"Cadenza" by Ralph Cusack

"Cadenza" by Ralph Cusack

Vince (A Book No One Wants [https://www.vincentfrancone.com/new-products-1]) and Chad talk about Ralph Cusack’s only novel, Cadenza [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780916583057], a semi-surreal trip on a train through time and space. They discuss the humor, the difficulty holding on to the prose, Anthony Cronin’s criticisms from Dead As Doornails [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781628976434], and then digress off into myriad topics . . . Next month Vince and Chad will be discussing The Dregs of the Day [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300242775] by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, transalted from the Irish by Alan Titley. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mining-the-dalkey-archive-podcast/id1775814979], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/273wx9fw2NSq2ouu7pq4xe?si=5adcadd92a9245ed], or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@dalkeyarchivepress7792]. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/2TYhaWf5VI6OdNOECTYvoK?si=681ae7d075d0448d]) and Three Percent (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-percent-podcast/id1796874029], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/36YkgVsBffAq56Wz1td0vd?si=82f1f6fa8bca40e8]) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe [https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

"Things in the Night" by Mati Unt with Ted McDermott

Ted McDermott [https://www.tedmcdermott.com/] (The Minor Outsider) comes on to talk about his time at Dalkey Archive as Chad’s marketing assistant back in 2005. They talk about the ethos of the “real Dalkey,” what was going on when the press started looking abroad for great literary fiction, what’s changed at the press over the past twenty years, the critical importance of reading and knowing how to talk about the books you publish and, yes, eventually, Mati Unt’s masterpiece, Things in the Night. This episode’s music is “Electricity” by Spiritualized. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mining-the-dalkey-archive-podcast/id1775814979], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/273wx9fw2NSq2ouu7pq4xe?si=5adcadd92a9245ed], or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@dalkeyarchivepress7792]. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/2TYhaWf5VI6OdNOECTYvoK?si=681ae7d075d0448d]) and Three Percent (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-percent-podcast/id1796874029], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/36YkgVsBffAq56Wz1td0vd?si=82f1f6fa8bca40e8]) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe [https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

"Dead As Doornails" by Anthony Cronin

Ross Ufberg (writer, translator, co-founder of New Vessel Press [https://newvesselpress.com/], and author of the new introduction to the forthcoming Dalkey Archive edition of [https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/dead-as-doornails?_pos=1&_sid=d00ee13a0&_ss=r]Dead As Doornails [https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/dead-as-doornails?_pos=1&_sid=d00ee13a0&_ss=r]) joins Chad and Vince Francone (author of A Book No One Wants [https://www.vincentfrancone.com/store/a-book-no-one-wants-2]) to talk about Anthony Cronin’s memoir of mid-century Ireland and the lives of Brendan Behan, Ralph Cusack, Paddy Kavanagh, Flann O’Brien, and more. It’s a book loaded with a lotta booze and a lotta laughs, and is a wonderful portrait of a particular moment in Irish literary history. Next month Vince and Chad will be discussing Cadenza [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780916583057] by Ralph Cusack. This episode’s music is “Fairytale of New York” by The Pogues. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mining-the-dalkey-archive-podcast/id1775814979], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/273wx9fw2NSq2ouu7pq4xe?si=5adcadd92a9245ed], or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@dalkeyarchivepress7792]. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/2TYhaWf5VI6OdNOECTYvoK?si=681ae7d075d0448d]) and Three Percent (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-percent-podcast/id1796874029], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/36YkgVsBffAq56Wz1td0vd?si=82f1f6fa8bca40e8]) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe [https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Dermot Healy's "Collected Plays"

Dan O’Brien (From Scarsdale [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781628975482], True Story [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781628975130], A Story that Happens [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781628973839]) joins Vince Francone (A Book No One Wants [https://www.vincentfrancone.com/]) and Chad to discuss Dermot Healy’s Collected Plays [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781564789303]. After discussing Healy’s life and other works (A Goat’s Song in particular), they focus on a handful of the plays, including “Blood Wedding,” “The Long Swim,” “Men to the Right, Women to the Left,” “A Night at the Disco,” and “Metagama.” A lively, fun conversation about the process of reading plays versus seeing them performed, writing across genres, creating community, being a writer’s writer, and much more. Next month’s book is Dead As Doornails [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781628976434] by Anthony Cronin. A Dalkey Archive edition is coming soon, but in the meantime, this is available from Lilliput Press who is reissuing it on occasion of the book’s 50th anniversary. This episode’s music is “Blood Wedding” by Black 47. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mining-the-dalkey-archive-podcast/id1775814979], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/273wx9fw2NSq2ouu7pq4xe?si=5adcadd92a9245ed], or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@dalkeyarchivepress7792]. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/2TYhaWf5VI6OdNOECTYvoK?si=681ae7d075d0448d]) and Three Percent (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-percent-podcast/id1796874029], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/36YkgVsBffAq56Wz1td0vd?si=82f1f6fa8bca40e8]) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe [https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Christopher Sorrentino on "Scarcely Human"

On this episode, Christopher Sorrentino (Sound on Sound, Trance [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780312425319], The Fugitives [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781476795751], Now Beacon, Now Sea [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781646221561]) talks about his Substack, “Scarcely Human [https://christophersorrentino.substack.com/],” in which he documents his various writing projects playing around with LLMs, including an almost Oulipian experiment related to Raymond Roussel and Gilbert Sorrentino’s Under the Shadow . . . He also discusses the hypocritical stances of publishers, the impact of ChatGPT on literary creation, the value he’s found in using LLMs in his work, and much more. This episode’s music is “GPT” by Dan Deacon. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mining-the-dalkey-archive-podcast/id1775814979], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/273wx9fw2NSq2ouu7pq4xe?si=5adcadd92a9245ed], or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@dalkeyarchivepress7792]. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-month-review/id1778714238], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/2TYhaWf5VI6OdNOECTYvoK?si=681ae7d075d0448d]) and Three Percent (Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-percent-podcast/id1796874029], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/36YkgVsBffAq56Wz1td0vd?si=82f1f6fa8bca40e8]) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe [https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]