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I started the Review out of a sense of isolation, as well as a kind of outrage at the fact that books and authors were reduced only to marketplace value. And I should say that, from the start, I wanted the magazine to break down the artificial barriers that exist among countries and cultures. It was
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my view then and now that one can't properly come to terms with contemporary writing without seeing it in an international context, and it's also my view that Americans generally don't want to know anything about the world outside the United States unless they are planning a vacation.
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and Dalkey Archive have widened their focus to include works in translation, especially from countries without a strong presence in global literature. Examples of significant international issues of the
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originally focused upon American and British writers who had been overlooked by the critical establishment, and in this manner the Review succeeded in bringing new critical attention to writers such as
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has featured essays and reviews from some of the most well-known writers of today, including
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John O'Brien
United States
http://www.dalkeyarchive.com
Dalkey Archive Press
John O'Brien
William Gaddis
Gilbert Sorrentino
Paul Metcalf
Nicholas Mosley
Donald Barthelme
Dalkey Archive Press
Jonathan Franzen
David Foster Wallace
Jonathan Safran Foer
Kathy Acker
Barbara Guest
Jonathan Lethem
Kathy Acker
Diane Ackerman
John Ashbery
John Barth
S. D. Chrostowska
Robert Coover
Robert Creeley
Guy Davenport
Helen DeWitt
Rikki Ducornet
Stanley Elkin
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Franzen

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