NYRB NEWS
Upcoming Events with Paul Eprile
Paul Eprile, translator of Jean Giono's Melville—and, previously, Giono's Hill—will be doing a few events to mark the US publication of Melville. We hope to see you at one of them.
A Reading of Melville
Tuesday, October 17, 8pm
City of Asylum, 40 W North Ave, Pittsburgh
Translating Jean Giono: A Conversation
with Alyson Waters and Emmanuelle Artel
Monday, October 23, 7pm
La Maison Française of New York University, 16 Washington Mews, New York
A Discussion of Jean Giono
with Edmund White
Tuesday, October 24, 7pm
192 Books, 192 10th Ave, New York
Books You Should Read and Gift: 'The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick' and 'The Doorman's Repose'
We were excited to find our new book The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, included on Lit Hub's list of "15 Books You Should Read this October." Lit Hub features editor Jess Bergman writes, "[T]his cross-section of Hardwick’s 50-year career renders questions of whether criticism can be art obsolete: Taking in her complicated, flyaway sentences...you know you couldn’t possibly be looking at anything else."
If you're getting a head start on holiday shopping, take a look at Publishers Weekly's 2017 Holiday Gift Guide, which includes Chris Raschka's The Doorman's Repose.
Visit us at the Brooklyn Book Festival and BBF Children's Day
On the weekend of September 16th and 17th, NYRB will have booths at the Brooklyn Book Festival and the Brooklyn Book Festival Children's Day.
The Brooklyn Book Festival Children's Day will be held at MetroTech Commons on Saturday, September 16th, from 10-4. We will have a selection of our children's books available at discounted prices. Also, join us for events with Maira Kalman and Chris Raschka:
At 11am, an event with Maira Kalman, author of Max Makes a Million and Hey Willy, See the Pyramids, will be held at the Picture Book Stage at MetroTech Commons.
At 1pm, Chris Raschka will read from his book The Doorman's Repose and children will be invited to draw and decorate packages that they imagine could be delivered to the doorman's building. The event will be held at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 6 Metro Tech Center, 4th floor.
At 3pm, Chris Rascka will join Katy Wu, Liniers, Gregg Schigiel, George O’Connor, Misa Saburi, Alix Delinois and Ruth Chan for "Illustrator Smackdown!," a dramatic and hilarious live action drawing competition.
The Brooklyn Book Festival will be held on Sunday, September 17th, from 10-6:30, at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, 209 Joralemon Street. Find us at booth numbers 409 and 410, where we will have discounted books and free issues of The New York Review of Books.
'Berlin-Hamlet' and 'Zama' Nominated for National Translation Award
We are very pleased to announce that two books from our imprints have been shortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award, which is awarded by The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
Berlin-Hamlet (NYRB Poets), by Szilárd Borbély, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet, has been nominated in the poetry category. The judges write, "Ottilie Mulzet’s translations render Borbély’s voice and grief palpable and the striking beauty of his poems real."
Zama (NYRB Classics), by Antonio di Benedetto, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen, has been nominated in the prose category. The judges write, "Esther Allen’s superb translation captures the remarkable atmosphere and existential anguish of di Benedetto’s masterwork."
Congratulations to both of our stellar translators on this honor. The winners will be announced this October.
Megan Abbott and Sarah Weinman on Dorothy B. Hughes at The Mysterious Bookshop
Winner of the Notting Hill Essay Prize Announced
Congratulations to William Max Nelson, author of the essay "Five Ways of Being a Painting," which has won the 2017 Notting Hill Essay Prize. The judges awarded Nelson's essay for its “its curious mix of the philosophical and the personal, the argumentative and the ruminative, that makes it a real essay.”
The biennial Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize is open to all essays written in English of between 2,000 and 8,000 words, on any subject. The first prize is £20,000 and five runners up each receive £1,000, making it the richest non-fiction prize in the world. Essays by runners-up Laura Esther Wolfson, Garret Keizer, Karen Holmberg, Patrick McGuinness, Dasha Shkurpela are included in the volume.
'Austerity Measures' Reviewed on 'The New Yorker' Page-Turner
For the past decade, the news has been grim, and there is a surplus of poets who have tuned in: ‘Poets writing graffiti on walls, poets reading in public squares, theaters, and empty lots, poets performing in slams, chanting slogans, and singing songs at rallies, poets blogging and posting on the internet, poets teaming up with artists and musicians, poets teaching workshops to schoolchildren and migrants,’ as Karen Van Dyck writes in her introduction to Austerity Measures, an anthology that presents contemporary Greek-language poetry as a thriving community amid the turmoil.
- "Nightmare Pink," by Elena Penga, translated by Karen Van Dyck
- "Around the House," by Danae Sioziou, translated by Rachel Hadas
- "Simple Math," by Yannis Stiggas, translated by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
- "Fuck Armageddon," by Jazra Khaleed, translated by Max Ritvo
- "Poetry Does Not Suffice," by Statamis Polenakis, translated by A.E. Stallings
Tom Kremer, founder of Notting Hill Editions, 1930-2017