NYRB NEWS
Congratulations to Ian Buruma and Donald Nicholson-Smith!
This week, Ian Buruma won the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for his collection Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War. This fall, NYRB will reissue Buruma’s classic The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan.
Donald Nicholson-Smith won the 28th Annual Translation Prize of the French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation for fiction for his translation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s The Mad and the Bad. NYRB Classics also publishes Nicholson-Smith’s translation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Fatale.
June Events in New York, Berkeley, and Seattle
Please join us for these exciting June events with Elizabeth Willis, author of the NYRB Poets collection Alive: New and Selected Poems, and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, translator of the NYRB Classic Songs of Kabir.
On Thursday, June 4th, at 7 p.m. Elizabeth Willis will read from Alive and the poets Magdalena Zurawski and Rod Smith will each read from their own work at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, 126A Front Street, Brooklyn, NY. For more information, please visit the Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop event page here.
On Saturday, June 6th, at 1 p.m., Arvind Krishna Mehrotra speaks with Fabiano Alborghetti (Directory of the Vulnerable), John W. Evans (The Consolations), and Tess Taylor (The Forage House) about the global reach of poetry at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA. For more information, visit the 2015 Bay Area Book Festival website here.
On Wednesday, June 10th, at 6:30 p.m. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra will discuss South Asian art and literature with art historian Sonal Khuller and fiction writer Prajwal Parajuly at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 East Prospect, Seattle, WA. For more information and advance tickets ($10 regular, $6 SAM members, $7 students/seniors) visit the Seattle Art Museum event page here.
On Thursday, June 25th, at 7 p.m. Elizabeth Willis will read from Alive for the opening reading of the 23rd Annual Poets House Showcase, which is part of this year’s River To River festival in New York City. The reading will be held at Kray Hall in Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY.
NYRB Events on May 20 and 21
On Wednesday, May 20, at 8 p.m., Elizabeth Willis, author of the NYRB Poets collection Alive: New and Selected Poems, and Peter Richards will read from their latest work at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th Street, New York.
On Thursday, May 21, at 7 p.m., join translators and authors Jason Weiss, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Sylvia Molloy as they discuss the life and work of Silvina Ocampo, the author of Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories and the collection of poetry Silvina Ocampo, both published by New York Review Books.
For more information, visit our events page.
NYRB Events on April 26 and 30
On Sunday, April 26, at 4 p.m., NYRB Classics series editor Edwin Frank will be in discussion with Edward Mendelson about his new book, Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
On Thursday, April 30, at 6 p.m., join Lawrence Kramer, the editor of the new NYRB Poets edition of Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, as he discusses the historical and literary importance of Whitman’s collection with Lawrence Buell and Elisa New, professors of American Literature at Harvard University. The event will take place at Harvard University’s Paine Hall, Music Building, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA.
For more information, visit our events page.
NYRB titles on the PEN Literary Awards shortlist
We’re pleased to announce that Peter Bush’s translation of Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook has been shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize and Ian Buruma’s Theater of Cruelty has made the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay shortlist.
The winners will be announced on June 8, at the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony.
Upcoming NYRB Events
Join NYRB for events in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C.
On Monday, April 20, at 7 p.m., Renata Adler will discuss her new book of collected nonfiction, After the Tall Timber, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC.
On Tuesday, April 21, at 7 p.m., Adler will talk about After the Tall Timber at BookCourt, 163 Court St., Brooklyn, NY.
On Tuesday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m., Freeman Dyson will be in conversation about his new book, Dreams of Earth and Sky, with Dave Goldberg, professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics at Drexel University, at the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA.
On Thursday, April 23, from 7 to 8 p.m., join New York Review Books, Archipelago Books, and the Institut Ramon Llull at the New York Public Library for a celebration of Saint Jordi’s Day and Catalan literature. Jordi Puntí and Colm Toíbín will discuss the work and legacy of a great Catalonian author, Josep Pla, whose books include The Gray Notebook, published by NYRB Classics.
On Friday, April 24, at 7 p.m., Tim Parks will discuss his new essay collection, Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books, at BookCourt, 163 Court St., Brooklyn, NY.
For more information, visit our events page.
Happy Birthday, Kingsley Amis!
Kingsley Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century.
NYRB Classics publishes Amis’s The Old Devils, Take a Girl Like You, Girl, 20, The Green Man, The Alteration, One Fat Englishman, Lucky Jim, and Ending Up. In honor of his birthday, all NYRB Classics by Kingsley Amis will be available at 30% off for a limited time.
Titles from NYRB longlisted for PEN awards and shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award
We are pleased to announce that the following books from NYRB have made the longlists and shortlists for PEN awards and a Lambda Literary award.
Ian Buruma’s Theater of Cruelty has been included on the longlist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook, translated by Peter Bush, and Tove Jansson’s The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, translated by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella, have been included on the Pen Translation Prize longlist.
Finalists will be announced on April 15, and the winners of all 2015 PEN awards will be announced on May 13 and honored at PEN’s Literary Awards Ceremony on June 8 at The New School in NYC.
Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich, has been shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category. Winners of the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Awards will be announced at a gala ceremony on June 1st in NYC.