Austerity Measures, edited by Karen Van Dyck, peeks out from the stacks @brooklinebooksmith. Poetry month may be long gone but it’s never a bad time to brush up on your contemporary Greek poets. 📷: @brooklinebooksmith #greekpoetry #translation #nyrbpoets
"Our times have grown almost exhaustingly big and eventful lately; not coincidentally, much of our fiction has either submerged itself in matters of our individual times and places (Rachel Cusk or Knausgaard) or fled from it into world-building fantasy adventures. Hayes, however, provides a welcome alternative — small, reflective novels about the struggles of not entirely fictional human beings. And at a time when our private lives seem to be growing smaller in the face of titanic historical forces, it is probably a good time to be remembering Alfred Hayes."
'The End of Me,' the last and best of Alfred Hayes' reissued midcentury novels, features a man reborn and proves there's life after screenwriting.
"Reading 'Tarka the Otter' is a beautiful, heady experience — like spending two years wandering a riverbank in rural England."
Laurie Hertzel gets it exactly right.
"Beauty is everywhere — in the glinting surface of the river, the twittering birds, the silent herons. But danger is also everywhere: Everything eats everything else."
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“My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.” —Renata Adler, Speedboat // Call us crazy, but this summer seems like an excellent time to read these two novels, if you haven’t already (and even if you have). #summerrreads #deepbacklist #renataadler
Miranda Seymour reviews Machines in the Head, a collection of Anna Kavan's short stories selected by Victoria Walker.
"There is no enemy, she admits, but only 'a sort of projection of myself, an identification of myself with the cruelty and destructiveness of the world.' It took courage to accept that truth and to locate it at the heart of a body of work that has yet to earn Kavan the recognition she deserves as one of the most powerful and original women writers of the twentieth century."
“I can’t keep on all my life writing in the same way,” the extraordinary novelist who called herself Anna Kavan wrote in 1966 to Peter Owen, the publisher whose commitment to her work in her later years helped rescue her from oblivion. Yet from the imprisoning walls and sadomasochistic rituals...
Blutch’s Mitchum comics came from @editions.cornelius in the mid-90s. They’re now collected in one book and translated into English by @mmaddencomics. @nyrcomics also did Blutch’s Peplum, if you like his line.
In case you missed last night's talk, it's archived and very entertaining.
Register now for Community Bookstore's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Thursday May 21, 2020 at 5:30 pm MDT.
"When Malaparte asks him how he has offended him, Mussolini replies, 'Two days ago, at Caffé Aragno, you told several of your friends I always wear ugly ties.' Malaparte apologizes and is dismissed. Halfway to the door he turns back and says, 'You’re wearing an ugly tie today as well,' which only makes Mussolini laugh at the young man’s cheekiness.
We’re still laughing today at his outrageous remarks and discussing his singular character. What is indisputable is the beauty of his prose and the fascination of his personality."
On May 21st at 7:30 pm. EST Community Bookstore is hosting a virtual conversation about Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris between writer Gary Indiana and NYRB Classics editor E…
Tragedy, plague, governance, writing, and translation.
Padma Viswanathan on the Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, whose novel São Bernardo she has translated from the Portuguese, in The Paris Review.
Decades after losing relatives to an outbreak of bubonic plague, the Faulkner of Brazil set about translating Camus’s pandemic classic.
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"Literature can create an experience that, illusory or not, appears as a means of discovery and an effort not to express what one knows but to experience what one does not know."
—Maurice Blanchot, The Work of Fire (1949), translated by Charlotte Mandel.
Nat Leach on Blanchot, Levinas, and "troubling experience of the unknown" in Henri Bosco's Malicroix.
As always, I’m delighted to post writing by my friend Nat Leach. Here Nat contextualizes Henri Bosco’s Malicroix (1948) twice over: by thinking about its uneasy relation to Gothic liter…
The Better Than Food review of J. A. Baker's The Peregrine is out of this world. Calls it a "oh-I-didn't know-you-could-that book." Or a "life-before-and-life-after book." Watch, enjoy, then read.
BUY HERE: https://amzn.to/2yirWdR Support the Show: https://www.patreon.com/booksarebetterthanfood Werner Herzog talk at Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/wa...
Publishers Weekly speaks to Ellen Blance and Ann Cook about the origins of the Monster series, the learn-to-read books (illustrated by Quentin Blake) that kids enjoy. How did they know they had succeeded?
"A teacher has phoned us and said that some kid had carved ‘spàgan’ on a desk. That’s Monster in Gaelic."
Long out of print in their original format, the Monster stories are back in a new hardcover compilation entitled 'Meet Monster: The First Big Monster Book,' illustrated by Quentin Blake.
A preview of the NYRB Classics coming in January 2021: Richard Wollheim's Germs and Maxime Rodinson's Muhammad, which Edward Said called "essential."
Translator Katherine Silver and novelist Mauro Javier Cárdenas will discuss two of the great Latin American authors—Julio Ramón Ribeyro and Juan Carlos Onetti—tonight! (Thursday, May 14th at 6pm PDT/9pm EDT). Register below to attend the online event, and consider supporting City Lights Booksellers & Publishers while its doors are closed by buying a book (we recommend Silver's translations of Ribeyro's short stories).
Carlos Onetti meets Julio Ramón Ribeyro in an evening of discussion between a master translator and an award winning novelist.
"This new translation of São Bernardo from the Brazilian Portuguese by Canadian writer Padma Viswanathan is as much a reiteration as it is a refashioning. The brusque, economical flavor of Paulo Honório’s narration remains intact.... Viswanathan has made a precious contribution to the body of English-language literature, adding to it the vibrant voice of one the most important figures of 20th-century Brazilian letters."
—Deserved praise for Padma Viswathan's new translation of Graciliano Ramos's great novel.
Arthur Ivan Bravo visits “São Bernardo,” the recently re-translated novel by Graciliano Ramos.
Congratulations to Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, whose English-language translation of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad has been named a finalist for the 2020 Best Translated Book Award! 📷: @subtextbooks #translation #russianliterature #besttranslatedbookaward
Congratulations to Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, whose first-ever English-language translation of Vasily Grossman's monumental Stalingrad has been named a finalist for the 2020 Best Translated Book Award. https://bit.ly/3bsISM5
At n+1, novelist, essayist, and musician Amit Chaudhuri writes about about growing up willfully self-isolated in Bombay, and “The Trouble With Being Lonely,” a song he wrote when he 19.
As a paean to the boom, our building, Maker Towers B, had been named after its builder, who was called, tautologically, Maker. In spite of hating the new apartment, just as, in a different way, I’d hated school, I began to spend a lot of time in it. The ostensible reason was to practice. But it wa...
Graciliano Ramos is one of the great Brazilian writers, often compared to William Faulkner because of his characters’ regional diction and his experiments in narrativity. São Bernardo is Paulo Honório’s tale, from his time as a field hand to his purchase of the São Bernardo estate. It’s a novel of language, the countryside, class and educational divisions, and jokes, all brought to life in a fresh translation by Padma Viswanathan.
Coming in December are Guido Morselli's Dissipation H. G. (abbr. is for humani generis) translated by Frederika Randall and André Gide's Marshlands in a new translation by Damion Searls.
Coming in November: Jozef Czapski's Memories of Starobielsk translated by Alissa Valles and Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet with an introduction by Olga Tokarczuk.
"Glück’s Margery Kempe depicts the transhistorical affinity of lovers at the end of time, conveying the eschatological fervor underwriting a Medieval scenery to the ambient fright of the AIDS epidemic and its constant aftermath. In collating these lover’s tales, Glück himself offers a compelling instance of memoir-as-self-replacement. For just as Kempe’s desire outlives her historical existence in writing, Glück backdates his own desirous being by some five-hundred years, offering her life as an interpretive gloss on his own."
“In the 1430s, Margery Kempe wrote the first autobiography in English. She replaced existence with the desire to exist,” writes Robert Glück...
Lucky us—the staff of Malvern Books has selected their favorite NYRB Classics at @Bookshop_Org. Support a great indie bookstore and an indie press with just one purchase. bit.ly/3caC1YV
Tarka the Otter in his natural habitat. Henry Williamson’s novel is written from the perspective of Tarka and follows him as he fishes, swims, mates and tries his best to avoid humans and their dogs. Tarka lives on the banks of the Taw and Torridge Rivers in northern Devon (🏴), but his is a world both recognizable and different from ours, and seeing it through his eyes is a rare treat for human readers. Tarka the Otter goes on sale today.
Quarantine reads day 46: János Székely’s Temptation is the story of Béla, a peasant from the countryside who moves to Budapest to find his family and start a life. He becomes a bellboy in a fancy hotel and witnesses how the rich live (and drink). Set in the 1930s, when Hungary was suffering from severe economic malaise and the growing ideologies of antisemetism and militaristic nationalism, it’s a Dickensian novel about class, sex, love, and righteous anger at an unequal and punitive society.
We've been previewing our Fall 2020 season on our blog, A Different Stripe. Two more titles for October, both translations (see Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller Essay" for an interesting insight into Leskov's stories).
She found "Typhoid" Mary Mallon but also worked tirelessly to reduce child fatality in the poorer parts of NYC. All this in a time when women were not allowed into medical schools. Read the article and then her memoir, "Fighting for Life", for more on a remarkable life and career.
Remembering Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, a pioneering public health professional who changed the course of medical history.
May Day 2020 quarantine reads.
Kids tired of being stuck at home? They can travel the world and travel in time (and maybe make some new friends) with these special boxes of books.
Are the kids in your life in need of a little adventure? Social distancing continues, but with these three boxes of children’s books, children can still make a new friend or two at home. Our NYC office is closed, but order with confidence: we have made arrangements to have these three boxes of boo...
"One gets the sense that Ribeyro had little interest in the question of good and evil; rather than heroes or antiheroes, his stories are populated with losers."
For Smokers Only—Lucas Iberico Lozada on Julio Ramón Ribeyro and the "flop" writers who came after magic realism.
The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro was 44 years old and living in Paris when he was diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live. Toward the end of his long short story “For Smokers Only…
Books by Susan Taubes and Natalia Ginzburg coming in September. Check out our blog for an ongoing preview of our fall/autumn season.
"Why? As with any writer we feel is overlooked, this has something to do with taste and something to do with luck. Graciliano’s novels are sinewy and subtly ironic and so don’t, perhaps, dovetail easily with how much of the world wants to see Brazil, whether as a land of beaches-caipirinhas-bossa nova, or vibrant cities fed by coffee plantations abutting the exotic Amazon. His characters ply Brazil’s arid Northeast; they are prickly and solitary; and his books’ claustrophobic atmospheres emanate from a singularly honed linguistic discipline, hard to pin down."
By Padma Viswanathan Why is Graciliano Ramos not read more widely outside of Brazil?* All educated Brazilians have read at least one of his books and more avid readers will readily name a favorite …
The latest ep of The Bookstore Podcast features Magda Szabó's boarding school adventure, Abigail.
This week we read celebrated Hungarian author Magda Szabo’s novel Abigail. Abigail is perhaps Szabo’s most popular work in Hungary, but was only recently translated into English for the first time by Len Rix and published by NYRB Classics. And let me tell you, we are thrilled that is was finally...
"Most other writers in comparison look like dilettantes."
—Patrick Kurp on Varlam Shalamov's stories from the Gulag.
Patrick Kurp reads and rereads “Sketches of the Criminal World,” the second volume of Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma stories translated by Donald Rayfield.
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Have you met Monster? Might we introduce you to him in this delightful stop-motion animation clip, animated by the team behind Wallace and Gromit and narrated by Michael Palin. We’re bringing Monster—created by Ellen Blance, Ann Cook, and Quentin Blake—back in a new treasury called Meet Monster: The First Big Monster Book (May), which collects his first six adventures.
#BeautifulBookAlert ..... Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy by @thedesirina comes out tomorrow! And we’re pleased as punch that Moderan and The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe are included.
Marion Fayolle’s gorgeous The Tenderness of Stones (@nyrcomics) went on sale yesterday and we just wanted to share a short preview.
You know you’re reading a d’Aulaires book when.....
One is the story of the wind from around the globe (and outer space) and throughout time; the other is a modern Swedish fairy tale; both go on sale today! #publicationday
Looking for a summer read for the whole family? We’d like to suggest The Curious Lobster by Richard W Hatch, with illustrations by Marion Freeman Wakeman. The book follows the many adventures of Mr. Lobster who swims up a river, goes on land and into a forest, hangs out with bears and beavers and turkeys, and even sails to an offshore island.
What you see is all we have left here at #awp19. Stop by booth 3043 while we still have books! #goodbooks
The awesome artist Joanna Neborsky made a video from versions of the covers to Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries: A Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl. They all look great! ・・・ I tormented @nyrbooks (and myself) making these many options for the covers of Uwe Johnson’s two-volume Anniversaries. See where we landed when the boxed set lands in stores Oct 18 — their biggest book ever!
A little video from @mairakalman’s party at @bklynlibrary this past Sunday, celebrating the re-release of her Max the Dog books and her latest, Cake. Everyone square danced the morning away, then stuffed themselves with cake. Watch till the end to see Maira.
Dominique Goblet in action! 🙌🏼 She's signing books at the NYRC table right. now. #moccafest2018
This is all we have left on this last day of #awp18, so come and get it!
And the award for cinematography goes to...THE NYRB CLASSICS WINTER SALE! http://bit.ly/NYRBWinterSale
End, grim winter, end! #henricole #noreaster
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