THE DRIVE by Yair Assulin is a powerfully subversive novel in a long tradition of anti-militarist literature, with existentialist echoes of Céline's Journey to the End of the Night, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Hašek's Good Soldier Švejk. Watch the video where novelist Ruby Namdar lays it out in an engrossing discussion with Assulin and his Booker Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen.
Author Yair Assulin talks about his new novel THE DRIVE.
Israeli author Yair Assulin explains the acute relevance of his new novel THE DRIVE in these times of radical uncertainty.
http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-drive/
Video message on surviving these days of isolation with New Vessel Press.
A message of hope from Troyes in France, where Jean-Philippe Blondel, author of the critically acclaimed novels EXPOSED and THE 6:41 TO PARIS, talks about the pleasures of reading and looks ahead to the future. http://newvesselpress.com/books/exposed/
Margriet de Moor reads from SLEEPLESS NIGHT
To celebrate Dutch literature in English, renowned author Margriet de Moor talks about her enigmatic novel SLEEPLESS NIGHT, a story of romance and death punctuated by a midnight cake baking ritual. #Boekenweek http://newvesselpress.com/books/sleepless-night/
"A beautiful, mysterious and shocking book." Celebrated Dutch author Margriet de Moor talks about SLEEPLESS NIGHT and why she wrote what Books and Bao calls "this affecting story [that] leaves us with, upon its closure, the nervous unease that life doesn’t care about us."
Where does art come from?
The celebrated author of WHAT'S LEFT OF THE NIGHT, Ersi Sotiropoulos, explains how her novel about the poet C.P. Cavafy deals with forbidden desires and asks: "Where does art come from?" http://newvesselpress.com/books/whats-left-night/
The Madeleine Project - Turning the Pages
Have you read The Madeleine Project yet? This time of year, a lot of people clean out their closets, attics, and storage room. This book will give you pause before throwing away an old photo album, your grandmother's diary, or a wedding present that has gone unopened for fifty years. The Madeleine Project is the incredible story of a French woman who lives through the entire European 20th century, and whose story is only remembered thanks to her stuff (and somebody finding it!).
http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-madeleine-project/
SALVATORE SETTIS ON BBC WORLD NEWS
Salvatore Settis, head of the Musée du Louvre's scientific advisory council, tells BBC News that his book IF VENICE DIES sounds the alarm not just about the Queen of the Adriatic but about the perilous fate of historic cities around the globe. http://newvesselpress.com/books/if-venice-dies/
Some video of the evening...
Alexis Ragougneau discusses the paradoxes of Notre Dame Cathed...
Watch Alexis Ragougneau, author of THE MADONNA OF NOTRE DAME, discuss the paradoxes of Notre Dame Cathedral, which in Ragougneau's telling is simultaneously a Catholic fortress and a Tower of Babel.
6:41 to Paris and a post office in Troyes
What in the world does THE 6:41 TO PARIS have to do with a Polish postal worker in Troyes, France? Author Jean-Philippe Blondel explains ...
Yitzhak Gormezano Goren reads from his Alexandrian Trilogy.
Train to Paris
What is THE 6:41 TO PARIS about? We asked author Jean-Philippe Blondel to give us an idea. Pub date is less than two months away!
Check out the book trailer for SOME DAY by Shemi Zarhin, a novel that's been called "splendidly realized," "steamy," "rich and distinctive," and lots more. "With Some Day," writes The Arts Fuse, "Zarhin has added his name to the luminaries of Israeli literature.”
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