Dalkey Archive Press

Juan Filloy's Op Oloop

i think this is really good but im not really sure i can put together why.

The Michal Ajvaz books are both astonishing. The Other City is the more accessible, a fantasy of what goes on in Prague when you're not looking that reminded me of Bruno Schulz and the Little Nemo strips. Golden Age is more demanding, but worth sticking with. I will pre-order anything else that comes up in translation.

I loved The Golden Age, just got The Other City from the library

The Ajvaz are amazing - read The Other City a few years ago just before we spent a week in Prague, & The Golden Age reminds me of some of the Chinese classics.

Anyone read Wilfrido Nolledo's But For The Lovers or Salvador Espriu's Ariadne In The Grotesque Labyrinth? Really wish I still lived near a place where bookstores would have Dalkey Archive displays.

This is pretty crazy: http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/aboutus/?fa=Employment

Though I would seriously love to work at Dalkey... But still!

lol they fuckin nuts

wow

such a comprehensive way of changing your feelings toward dalkey archive press

thats really terrible

i couldn't be bothered reading all the way through but in this intern on intern deathmatch, is it the case that some of those who do not emerge triumphant will have given up their life, let their ill parents die without visiting &c & yet never be paid?

they're so gross

Any of the following will be grounds for immediate dismissal during the probationary period: coming in late or leaving early without prior permission; being unavailable at night or on the weekends; failing to meet any goals; giving unsolicited advice about how to run things; taking personal phone calls during work hours; gossiping; misusing company property, including surfing the internet while at work; submission of poorly written materials; creating an atmosphere of complaint or argument; failing to respond to emails in a timely way; not showing an interest in other aspects of publishing beyond editorial; making repeated mistakes; violating company policies. DO NOT APPLY if you have a work history containing any of the above.

DO NOT APPLY if you have ever been unavailable at night or on the weekends

Good riddance to these guys, then.

btw I was talking to some dude who worked at dalkey last year (this was last year, dont know what the sitch is now) but he said their best seller far and away was the the third policeman because it was featured in Lost for like 3 seconds so even if they were able to pay I doubt it would be any sort of living wage maybe i'm wrong idk

Well, being a small firm who might require some voluntary effort for the love of the work is one thing... actually sounding like an angry cult leader in your job posting is another...

https://twitter.com/DalkeyIntern/

id like to think the advert was vaguely meta or at least viralbait

i think on some level that would be more depressing than it being totally sincere

more than vaguely meta but still illjudged tbh

three, two, one....

Dalkey boss now trying to pass it off as Jonathan Swift-style comedy.

You can see the defence here: http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pursuedbyabear/2012/12/13/dalkey-archive-responds-to-that-job-advertisement/

The first bit (The advertisement was a modest proposal) could theoretically wash if he didn't follow it up with shit like this:

I’ve seen so many applications to Dalkey in which CVs list upwards of six internships, which tend to smack of ‘we looked, we evaluated, and didn’t think the person was good enough to keep’

Some of those could be because the candidate wasn't good enough, but an awful lot of those will be because shitheads like you force people into internships and will only offer a job if they become estranged from family, friends and their own soul.

Employers do not offer internships out of the goodness of their heart

Lol, no shit. Dude, you offer internships so you can get free labour.

interns aren’t employees

So you don't have to pay them.

they have to do something worthwhile for the company or why else have them around; but, at the same time, they don’t have much to offer because they don’t have the knowledge or experience to do very much

Maybe try looking at some with multiple placements, then? That sounds like experience to me. Oh, but no, you might have to pay them at the end.

Fucking internships are such a con. As far as I know we don't have them in Australia. Slave labour bullshit.

I've never been sure as to how legal they are. I was under the impression that if you were "shadowing" someone who is working, you don't need to be paid but if you are doing actual work you have to get minimum wage but idk.

"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!