Mining the Dalkey Archive Podcast
Mining the Dalkey Archive Podcast
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Literary history and analysis of Dalkey Archive Press's catalog. dalkeyarchive.substack.com
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The podcast explores themes including literary criticism, author-focused discussions, and contextual analysis with episodes analyzing works like Herman Melville’s 'The Confidence-Man' and Marguerite Young’s 'Miss MacIntosh, My Darling'. The hosts engage in in-depth conversations about narrative techniques, cultural implications, and the reception of classic literature.
Literary history and analysis of Dalkey Archive Press’s catalog.
Vince (A Book No One Wants) and Chad talk about Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s novella, The Dregs of the Day, translated from the Irish by Alan Titley. Dregs is available from from Yale University Press, who also published The Dirty Dust&Graveyard Clay—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, 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.
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