Dalkey Archive in the Guardian
Posted on: August 05, 2008
August, 2008 — This week, the Guardian, one of Great Britain's foremost newspapers, posted a discussion of non-profit publishing that features Dalkey Archive Press and focuses on three of the Press's recent titles:
Big returns from not-for-profit
By abandoning any ambition to make money, publishers can bring rich rewards to readers
Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal is the kind of novel that gives sales and marketing people night sweats. Translated from the French, it's a fragmentary novel: a patchwork of minute descriptions of hotel rooms, mixed with a chronologically confused half-narrative. Based around a premise of Georges Perec's — that of a book of reminiscences of every bedroom he'd ever slept in — it is a high literary confection that also happens to be a delight to read . . . [read more]
Big returns from not-for-profit
By abandoning any ambition to make money, publishers can bring rich rewards to readers
Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal is the kind of novel that gives sales and marketing people night sweats. Translated from the French, it's a fragmentary novel: a patchwork of minute descriptions of hotel rooms, mixed with a chronologically confused half-narrative. Based around a premise of Georges Perec's — that of a book of reminiscences of every bedroom he'd ever slept in — it is a high literary confection that also happens to be a delight to read . . . [read more]