Mining the Dalkey Archive Podcast

Chad W. Post
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Literary history and analysis of Dalkey Archive Press's catalog. dalkeyarchive.substack.com

  1. Christopher Sorrentino on "Scarcely Human"

    FEB 3

    Christopher Sorrentino on "Scarcely Human"

    On this episode, Christopher Sorrentino (Sound on Sound, Trance, The Fugitives, Now Beacon, Now Sea) talks about his Substack, “Scarcely Human,” in which he documents his various writing projects playing around with LLMs, including an almost Oulipian experiment related to Raymond Roussel and Gilbert Sorrentino’s Under the Shadow . . . He also discusses the hypocritical stances of publishers, the impact of ChatGPT on literary creation, the value he’s found in using LLMs in his work, and much more. This episode’s music is “GPT” by Dan Deacon. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple, Spotify) and Three Percent (Apple, Spotify) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 10m
  2. A 2026 Irish Book Preview

    JAN 26

    A 2026 Irish Book Preview

    Rather than focus on a single book this month, Chad and Vince discuss a range of Irish titles (and one British one) that they’d like to read this year. Some of these are new, some old, some will be featured on the podcast, some won’t. But if you’re looking for some Irish books to check out, they’ve got you covered. Here’s the complete list of titles mentioned: Dead As Doornails, Anthony Cronin Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan The Great Hunger, Patrick Kavanagh The Keeper, Tana French Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, Elaine Feeney Carn, Patrick McCabe Mouthing, Orla Mackey The Key and The Dregs of the Day, Máirtín Ó Cadhain After Party, Dean Browne The Steps, Juliano Zaffino (not Irish!) Topographia Hibernica, Blindboy Boatclub Killoyle, Roger Boylan Library of Brothel, Anakana Schofield The Benefactors, Wendy Erskine First Book of Frags, Dave Lordan Bogmail, Patrick McGinley Next month Vince and Chad will be discussing The Collected Plays of Dermot Healy. (For real this time.) This episode’s music is “Angoon” by Portugal. The Man. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple, Spotify) and Three Percent (Apple, Spotify) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 26m
  3. Reading Every Single Dalkey Title

    JAN 12

    Reading Every Single Dalkey Title

    From now until 1/31/26, EVERY Open Letter title is 40% off! Shop now!! Last January, Matt Martinson started an approximately ten-year project of reading every single Dalkey Archive title (based on this spreadsheet) and writing a short poem about each one. On this episode, he talks about the project and how far along he is, trends he’s picked up on, and how he guides his reading, before a discussion Juan Goytisolo’s Exiled from Almost Everywhere (translated by Peter Bush) and Julián Ríos’s Procession of Shadows (translated by Nick Caistor), two books from two Spanish masters that pair together quite well. This episode’s music is “Bomb” by J Church. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple, Spotify) and Three Percent (Apple, Spotify) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 19m
  4. "Threshold" by Rob Doyle

    12/22/2025

    "Threshold" by Rob Doyle

    Rob Doyle (The Other Irish Tradition (ed.), Here Are the Young Men) joins Vince Francone and Chad to talk about his most recent book, Threshold, and to tease his forthcoming novel, Cameo. Through the lens of Doyle’s work, they talk about a host of topics: mushrooms, DMT, autofiction, narrative architecture, the search for spiritual enlightenment, John O’Brien, Flann O’Brien, (the always apostrophe-less) Finnegans Wake, and much more. The next book to be featured in this series is The Collected Plays of Dermot Healy. This episode’s music is “The Diamond Sea” by Sonic Youth. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple, Spotify) and Three Percent (Apple, Spotify) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 13m
  5. Mark Polizzotti on Harry Mathews Reissues, Toussaint, Echenoz . . .

    12/15/2025

    Mark Polizzotti on Harry Mathews Reissues, Toussaint, Echenoz . . .

    Given that Mark Polizzotti is publisher, author, translator, and literary executor for the Harry Mathews estate, this podcast covers a wide range of topics and authors. The conversation starts with information on the reissues of seven Harry Mathews titles (Cigarettes, The Journalist, and The Conversions are available now), then moves on to talking about Jean Echenoz (especially Chopin’s Move and Command Performance) and Jean-Philippe Toussaint (The Emotions), before wrapping with a focus on Polizzotti’s own books (Jump Cuts, Why Surrealism Matters, Sympathy for the Traitor). This episode’s music is “Works and Days” by Tortoise. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple, Spotify) and Three Percent (Apple, Spotify) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 2m
  6. "The Ikon Maker" by Desmond Hogan

    11/19/2025

    "The Ikon Maker" by Desmond Hogan

    Although Dalkey Archive did publish two works by Desmond Hogan (A Farewell to Prague, The House of Mourning and Other Stories), this episode covers The Ikon Maker, Hogan’s first novel from 1976, reissued in 2013 by Lilliput Press. Vince and Chad talk about this short, moving book about a woman whose adult son has moved to England and fallen out of touch, about the forthcoming (in 2039?) opera of Finnegans Wake, about Hogan’s disturbing conviction and ensuing disappearance, about the way sexuality is portrayed in The Ikon Maker, and much more. The next book to be featured in this series is Threshold by Rob Doyle. (Who also wrote about the reissues of both The Ikon Maker and A Farewell to Prague.) This episode’s music is “McLeyvier” by Rich Aucoin. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple, Spotify) and Three Percent (Apple, Spotify) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 16m
  7. Launching the Steinaissance

    11/05/2025

    Launching the Steinaissance

    Without question, Gertrude Stein was one of the most influential writers of the past century. And thanks to the three guests on this episode—Francesa Wade (Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife) and Cecilia Konchar Farr & Janie Sisson (As I Was Saying: A Companion to Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans)—along with the forthcoming Dalkey Essentials edition of The Making of Americans, Stein is having a moment. To celebrate these three books, we discuss Stein’s literary reputation, why people are “afraid” to read The Making of Americans, the role that being a lesbian woman has played in her general reception, the influence she’s had since her passing, and Leo Katz’s long, illuminating conversations with Alice Toklas after Stein’s passing. A very upbeat, exciting podcast about a writer who was way ahead of her time. This episode’s music is “Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano” by John Cage (who sites Stein as an influence), performed by Orlando Bass in Vienna at the Konzertsaal @ Das MuTh, during the Impulstanz festival. 02/08/2022. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple, Spotify) and Three Percent (Apple, Spotify) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 13m
  8. "In Transit" by Brigid Brophy

    10/29/2025

    "In Transit" by Brigid Brophy

    On this episode of this Irish Edition of the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast, Chad and Vince talk about Brigid Brophy’s 1969 masterpiece, In Transit, a novel that is trans-positive at its core. They talk about Joycean punning and experimental structures, Chad’s love of airports (weirdo), masculine vs. feminine writing, Brophy and Brooke-Rose and literary history, and much more. The next book to be featured in this series is The Ikon Maker by Desmond Hogan. This episode’s music is “In the Margins” by The Lemonheads. You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube. And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple, Spotify) and Three Percent (Apple, Spotify) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 25m
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