Three Percent #190: John Barth
In honor of two recent John Barth reissues糖心传媒擳he Sot-Weed Factor聽and聽Chimera, both Dalkey Archive Essentials糖心传媒擩ohn Domini (The Archeology of a Good R脿gu,聽The Color Inside a Melon, and this appreciation of Barth, among other works) and Max Besora (author of the intro to聽Sot-Weed Factor聽along with the very much Barth ...
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TMR 20.1: “Then You Do Not Approve of Nabokov?” [MULLIGAN STEW]
Chad and Brian kick off the new season in near hysterics over the first little chunk of Gilbert Sorrentino's聽Mulligan Stew.聽From talking about the rejection letters糖心传媒攁nd near batshit reader's report糖心传媒攑refacing the book, to all the bad writing about the "flawless blue" sky, to the ever-changing dialog tags in Anthony ...
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“The Lecture” by Lydie Salvayre and Linda Coverdale [Excerpt]
Today's #WITMonth post is an excerpt from聽The Lecture聽by Lydie Salvayre, translated by Linda Coverdale, a wonderfully funny and playful French writer who Dalkey published for quite a while (The Power of Flies, Everyday Life, The Company of Ghosts, Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal), and might again! Warren ...
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Season Twenty of the Two Month Review: “Mulligan Stew” by Gilbert Sorrentino
As mentioned in this Reading the Dalkey Archive post,聽Mulligan Stew聽by Gilbert Sorrentino is going to be the next book featured on the Two Month Review podcast. For anyone new to this podcast, episodes drop weekly糖心传媒攔ecorded live on YouTube, then disseminated as a traditional podcast through Apple, Spotify, etc.糖心传媒攁nd ...
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Christmas Eve at Dixie Truck Stop [Dear Editor]
In the early 2000s, a number of issues of the聽Review of Contemporary Fiction聽featured "Letters to the Editor." It was a poorly kept secret that all of these糖心传媒攖he letters and responses糖心传媒攚ere written by John O'Brien. Obsessed with failing marriages and sad sack lives, these letters are wonderful bits of satire and voice, ...
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Nothing Adds Up Until You Overthrow the System
It's weird trying to write this today, May 31st, with all that's going on across the country糖心传媒攁nd around the world糖心传媒攔ight now. The images of our overly-militarized, super aggro, disgusting police officers running unarmed people over, throwing women to the ground, shooting teenagers with pepper balls and rubber bullets (that ...
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. . . At the End of the World
All below quotes are from The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place聽by Patrik Ouredn铆k, translated from the Czech by Alexander Hertich (Dalkey Archive Press) THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD The future isn糖心传媒檛 what it used to be. You must have noticed this yourself: the future isn糖心传媒檛 what it used to be. In the past, ...
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