NYRB NEWS
Celebrate the new NYRB Classics section at Book Culture NYC
On Tuesday, May 17, at 7 p.m., join us at Book Culture (536 W. 112th St, New York) to toast the store's new NYRB Classics section, which will include the complete series—all 430 titles.
Series editor Edwin Frank will give remarks, along with other introducers, authors, and translators of NYRB Classics. We hope to see you there!
Download Reading Group Guides for NYRB Classics
We've added new guides to our collection of Reading Group Guides for NYRB Classics. Visit the guide page to download sets of questions, with suggestions for further reading and viewing.
Recent additions include guides for Barbara Comyn's Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, John Ehle's The Land Breakers, and Benito Pérez Galdós's Tristana. Guides for Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel and Patrick Modiano's In the Café of Lost Youth and Young Once are coming soon.
Elizabeth Willis’s ‘Alive’: A 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Finalist
Elizabeth Willis’s collection Alive: New and Selected Poems was selected as one of two finalists for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. In their citation for Alive, the jury wrote “A book worthy of its title in which the poet calls readers to look deep within themselves and regard anew the struggle to live.”
NYRB Classics series editor Edwin Frank interviewed on The Paris Review's Daily blog and Lit Hub
Last week, Edwin Frank discussed his greatest literary rediscoveries, the history of the Classics series, and the success of John Williams's Stoner and Magda Szabó's The Door, among other topics, with Susannah Hunnewell on The Paris Review's blog. You can read their conversation here.
Frank was also interviewed by Yongxi Wu of Lit Hub. Read their discussion about John Williams, Frank's personal connection with Stoner, and American academic life here.
Meet Linda Rosenkrantz, author of <i>Talk</i>, at AWP
Praise for <i>Really the Blues</i> in <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>
In the March 19-20, 2016, issue of The Wall Street Journal, Martin Riker reviewed the NYRB Classics edition of Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe's Really the Blues. Read an excerpt below, and the rest of the Riker's review here.
“American counter-culture classic Really the Blues [is] a stylized oral history that anticipates the Beat novel…Really the Blues is part quixotic adventure novel, part inside-scoop…Mezzrow’s voice is funny, impulsive, full of itself and often spectacularly scatological….Listening to “Mezz” is tremendous fun…the book’s true literary inheritance is its style…one of the great, flawed, jubilant, jive-talking characters of American literature.” —Martin Riker, The Wall Street Journal
Margaret Jull Costa commended by Premio Valle Inclán prize judges
Congratulations to Margaret Jull Costa, who was recently honored with a commendation by the judges of the Premio Valle Inclán prize for translation from the Spanish for her translation of Tristana by Benito Peréz Galdós. The judges wrote: "An excellent, modernising translation of a light, slightly mocking novel - a classic - once filmed by Buñuel."
This is the fourth time that Jull Costa has been commended for her translation work by the Premio Valle Inclán prize panel and she has been awarded the prize three times.
'Hill' Reviewed in 'Publishers Weekly'
We're pleased to share an excerpt from Publishers Weekly's review of Jean Giono's Hill, which NYRB Classics will reissue in a new translation by Paul Eprile, with an introduction by David Abram, in April 2016:
"In this 1929 classic, an elegiac ode to Provence, Giono tells a simple tale of peasants living in a valley...Giono describes every element of the surrounding French landscape in luscious detail, but it is the hill that physically and spiritually dominates the land. Giono delights in watching his characters interact and go about their business of drinking wine, making up stories, and contemplating normal human unhappiness...The ultimate gift of Giono’s short novel is that it allows the reader to travel back to a distant, almost primitive time in rural France."
Read the rest of the review here.