Deep Vellum seeks interns for part-time educational internships for Summer 2026, running from June through August. All internships are remote unless otherwise specified. Interns will work on a variety of titles from the catalogs of Deep Vellum and our imprints, including Dalkey Archive.
This call is open through May 15, 2026.
See press release for full details and application instructions: epvellum.org/news/call-for-departmental-interns-summer26
Roger Boylan is a booze-soaked humorist in the tradition of James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, and Samuel Beckett.
His first novel is about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle: Milo Rogers, a headwaiter and would-be poet with a bit of a drinking problem and a bit of a sexual one; Kathy Hickman, a writer for the woman’s fashion magazine Glam andformer pin-up girl; Wolfetone Grey, who reads books only by or about God, and who also makes anonymous phone calls throughout the town in order to make people believe, among other things, that they have just won the lottery; and a host of other peculiar folks, all tortured by problems with God, sex, Ireland, and the drink. Accompanying all of this are hundreds of acerbic, hilarious footnotes from a nameless figure who rudely comments upon the characters and events.
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Background Photo Credit: A Sunset in Ireland, Francis Seymour Hayden, 1863 (public domain, thanks to the National Gallery of Art)
THE TUNNEL READER NEWSLETTER is not done yet! Because we know you’ve all definitely finished your copies by now, we’re sending along some further reading recommendations. These are based on Gass’s own broad taste & deep influence, and they’ve been compiled by Deep Vellum’s own Morgan English!
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And don’t worry… this is not the end of our damnable dig. Next month, begin taking deep dives into the rest of our Dalkey Archive Essentials, starting with Carole Maso’s AVA (out July 21st, 2026)!
Out October 13th, 2026 — HACKENFELLER’S APE is Brigid Brophy’s provocative debut novel of animal rights and Cold War anxieties, now widely available in the US for the first time in decades!
At the London Zoo, Professor Clement Darrelhyde has been studying Percy and Edwina, a pair of Hackenfeller’s Apes, for some time: serenading them with Mozart, learning their habits, hoping to witness the mating of this endangered species. Percy observes him back through the bars of his enclosure, wary of a species that is both captor and companion. When the Professor learns that the zoo has sold Percy to a government space program and that the ape is due to be launched on a one-way rocket trip in a matter of days, he teams up with a plucky young lockpick named Gloria in the hopes of securing Percy’s freedom.
In a prescient, provocative novella written almost a decade before the first animal was sent into outer space, Brigid Brophy meditates on the human tendency towards violence and self-alienation. At once fable and comedy, gallivanting heist adventure and elegant philosophical treatise, Hackenfeller’s Ape reveals the human animal inside of us all.
Cover design by Lexi Earle, find her at @lexears !!
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Happy pubday to DEAD AS DOORNAILS —
Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin’s account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colorful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh l, and Flann O’Brien.
Dead as Doornails is a clear-eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today. Cronin writes with remarkable subtlety of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink, the shortage of sex, the insecurity and begrudgery, the painful limitations of cultural life, and the bittersweet pull of exile. We read of a comical sojourn in France with Behan, and of Cronin’s years in London as a literary editor and a friend of the writer Julian Maclaren-Ross and the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun. The generation chronicled by Cronin was one of wasted promise. That waste is redressed through the shimmering prose of Dead as Doornails, earning its place in Irish literary history alongside the best works of Behan, Kavanagh, and O’Brien.
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Really cool new Hobbyist! Dalkey Archive (@dalkeyarchive ) did a tremendous job with the brilliant new reissue of William Gass’ ‘The Tunnel,’ particularly with the creation of ‘The Tunnel’ Reader. I spoke with Sarah McEachern from Dalkey/Deep Vellum (@deepvellum ) about recruiting writers like John Darnielle (@mountaingoatsmusic ) and Katherine Packert Burke (@vegetasackvillewest ) for the Reader, marketing “old” books to new readers, and the beauty of Midwest literature. Give it a read!
THE TRICK IS TO KEEP BREATHING —
This modern classic from one of Scotland’s most important authors tells the stark and honest story of a woman struggling to cope with the loss of her lover — first published in 1989 and often compared to The Bell Jar.
#sylviaplath #belljar #litfic #scottishliterature #bookstagram
@fullstopmag has published an amazing review of my work written by @morningleaps I have seldom felt more understood! To read the whole review /2026/03/23/reviews/morgan-english/coming-apart-edy-poppy/?fbclid=IwdGRjcARplFpjbGNrBGl5eWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMG9lTHVnN2h5YlBGRmM1SWZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEewhywJ7i_d5L20J1y_7WqRZn5Vk5j7KRAaw3G8ZPU-N8qowX9L0pLXo9tQQI_aem_ZHzSrIOej_czH4boELiIEQ @dalkeyarchive@deepvellum@deepvellumbooks@gyldendalagency@norwegianliterature
Happy pub day to THE GINGER MAN LETTERS — edited by Bill Dunn.
This scrupulously edited and annotated collection throws extraordinary light on the genesis, composition and publication of The Ginger Man, a masterpiece that censors and critics could not stop, going on to sell 50 million copies worldwide.
The riveting backstory of the classic novel set in post-war bohemian Dublin is finally told in 220 intimate and revealing letters between author J.P. Donleavy and his Trinity College friends, Gainor Steven Crist and Arthur Kenneth Donoghue, inspirations for the main characters Sebastian Dangerfield and Kenneth O’Keefe.
Spanning the late 1940s to the early 1980s, the letters create a compelling narrative, told in three distinct voices, that reads like Donleavy fiction – hilarious, reflective and brawling by turn, always revealing of these colourful individuals, the special time and place they shared and what came after as they ventured into the wider world. This unique collection is richly illustrated with period photos and facsimiles of letters and pages from the first draft of what became The Ginger Man.
The Ginger Man Letters is essential reading for fans of the author and his masterpiece, as well as literary scholars and those interested in bohemian Dublin days and is sure to attract a new generation of readers.
CHERNOBYL PRAYER: A CHRONICLE OF THE FUTURE — a new translation of the best-selling book ever published by Dalkey Archive Press!
From Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature: a devastating human history of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, now in an emotive new translation.
First there is the voice of the firefighter’s wife, who was kept from going to her husband because he was a dangerous radioactive object. Then the voice of an old woman unable to see why she has to leave her farm and her village. And, of course, the “clean-up crew,” the soldiers and scientists for whom everything changed on that fateful day in 1986.
From the tender and intimate stories of people caring for their loved ones as they deteriorate from radiation sickness to the moving stories of the people in the surrounding cities told suddenly to abandon their homes, this definitive translation of Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich’s masterpiece closely examines the human realities of the Chernobyl disaster and the half-century we have lived in its shadow.
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The Deep Vellum NYC Team has LANDED at the CLMP Indie Lit Fair in Washington Square Park! Swing by for steep discounts and great books from across our imprints (including Dalkey Archive Press)!
