NYRB NEWS
Joel Agee on ‘Prometheus Bound’ at events in NYC
Join Joel Agee, the translator of the NYRB Classics edition of Prometheus Bound, for discussions about the provocative Greek tragedy at events around New York City.
On Tuesday, March 24, at 7 p.m., Damion Searls and Joel Agee will be in conversation about Prometheus Bound at The Community Bookstore (143 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn).
On Monday, March 30, from 7 to 8 p.m., Joel Agee will discuss his translation of Prometheus Bound, and Ron Cephas Jones, who starred in the acclaimed Getty Villa production of the play, will give dramatic readings of the text at the Strand Bookstore (828 Broadway, New York).
On Tuesday, March 31, at 7 p.m., Joel Agee will discuss Prometheus Bound with poet Tom Sleigh at The New York Public Library (Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium, 476 5th Ave, New York). Edwin Frank, series editor of NYRB Classics, will introduce the speakers. This event is sponsored by the Onassis Foundation (USA) and New York Review Books.
Upcoming Events: ‘Go Figure!’ and ‘Moral Agents’
On Friday, March 13, at 6 p.m., join New York Review Books, the American Academy in Rome, and McKee Gallery in celebrating the publication of Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. American Academy in Rome President Mark Robbins and Robert Storr will provide brief introductory remarks on Philip Guston and the book, and a reception will follow. McKee Gallery is located at 745 5th Avenue #400, New York.
On Monday, March 16, at 7 p.m., Edward Mendelson will discuss his latest book, Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers at Politics & Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, D.C.
Yashar Kemal, 1922–2015
Events for ‘Moral Agents’ and ‘A Legacy’ in New York
On Tuesday, March 3rd, at 7 p.m., join NYRB Classics in celebrating the release of Sybille Bedford’s A Legacy at The Community Bookstore, 143 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Author Brenda Wineapple, who wrote the introduction to the NYRB Classics edition of A Legacy, will be in conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn.
On Wednesday, March 4, at 7 p.m., join Edward Mendelson and Edwin Frank for a discussion of Mendelson’s latest book, Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers at Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway, New York.
Edward Mendelson’s ‘Moral Agents’
Edward Mendelson’s Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential 20th-century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W. H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Norman Mailer and Frank O’Hara. Hear Edward Mendelson discuss Moral Agents at the following events:
92nd Street Y
February 22, 2015, 11 a.m.
1395 Lexington Avenue, New York
Book Culture
February 25, 2015, 7 p.m.
536 W 112th Street, New York
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s 100th Birthday
Patrick Leigh Fermor, born on February 11, 1915, would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. To commemorate this anniversary and “one of the greatest travel writers of all time” (The Sunday Times), all New York Review Books titles by and about Leigh Fermor will be available at 30% off for a limited time, including the author’s renowned trilogy detailing his youthful trek across pre-World-War-II Europe: A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and The Broken Road.
See a list of all New York Review Books titles by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor here.
‘In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist’ Named a Sophie Brody Award Honor Book
We are pleased to announce that Ruchama King Feuerman’s In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist received an honorable mention for the 2015 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Chicago.
In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, set in Jerusalem, is the story of two expatriate Americans—a kabbalist’s assistant and a beautiful motorcycle-riding woman—and an Arab janitor, whose lives become intertwined in a variety of ways in the courtyard of an elderly kabbalist and his wife.
NYRB at ALA Chicago
New York Review Books and The New York Review of Books will be at the ALA Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits in Chicago this Friday, January 30th, through Monday, February 2nd.
For those attending ALA, visit us at booth #4728 in McCormick Place. A selection of books will be for sale at discounted prices, and we will be giving out free issues of The New York Review of Books. For details visit the ALA website.