Tag: fiction

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 29, 2015

Academic Freedom and Literature – Author Events This Week

A list of CUP author events for the coming week.

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!

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.

January 22, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: "Samuel Taylor's Last Night," by Joe Amato

Today’s Thursday Fiction Corner post features Joe Amato’s recently published novel, Samuel Taylor’s Last Night. Read reviews from the LARB and IHE, as well as a short excerpt from the novel!

January 15, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: "The Tingling, Tangling Tango as 'tis Tripped at Coney Island," by Djuna Barnes

Read “The Tingling, Tangling Tango as ’tis Tripped at Coney Island,” a short peace originally published in the Eagle in 1914, by Djuna Barnes, excerpted from A CONEY ISLAND READER.

December 15, 2014

A Q&A with Janet Poole on Modernist Literature in Korea

Read an interview with Janet Poole in which she discusses her book WHEN THE FUTURE DISAPPEARS: THE MODERNIST IMAGINATION IN LATE COLONIAL KOREA!

November 6, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: A Conversation with Julio Cortázar

Read an interview with Julio Cortazar in today’s Thursday Fiction Corner!

September 11, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Interview with Dorothy Tse, author of Snow and Shadow

“I don’t regard my stories as departing from conventionally understood reality. I think humans are adapting and transforming themselves in radical ways. If we can eat meat made in a science lab, then it’s possible for a woman to change...

July 24, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Interview with Paul Emond, author of The Dance of a Sham

Read an interview with Paul Emond, the author of THE DANCE OF A SHAM, and Becky McMullan.

July 17, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Interview with Andrej Blatnik

Read an interview with Dalkey Archive Press author Andrej Blatnik on his recent short story collection LAW OF DESIRE!