Announcing the Relaunch of Dalkey Archive Press in Spring 2022

Deep Vellum acquired Dalkey Archive at the end of 2020 with the goal to keep the legendary press alive as a distinct imprint. In the year since the merger, Dalkey Archive has stayed true to its origins, continuing to publish brilliant, challenging, and formally inventive work, as demonstrated by such recent titles as A Story that Happens by Dan O’Brien, renowned poet, playwright, and essayist; and Warning to the Crocodiles by António Lobo Antunes, living legend of Portuguese letters and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize.

“Dalkey Archive has offered readers a commitment to international literature for almost forty years, with nearly 1000 books by authors from forty languages and sixty countries,” says Will Evans, Deep Vellum’s founder and the Executive Director of Dalkey Archive. “It is the greatest honor to bring this legendary publisher’s list under Deep Vellum’s operations, and to continue to add to Dalkey Archive’s legacy and mission by connecting readers with the world’s greatest writers and translators.”

“Dalkey Archive’s vision—both editorial and in terms of cultivating a readership for ‘challenging’ books—drew me into the publishing world, and it’s an honor to be collaborating with this worldrenowned press once again,” says Chad W. Post, Dalkey’s Editor-in-Chief. “Under the guidance of Deep Vellum and Will Evans, this new phase of Dalkey’s history promises to be the most exciting one yet. Dalkey’s back catalog is unsurpassed in terms of literary quality, and this relaunch will greatly benefit readers of all kinds, and the literary scene as a whole.”

Deep Vellum’s efforts to restructure and rebrand Dalkey Archive continue, culminating in the relaunch of Dalkey Archive with a full season list of spring/summer titles, the rejuvenation of select titles from the Dalkey Archive catalog, and a new website.

Dalkey Archive Essentials

Dalkey Archive announces the launch of the Dalkey Archive Essentials series, a collection of vital reissues from the Dalkey Archive backlist. Dalkey will reissue ten titles per season, beginning with Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed, At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien, The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute, Trilogy by Jon Fosse, Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson, Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins, Poor Things by Alasdair Gray, The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth, and Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young. As the series expands, the press will give other classic works the versions they deserve (including books by Gertrude Stein and Arno Schmidt in coming seasons), and introduce new generations of readers to the seminal titles Dalkey Archive has published in its remarkable history. More info/shop

Forthcoming Releases

The spring/summer 2022 season opens in April with the long-overdue reissue of Vincent O. Carter’s The Bern Book, a Black ex-pat’s memoir of “lacerating subjective sociology” set in 1950s Switzerland. In April, Vladimir Sorokin’s Their Four Hearts, translated by Max Lawton, kicks off a multiyear project to bring the great and controversial Russian writer’s most significant works into English. The season also includes several brilliant debut novels: The Longcut, by Emily Hall, a short, potent book of humorous self-castigation in which an artist repeatedly questions what her art is; The Deer, by Dashiel Carrera, a strange, abstract work of shifting forms; and You’ll Like It Here, by Ashton Politanoff, a collage of documents and fragments that creates a multi-register history of 20th century Redondo Beach. Other forthcoming books include Antagony by Luis Goytisolo; Secret Crypt by Salvador Elizando; Round Dance of Water by Anatoly Kuznetzov; Lions of the Grunewald by Aidan Higgins; An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking by Ben Slotky; and Marshland by Otohiko Kaga. More info/shop

The Dalkey Scholarly Series

The Dalkey Scholarly Series, which launched in 1992 with the publication of Viktor Shklovsky’s On the Theory of Prose—now in a new 2021 edition— continues with two new titles: Steve Spalding’s Minuit and Robert Von Hallberg’s Monogamy. For three decades, the Scholarly Series has published books by theorists, critics, and academics, and in 2022 the series will continue to bring forth important works of specialized scholarly research.

DalkeyArchive.com

Dalkey Archive’s brand-new website, dalkeyarchive.com, is now live. There readers can: learn about the press; browse and shop the full catalog by genre, country, and new releases; check out the available casebooks—title-specific, downloadable collections of critical material on contemporary fiction; access past issues of CONTEXT magazine; listen to associated podcasts on international literature such as Chad W. Post’s Two Month Review and Three Percent Podcast.