Dalkey Archive Press has just reissused two of the most important texts of the past sixty years–William Gaddis’s The Recognitions and JR. Introductions are by William H. Gass and Rick Moody.
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William Gaddis Occupies Wall Street in JR
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalkey Archive Press, Jr., New York Stock Exchange, Occupy Wall Street, The Recognitions, William Gaddis on March 5, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Dalkey Archive Press
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Champaign, Dalkey Archive Press, Jeremy M. Davies, John O'Brien, Mecca, realtor-walkthrough video on December 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Until I make my pilgrimage to Champaign, this realtor-walkthrough video of Dalkey Archive’s warehouse (squired by founder John O’Brien, no less!) will have to do: Icouldn’tgetthisvideotoembednomatterwhatIdidsopleaseclickheretoseethevideoit’sworthitIpromise With some insight into the workings and history of Dalkey from O’Brien and Jeremy Davies.
Gabriel Blackwell on Stanley Elkin’s Boswell
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Boswell, Dalkey Archive Press, Gabriel Blackwell, Searches and Seizures: 3 Novellas, Stanely Elkin on September 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
ABOUT BOSWELL I am, by way of introduction, perpetually adjunct; not quite ad hoc, still not joined. Inessential. A barnacle, an on-looker, a modifier. I worry. What encomiums for the adjunct? I am a “Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing.” This is already my second year of visiting, my reunion with familiarity, a second chance [...]
This is the book I’m most looking forward to this year
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Alvin Lucier, Dalkey Archive Press, David Behrman, David Van Tieghem, Eric Bogosian, Four American Composers, Gordon Mumma, Jill Kroesen, John Cage, John Sanborn, Laurie Anderson, Lovely Music, Meredith Monk, Music with Roots in the Aether, Pauline Oliveros, Perfect Lives, Peter Greenaway, Philip Glass, Robert Ashley, Spalding Gray, Terry Riley, UbuWeb on July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
And it’s a reprint, and I already own the original: It’s that good.
A Pan-English Dictionary (for readers of Harry Mathews’s The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalkey Archive Press, Franz Kafka, Harry Mathews, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium on July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
J.R.R. Tolkien’s not the only novelist who invented fictional languages! In Harry Mathews‘s early masterpiece, the epistolary novel The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, newlyweds Zachary McCaltex and Twang Panattapam, separated by the Atlantic, exchange letters in which they “try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in [...]
A Review of Susan Daitch’s Storytown
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Dalkey Archive Press, John Madera, Storytown, Susan Daitch on June 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Storytown, Susan Daitch’s first collection, is a singular achievement, displaying a virtuosic command of technique in service to a kind of fractured narrativity, one privileging ellipsis, ambiguity, and odd displacement over the merely episodic, that is, the kind of predictable pit-pat pit-pat of the pitiful stuff that passes for fiction these days. These open-ended investigations [...]
1 of 100
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalkey Archive Press, Stanley Elkin on November 8, 2010 | 13 Comments »
I’m giving a lot of thought to the 100 titles I’m going to order from Dalkey Archive Press this year. I think I’ve just found my #1: Stanley Elkin’s Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & Criers. Here’s an excerpt from “A Poetics for Bullies”: Suddenly I raise my arms and he stops. I feel a power [...]
Reading Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds: A Primer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged At Swim-Two-Birds, Brendan Gleeson, Buile Shuibhne, Dalkey Archive Press, Euripides, Finn Mac Cool, Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, King Arthur, Mad Sweeney, Pooka, Pucca, Shannon River, Sweeney Astray, The Pooka, The Pooka MacPhellimey, Thomas C. Foster on March 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
See Greg’s post for the reading schedule (and I hope you’ll join us). This post collects some resources to assist with anyone reading Flann O’Brien’s great comic novel. A pint of plain is your only man, but when reading ASTB, your second should be: The Dalkey Casebook This is available in its entirety online; I’d [...]
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009: #4: Jeremy M. Davies’s Rose Alley
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cigarettes, Counterpath Press, Dalkey Archive Press, Harry Mathews, Jeremy M. Davies, John Dryden, Lily Hoang, London, May 1968, Paris, Rose Alley, The Decameron, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium on December 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
#1 | #2 | #3 #4. Rose Alley by Jeremy M. Davies (Counterpath Press, 2009)
what you read what i read, part ii
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Babyfucker, Book of Disquietude, Dalkey Archive Press, Europeana, FC2, Fernando Pessoa, Fugue State Press, Jeff Clark, Les Figues Press, Mati Unt, Patrik Ourednik, Ruins, Shane Jones, Steve Tomasula, The Failure Six, Things in the Night, TOC, Turtle Point Press, Urs Allemann on November 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
because folks liked my last version of this, for your viewing pleasure, below are the books i read last week. it’s a pretty exciting list: 1. Patrik Ourednik’s Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (Dalkey Archive, 2005): The twentieth century boiled down to painstakingly concise and shocking truths. No one is left unscathed [...]
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