This week’s publisher episode focuses on one of our very favorites: Dalkey Archive. Founded nearly 40 years ago, Dalkey specializes in “lesser-known and often avant-garde works.” Trevor and Paul each share a few of their favorite titles and announce an exciting Dalkey giveaway. Be sure to share your favorite for a chance to win!
Giveaway Details
We are excited to give away three Dalkey Archive books to a lucky listener with a U.S. address*.
Please send us an email (or dm on Instagram or Twitter) telling us your interest in The Dalkey Archive! That’s it! We recommend getting these to us by the end of day Friday, December 15 because we will be drawing the winner early the next day!
*Unfortunately, due to high shipping costs, this giveaway is limited to U.S. addresses. We are sorry! We do love our international listeners!
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Shownotes
Basic Black with Pearls, by Helen Weinzweig
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal and Sylvester Mazzarella
The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
Fair Play, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
The True Deceiver, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
Joseph and His Brothers, by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods
Afterword, by Nina Schuyler
Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories, by Anthony Trollope
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, by L. Frank Baum
A Merry Christmas: And Other Christmas Stories, by Louisa May Alcott
The Night Before Christmas, by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Konstantin Makovsky
The Nutcracker, by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
Can You Forgive Her?, by Anthony Trollope
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark
Vlad, by Carlos Fuentes, translated by E. Shaskan Bumas and Alejandro Branger
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young
Atagony, by Luis Goytisolo, translated by Brendan Riley
Götz and Meyer, by David Albahari, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Bottom’s Dream, by Arno Schmidt, translated by John E. Woods
At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O’Brien
The Dalkey Archive, by Flann O’Brien
Reticence, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, translated by John Lambert
Europeana: A Brief History of the 20th Century, by Patrik Ouredník, translated by Gerald Turner
Suicide, by Edouard Levé, translated by Jan Steyn
Through the Night, by Sting Sæterbakken, translated by Seán Kinsella
Autoportrait, by Edouard Levé, translated by Lorin Stein
Trilogy, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt
Demolishing Nisard, by Eric Chevillard, translated by Jordan Stump
Eros the Bittersweet, by Anne Carson
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Episode 68: The Dalkey Archive