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Chad W. Post

@chadwpost.bsky.social
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“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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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Fascinating substack post from @chadwpost.bsky.social threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/a-voyage-t...
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A Voyage to India
A post that's supposedly about Gonçalo Tavares and nonprofit publishing, but might really just be a justification for the existence of this Substack.
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vincentfrancone.bsky.social @vincentfrancone.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
HAd a great time chatting with @chadwpost.bsky.social and Ross Ufberg about Anthony Cronin's Dead as Doornails. Dig it. dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/dead-as-do...
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"Dead As Doornails" by Anthony Cronin
The book with the most pints per page?
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Inspired by three conversations with publishers about distribution woes and this piece by @chadwpost.bsky.social publishingperspectives.com/2026/07/how-...
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How to Spend $50 Million on the Nonprofit Literary Arts - Publishing Perspectives
Open Letter Books founder and publisher Chad W. Post sees the recently launched Literary Arts Foundation in the U.S. as not only a funding opportunity, but a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rethink how w...
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vincentfrancone.bsky.social @vincentfrancone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@chadwpost.bsky.social and I chatting about Brian Dillon's great new book Ambivalence: A Education. Great chat with plenty on the so-called death of reading. threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/brian-dill...
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Brian Dillon's "Ambivalence: An Education"
From the promise of university life to Rose Horowitch's "The End of Reading Is Here."
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New episode of TMR on THE TUNNEL by William H. Gass is now out! We talk about the “Susu, I Approach You in My Dreams,” arguably the most MAGA section yet. (It’s pretty scary.) threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/tmr-2910-c...
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TMR 29.10: "Curve Him and Unnerve Him" [The Tunnel]
Is this the most moral book ever?
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Trump giving out $1,776 checks has the same energy as your weed shop advertising a $4.20 discount on prerolls.
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Kicking off a deep dive into @openletterbooks.bsky.social’s backlist with this post about publishing strategies, looking at backlist trends, and Ingrid Winterbach’s TO HELL WITH CRONJÉ. threepercentproblem.substack.com/p/the-promis...
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The Promise of the Backlist
A new project that kicks off with Ingrid Winterbach's "To Hell with Cronjé."
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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Episode 47: Elon Musk Walter Isaacson’s definitive biography poses the question: is it ok to be a pathetic, cruel, lying reactionary if it kind of helps you build cars?
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Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 12/09/2025 · 1h 28m
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vincentfrancone.bsky.social @vincentfrancone.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Great chat with @chadwpost.bsky.social about this book and its author. And what to do with artists that do terrible things. And the time I conned my way into meeting Jeanette Winterson. dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/the-ikon-m...
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"The Ikon Maker" by Desmond Hogan
A deeply sad book about parenting and sexuality.
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Ha! Love it!!
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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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.
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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Talked with @chadwpost.bsky.social about Andrew Elias Colarusso's novel THE SOVEREIGN! dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/the-sovere...
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"The Sovereign" by Andrew Elias Colarusso
A debut novel from the Puerto Rican Literature Series
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Literally who I was thinking of!
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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It's a thrill and an honour to be on this list!
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The kicker to this whole thing was when I was in Barcelona for the first time and found Flann O’Brien’s pub. I went to eat there (obviously) and THIS EPISODE OF LOST was on TV. I showed the bartender the book (I had it with me) and they comped me everything and gave me a Flann O’Brien’s polo.
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Hahah. That whole experience (which I’ll write about soon) was totally wild. It’s in episode 3, which, at the time, aired in the UK months after it did in the US. This spawned a bizarre feedback loop of UK press reference US press then US press referencing the new UK press . . .
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Will Evans @willevans.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Chad Post on 40 years of Dalkey Archive, pt. 1 of 5! dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/forty-year... @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @chadwpost.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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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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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Forty Years of Dalkey Archive (Part II of V)
Covering 1984–1993
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K.E. Semmel @kesemmel.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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-...
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Not lost in translation
Open Letter Books just might find your new favorite (international) read.
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I feel ya. That section was weird, but then the Herb Doctor appeared! And I think this week’s section—with some footnote guidance?—is truly incredible and brought it all home for me.
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I had a similar experience! And as a lifelong footnote hater . . . I have to admit that I’d be floundering without these. I’m curious which other editions have fantastic footnotes.
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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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TMR 24.3: “You Are a Punster” [Confidence-Man] « Three Percent
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It’s great!
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Takami Nieda @tnieda.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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...
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2025 Mentorship Program | The American Literary Translators Association
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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/...
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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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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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...
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Fiction: Jean Giono’s ‘Fragments of a Paradise’
Plus reviews of “Melville” and “Comrade Papa.”
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This book looks so right up my alley.
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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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...
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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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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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...
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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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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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...
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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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Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
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...
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