounds great, on my list!

Jiri Grusa's The Questionnaire is another good 'un (he spent two months in jail for distributing it), really now getting a focus on the post-Stalinist lit of the Eastern states in the period just before the collapse of the Soviet union.

Love the hell out of Stanley Elkin (who i guess I got to through Gass, who I see I've mentioned upthread)
Get The Franchiser; my god, it's a fucking celebration!

I've fallen for the hype and ordered a copy of Witz. We'll see how it turns out.

"Dalkey Archive" is such an awful name for a publisher anyway, also comparing that joblisting to O'Brien etc on a satirical level is just awful (it does kinda read like it was meant that way, but clumsily fails to hide a basic "we're a gigantic bunch of pretentious cocks" tendency), good riddance again

Could be good.

https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/

Yeah

This is very much my thing. Chad Post is great.

One of these days I’ve gotta get around to reading Miss Macintosh My Darling.

Did anyone read that novel Dodge Rose they put out a few years back? I read about 20 pages and found it completely impenetrable, saw some people online discussing whether it was an elaborate hoax.

Nope. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was a hoax. I haven't bothered with Dalkey's new releases for years, and Chad talks about the decline of Dalkey so I'm very interested.

The publisher sounds like one of those colourful figures, which basically tells me there are scars to heal for a lot of ppl.

Which goes back to the Dalkey intern business...

Didn’t he pass away recently?

Yes, a couple of weeks ago. Chad and Deep Vellum are taking over at Dalkey to maintain its books in circulation, I think.

Hence this side-project.

Chad has made a lot of allusions to abusive behaviour at Dalkey over the years.

I hadn’t noticed. Just found this
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2020/12/chad-w-post-on-the-complicated-honesty-of-dalkey-archives-john-obrien-19452020

Which links to this

https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/remembering-john-obrien-dalkey-archive-chad-post

Just got an email from Chad.

Me too. A fascinating read!

At one point I had both versions of Splendide-Hôtel.

Looking forward to reading the latest missive which I just received

Amazing!

Latest one arrived today.

And another one. Really good.

Is anyone else reading these but me?

I haven't been but I might have a read over soon. Are there any particularly good ones?

I've read most of them. If you read any then read the first one.

https://t.e2ma.net/webview/0lq5ii/9cffabafe0a497b406320c176535faee

Letter on the relaunch

Dalkey is back.

https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/marshland

They are also reissuing writing like this.

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling pic.twitter.com/DGsHX86CYe

— Shannon Burns (@sjaburns) January 7, 2022

!

Ugh, that’s been on my bookshelf unread for so long.

I want to hear the promised stories about publishing Omega Minor, translated from Dutch by the author!

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/more-is-more/

…and another post from Chad.

What’s going on with these upcoming Dalkey Archive Essentials? Don’t think he mentioned in his newsletter.

Stoked for newly translated Michal Ajvaz https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/journey-to-the-south

Is it just me or is this a bit fucked?

For anyone who didn’t see it, we’re looking for a dozen or so people willing to proof part of MISS MACINTOSH MY DARLING. If you’re interested (we’ll give you a finished copy as payment), DM or email. Can get you the PDF and assignment this weekend!!

— Chad W. Post (@chadwpost) March 23, 2023

Proof stuff for free (one book = not free?)

Guess they never did fill that one intern position.

It is a bit fucked, but from memory they're a non-profit with him and one other half-time staff member, so they're not exactly swimming in cash.

I know...feel for Chad I suppose, he has done some good work.

And I would like to read that book. I thought it came out last year..