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!

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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