Chad W. Post
@chadwpost.bsky.social
“Most Insufferable Man in Publishing.” Loves baseball, hates most pitchers. Sucks at email. Is usually editing or writing for Substack or podcasting.
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I'm rereading Grattan and Me by Tom O'Neill (pub. by @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social) so I can discuss it on a podcast with @chadwpost.bsky.social
Why is it not acclaimed? It is so much more imaginative, funnier and brilliantly incisive than many of the books in The Irish Times' best 100 of the century.
Why is it not acclaimed? It is so much more imaginative, funnier and brilliantly incisive than many of the books in The Irish Times' best 100 of the century.
June 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I'm rereading Grattan and Me by Tom O'Neill (pub. by @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social) so I can discuss it on a podcast with @chadwpost.bsky.social
Why is it not acclaimed? It is so much more imaginative, funnier and brilliantly incisive than many of the books in The Irish Times' best 100 of the century.
Why is it not acclaimed? It is so much more imaginative, funnier and brilliantly incisive than many of the books in The Irish Times' best 100 of the century.
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Talked with @chadwpost.bsky.social about Andrew Elias Colarusso's novel THE SOVEREIGN! dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/the-sovere...
"The Sovereign" by Andrew Elias Colarusso
A debut novel from the Puerto Rican Literature Series
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May 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Talked with @chadwpost.bsky.social about Andrew Elias Colarusso's novel THE SOVEREIGN! dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/the-sovere...
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It's a thrill and an honour to be on this list!
We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/19/2...
December 19, 2024 at 3:31 PM
It's a thrill and an honour to be on this list!
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Chad Post on 40 years of Dalkey Archive, pt. 1 of 5! dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/forty-year... @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
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Forty Years of Dalkey Archive (Part I of V)
Like ESPN's "30 for 30," but not.
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December 12, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Chad Post on 40 years of Dalkey Archive, pt. 1 of 5! dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/forty-year... @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
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Letter from Jack Green to Steven Moore / @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social re. 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 ! (www.complete-review.com/reviews/gadd...) ! (From @chadwpost.bsky.social's latest (and again fascinating) "Forty Years of Dalkey Archive"-post: dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/forty-year...)
December 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Letter from Jack Green to Steven Moore / @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social re. 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 ! (www.complete-review.com/reviews/gadd...) ! (From @chadwpost.bsky.social's latest (and again fascinating) "Forty Years of Dalkey Archive"-post: dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/forty-year...)
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Chad W. Post (@chadwpost.bsky.social) continues his amazing history of Dalkey Archive (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social) with stories about being the first US publisher of Annie Ernaux and a run-in with the author of FIRE THE BASTARDS! shorturl.at/zwpsJ
Forty Years of Dalkey Archive (Part II of V)
Covering 1984–1993
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December 18, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Chad W. Post (@chadwpost.bsky.social) continues his amazing history of Dalkey Archive (@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social) with stories about being the first US publisher of Annie Ernaux and a run-in with the author of FIRE THE BASTARDS! shorturl.at/zwpsJ
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An excellent profile here of @openletterbooks.bsky.social and @chadwpost.bsky.social.
“Without Open Letter you wouldn’t have the contemporary translation scene; it’s been landscape-defining.”
www.roccitymag.com/culture/not-...
“Without Open Letter you wouldn’t have the contemporary translation scene; it’s been landscape-defining.”
www.roccitymag.com/culture/not-...
Not lost in translation
Open Letter Books just might find your new favorite (international) read.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:22 PM
An excellent profile here of @openletterbooks.bsky.social and @chadwpost.bsky.social.
“Without Open Letter you wouldn’t have the contemporary translation scene; it’s been landscape-defining.”
www.roccitymag.com/culture/not-...
“Without Open Letter you wouldn’t have the contemporary translation scene; it’s been landscape-defining.”
www.roccitymag.com/culture/not-...
Episode 3 on CONFIDENCE-MAN (“You Are a Punster”) is now up on YouTube. It’ll be available from all the various podcast hosting places tomorrow. If you’re at all lost in this book—tune in! This ep really frames things that would otherwise go unnoticed. www.rochester.edu/College/tran...
TMR 24.3: “You Are a Punster” [Confidence-Man] « Three Percent
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November 20, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Episode 3 on CONFIDENCE-MAN (“You Are a Punster”) is now up on YouTube. It’ll be available from all the various podcast hosting places tomorrow. If you’re at all lost in this book—tune in! This ep really frames things that would otherwise go unnoticed. www.rochester.edu/College/tran...
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Emerging Translators: Apply for the 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Program. Mentorships offered in 18 languages. I will be serving as the Japanese mentor. Deadline November 30. Apply here 👇
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2025 Mentorship Program | The American Literary Translators Association
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November 16, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Emerging Translators: Apply for the 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Program. Mentorships offered in 18 languages. I will be serving as the Japanese mentor. Deadline November 30. Apply here 👇
www.literarytranslators.org/2025-mentors...
www.literarytranslators.org/2025-mentors...
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There's a sitewide SALE this weekend at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, which includes all the Dorothy books! Buy 2 books and save 20%, 3 and save 30%, or 4 or more and save 40% . . .
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Dorothy, a publishing project
Dorothy, a publishing project is a St. Louis–based feminist publisher of innovative fiction, near-fiction, and literary criticism. They publish two books per year, together in the fall, in beautiful p...
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November 15, 2024 at 3:32 PM
There's a sitewide SALE this weekend at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, which includes all the Dorothy books! Buy 2 books and save 20%, 3 and save 30%, or 4 or more and save 40% . . .
www.nyrb.com/collections/...
www.nyrb.com/collections/...
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Dreamed worlds on sea and land in Jean Giono's 'Fragments of a Paradise,' Rodrigo Fresán's 'Melvill' and GauZ's 'Comrade Papa,' for my weekend WSJ Fiction Chronicle (gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: Jean Giono’s ‘Fragments of a Paradise’
Plus reviews of “Melville” and “Comrade Papa.”
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November 15, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Dreamed worlds on sea and land in Jean Giono's 'Fragments of a Paradise,' Rodrigo Fresán's 'Melvill' and GauZ's 'Comrade Papa,' for my weekend WSJ Fiction Chronicle (gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
And finally, I posted a piece on Dalkey Essentials and Eimar O’Duffy (mostly forgotten Irish satirist) and parody. Took me MONTHS to finally get this down. So much struggle and procrastination . . .
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Political Satire When We're Through the Looking-Glass
Do Eimar O'Duffy's satires matter today? Are they "Essentials"?
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November 15, 2024 at 3:35 PM
And finally, I posted a piece on Dalkey Essentials and Eimar O’Duffy (mostly forgotten Irish satirist) and parody. Took me MONTHS to finally get this down. So much struggle and procrastination . . .
open.substack.com/pub/dalkeyar...
open.substack.com/pub/dalkeyar...
And then we released the second episode of this season of the Two Month Review about Melville’s THE CONFIDENCE-MAN.
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TMR 24.2: "Trust Me, Nature Is Health" [Confidence-Man]
Minerals?!? Get that outta here. Vegetable all the way . . .
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November 15, 2024 at 3:34 PM
And then we released the second episode of this season of the Two Month Review about Melville’s THE CONFIDENCE-MAN.
open.substack.com/pub/threeper...
open.substack.com/pub/threeper...
Focusing on the positives and not the insanity, it’s been a pretty solid week . . . First off, we published Pilar Adón & Katie Whittemore’s OF BEASTS AND FOWLS.
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OUT TODAY! "Of Beasts and Fowls" by Pilar Adón & Katie Whittemore
Winner of Spain's Premio Nacional de Narrativa in 2023
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November 15, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Focusing on the positives and not the insanity, it’s been a pretty solid week . . . First off, we published Pilar Adón & Katie Whittemore’s OF BEASTS AND FOWLS.
open.substack.com/pub/threeper...
open.substack.com/pub/threeper...
Tune in at 10 ET for this week’s Two Month Review! We’ve got Aggro Lamont, title changed, weird aphorisms, the funniest cowboy shit, and THE RED SWAN. www.youtube.com/watch?v=__wM...
October 12, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Tune in at 10 ET for this week’s Two Month Review! We’ve got Aggro Lamont, title changed, weird aphorisms, the funniest cowboy shit, and THE RED SWAN. www.youtube.com/watch?v=__wM...