This is such a heavy lift. Nan, just want to extend my gratitude and enthusiasm for you, Will, and everyone involved with uplifting and rediscovering everything for both republication and preservation purposes. I will be following from afar!
I was the production manager back when DAP moved to UHV & when I started (October 2014?) it was just me & Jake Snyder in John's basement—talk about a skeleton crew. Mikhail was doing layout from Brooklyn (before he got fired for being too expensive & I was left to do it all with no background in design, basically "go teach yourself InDesign so you can lay out all the books") and Jeremy Davies was all by himself in what was left of the Champaign office, which I had to almost singlehandedly pack up & move to either storage, Victoria, or John's house. Those shelves weren't up in the back warehouse in Funk's Grove when I was there—I moved a bunch of the inventory there from Champaign, got the UHaul stuck in the mud—we had the shelving pieces but there was no one to put it up; looks a lot better now. I also assembled a bunch of that furniture down in the basement as John wanted to possibly open it up as the main office if UHV didn't come through (which it looks like it ultimately didn't, but that was predictable from the start). I left (or was fired, depending on the story you choose to believe) in summer 2016, just before the election, an Illinois boy stuck in Texas. Good times I suppose.
Fascinating and exciting, Chad. So glad all the endless work to create Dalkey Archive will be preserved. Looking forward to following along. Hope you’re good. Ted
This is such a heavy lift. Nan, just want to extend my gratitude and enthusiasm for you, Will, and everyone involved with uplifting and rediscovering everything for both republication and preservation purposes. I will be following from afar!
I was the production manager back when DAP moved to UHV & when I started (October 2014?) it was just me & Jake Snyder in John's basement—talk about a skeleton crew. Mikhail was doing layout from Brooklyn (before he got fired for being too expensive & I was left to do it all with no background in design, basically "go teach yourself InDesign so you can lay out all the books") and Jeremy Davies was all by himself in what was left of the Champaign office, which I had to almost singlehandedly pack up & move to either storage, Victoria, or John's house. Those shelves weren't up in the back warehouse in Funk's Grove when I was there—I moved a bunch of the inventory there from Champaign, got the UHaul stuck in the mud—we had the shelving pieces but there was no one to put it up; looks a lot better now. I also assembled a bunch of that furniture down in the basement as John wanted to possibly open it up as the main office if UHV didn't come through (which it looks like it ultimately didn't, but that was predictable from the start). I left (or was fired, depending on the story you choose to believe) in summer 2016, just before the election, an Illinois boy stuck in Texas. Good times I suppose.
Very much looking forward to this unfolding over time, Chad! Be well, Brandon
Fascinating and exciting, Chad. So glad all the endless work to create Dalkey Archive will be preserved. Looking forward to following along. Hope you’re good. Ted