Vince (A Book No One Wants (https://www.vincentfrancone.com/new-products-1)) and Chad talk about Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s novella, The Dregs of the Day (https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300242775), translated from the Irish by Alan Titley. Dregs is available from from Yale University Press, who also published The Dirty Dust (https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300219821) & Graveyard Clay (https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300227062)—two very different translations of the same book, and the primary topic for a good chunk of this episode. In terms of The Dregs of the Day (https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300242775), it’s about a widower who doesn’t want to deal with the practicalities of his wife’s passing and instead drinks and bumbles his way through an Irish weekend . . .
This episode’s music is “When I Was Done Dying” by Dan Deacon.
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4 May 2026
"Cadenza" by Ralph Cusack
Vince (A Book No One Wants (https://www.vincentfrancone.com/new-products-1)) and Chad talk about Ralph Cusack’s only novel, Cadenza (https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780916583057), a semi-surreal trip on a train through time and space. They discuss the humor, the difficulty holding on to the prose, Anthony Cronin’s criticisms from Dead As Doornails (https://bookshop.org/a/164/9781628976434), and then digress off into myriad topics . . .
Next month Vince and Chad will be discussing The Dregs of the Day (https://bookshop.org/a/164/9780300242775) by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, transalted from the Irish by Alan Titley.
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20 Apr 2026
"Things in the Night" by Mati Unt with Ted McDermott
Ted McDermott (https://www.tedmcdermott.com/) (The Minor Outsider) comes on to talk about his time at Dalkey Archive as Chad’s marketing assistant back in 2005. They talk about the ethos of the “real Dalkey,” what was going on when the press started looking abroad for great literary fiction, what’s changed at the press over the past twenty years, the critical importance of reading and knowing how to talk about the books you publish and, yes, eventually, Mati Unt’s masterpiece, Things in the Night.
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Vincent Francone
Chad W Post
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