Category: Fiction

June 29, 2015

Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature

   We were very excited to read today’s New York Times included an article on our ambitious and very exciting new series of Russian literature in translation. The series, tentatively titled the Russian Library (on Twitter at @RusLibrary) will publish...

May 14, 2015

On the making of trout amandine and cauliflower gratin, an excerpt from "The Author and Me"

Read an excerpt from 2015 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction finalist THE AUTHOR AND ME, written by Éric Chevillard and translated by Jordan Stump.

May 8, 2015

Friday Fiction Corner: Éric Chevillard, the Best Translated Book Awards, and Cauliflower

Congratulations to Éric Chevillard, Jordan Stump, and the team at Dalkey Archive Press! Chevillard’s THE AUTHOR AND ME has been named as a finalist for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction!

May 1, 2015

David Foster Wallace on Hedonism

Read “Wallace on Hedonism,” excerpted from “David Foster Wallace on the Good Life,” Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi’s essay in FREEDOM AND THE SELF: ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE.

April 30, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: David Foster Wallace on Ironism

Read “Wallace on Ironism,” excerpted from “David Foster Wallace on the Good Life,” Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi’s essay in FREEDOM AND THE SELF: ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE.

April 29, 2015

Read Steven Cahn and Maureen Eckert’s Introduction to Freedom and the Self

Read Steven Cahn and Maureen Eckert’s Introduction to their anthology of essays on the philosophy of David Foster Wallace, FREEDOM AND THE SELF.

April 28, 2015

David Foster Wallace as a Philosophy Student and a Philosopher

FREEDOM AND THE SELF is an anthology of essays engaging directly with David Foster Wallace’s challenge to Richard Taylor’s famous argument for fatalism, published in FATE, TIME, AND LANGUAGE. In today’s post, read an excerpt and watch videos that set the stage for our feature on FREEDOM AND THE SELF by explaining DFW’s philosophical work from FATE, TIME, AND LANGUAGE.

April 9, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: Our 2015 Best Translated Book Award Nominees!

Congratulations to four distributed press titles that made the longlists for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction or Poetry!

March 17, 2015

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a list of great Dalkey Archive Press titles in their Irish Literature Series!

March 12, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: James Davis on the Writing of Eric Walrond

James Davis discusses what makes the writing of Eric Walrond so powerful and distinctive.

February 26, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: Interview with Ishmael Reed

Read an interview with Ishmael Reed, from Dalkey Archive Press’s Review of Contemporary Fiction.

February 12, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner — Minae Mizumura As Novelist

Minae Mizumura, author of The Fall of Language in the Age of English is also a well-known novelist. Her most recent novel, A True Novel, is a reimagining of Wuthering Heights and has been widely praised, including a glowing review...