Mining the Dalkey Archive Podcast

"The Dregs of the Day" by Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Vince (A Book No One Wants [https://www.vincentfrancone.com/new-products-1]) and Chad talk about Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s novella, The Dregs of the Day [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300242775], translated from the Irish by Alan Titley. Dregs is available from from Yale University Press, who also published The Dirty Dust [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300219821] & Graveyard Clay [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300227062]—two very different translations of the same book, and the primary topic for a good chunk of this episode. In terms of The Dregs of the Day [https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300242775], it’s about a widower who doesn’t want to deal with the practicalities of his wife’s passing and instead drinks and bumbles his way through an Irish weekend . . . This episode’s music is “When I Was Done Dying” 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]

"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]