Adam Dalva

New York

Contributing Fiction Editor at The Yale Review

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.008 The OG Literary It Girls

Aug 12, 2024 | scremesreport.substack.com | Ellen Atlanta |Aria Aber |Adam Dalva

An economist, a painter, and a novelist walk into a bar… rather than the start of a bad joke, this could very well be a description of any given Saturday night in the West London neighborhood of Bloomsbury in 1912. Before Brat, there was Bloomsbury — a collection of twenty-odd artists, writers, and minor aristocrats who formed the core of a hedonistic and experimental sub-culture in the midst of Edwardian London.
The Watchlist: December 2023

Dec 20, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Tobias Carroll |Adam Dalva |Marlon Hacla |Patricia C Melo |Patrícia Campo Melo

From Ugly Duckling Presse | Glossolalia by Marlon Hacla, translated from the Filipino by Kristine Ong Muslim | Poetry | 200 pages | ISBN 9781946604019 | US$20.00 What the publisher says: “Feverish from the engrossing revelatory arcs of the uncanny, Glossolalia is a mind-bending foray into the twisted underlying logic of material reality and a rip-roaring romp through Philippine urban legends, psychogeography, and the uncomfortable, often seedy aspects of music, cinema, and art.” What Sakinah...
Mystery, Taboo, and Class Barriers: A Conversation with Marie NDiaye

Dec 14, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Adam Dalva |Merve Emre |Tobias Carroll |Alexander Aguayo

Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Marie NDiaye at Brooklyn’s Community Bookstore. It was a special night—NDiaye had run into a force majeure-style transit issue but no one left the event, and when she arrived, there was already a celebratory feeling in the room despite the horrid weather. The audience’s excitement was justified: NDiaye has published many novels, stories, and plays in a career spanning back to 1985.
Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

Oct 8, 2023 | lithub.com | Adam Dalva

I sensed that Benjamín Labatut would be a challenge to profile because his work is heady and elusive. His English-language debut, When We Cease to Understand the World, was part-essay, part-fiction, a fractal sequence that dove into the imagined minds of scientists and mathematicians like Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger.
The Style It Takes #1

Oct 3, 2023 | adamdalva.substack.com | Adam Dalva

A percentage of teaching—as with art-making, test-taking, politics, and love—is based in theft. To wit: before every workshop I lead, I do the same thing. The class gathers. There is the sort of loose hush that signifies that the energy in the room is about to shift. The student whose work we will be discussing looks ill, or defiant, or proud. And I ask the group to share what art they have experienced since the last time we gathered.
On Grief, Pizza, and the Power of Food to Evoke Memory

Jul 23, 2023 | lithub.com | Adam Dalva

1. My brother Robert and I grew up on Manhattan’s East Side. Some afternoons, we’d go to a deli—he’d get a stack of Genoa salami on an untoasted plain bagel—or to a diner for a hamburger. Usually, though, we’d stop in at the Ultimate Pizza, a below-ground hole in the wall on 57th and 1st. If you look at the Ultimate’s Yelp page, you’ll see a photo of my mother on the sidewalk holding our long-dead Maltese. My brother and I would always order a large half regular, half pepperoni.
End of the Line by Adam Dalva | Contrary Magazine

Apr 2, 2023 | contrarymagazine.com | Adam Dalva

Allison was going to get married in Ronkonkoma, so I was waiting for the train. Summer heat shimmered over the Jamaica Station tracks. There had been a run on air conditioners; newly-installed models tilted at perilous angles out of New York’s windows. My traveling outfit—a gray tee and homemade cut-offs that dangled sloppy fringe—was drenched with sweat that had already outmatched my deodorant. This was back when I didn’t know what I was doing with my life, when I brushed my teeth and spit blood.
Walk-On by Adam Dalva

Apr 2, 2023 | contrarymagazine.com | Adam Dalva

1A theater. The exterior buzzes with the usual strangers and that winter’s night sensation of vibrating air. What a shame to give up on it and enter. Inside, people won’t be stepping crunchy steps. Why not keep on walking instead, walk until you reach a forest, walk until you reach the type of strangers you’ve never seen? Why not walk until you’re no longer tempted to enact a love story? Of course, you don’t do it. Of course, you go inside.
A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse

Feb 28, 2023 | bookcritics.org | Adam Dalva |Halima Elmajdoubi

and I see that I am writing the NBCC citation for A New Name: Septology VI-VII (Transit Books), yes,and I find after I go back and read Septology I-V that though I was first drawn toward the novel’s form, especially the long sentence that runs through it, stuttering here and there with dialogue and conjunction and affirmation and conjecture, I now think that the narrative line runs even more extraordinarily, yes, because I think that Fosse and his translator Damion Searls have created...

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Articles

.008 The OG Literary It Girls

The Watchlist: December 2023

Mystery, Taboo, and Class Barriers: A Conversation with Marie NDiaye

Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

The Style It Takes #1

On Grief, Pizza, and the Power of Food to Evoke Memory

End of the Line by Adam Dalva | Contrary Magazine

Walk-On by Adam Dalva

A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse

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