Ted McDermott (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.

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