NYRB NEWS
A Celebration of John Williams’ ‘Stoner’
On Tuesday, November 18, at 7 p.m., join NYRB Classics and Brooklyn by the Book in celebrating Stoner, the international best seller by John Williams. Critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn, poet and memoirist Honor Moore, and novelist Ruth Rendell will discuss the incredible—and still-growing—resurgence of the novel’s popularity. Writer and literary critic Liesl Schillinger will moderate the evening.
The panel will be held in the Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza. This is a free event, though reservations are strongly encouraged, and seating is first-come, first-served. Visit the Brooklyn by the Book event page to RSVP here.
Kristallnacht Program: Resisters Against Hitler
On Monday, November 10, at 1:30 p.m., Fritz Stern and Elisabeth Sifton will discuss their book, No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler, at the Central Queens Y, 67-09 108th Street, Queens.
For more information, visit the Central Queens Y website.
Celebrate Jewish Book Month with Ruchama King Feuerman
Celebrate Jewish Book Month with Ruchama King Feuerman, author of In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, a novel set in Jerusalem that tells 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.
Ruchama King Feuerman will discuss In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist at the following events:
The Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Book & Arts Fair
Tuesday, November 4th, 10 a.m. Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX
The Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton Cultural Arts and Book Fest
Wednesday, November 5th, 7 p.m. Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton 525 Versailles Drive, Dayton, OH
Tuesday, November 11th, at 7 p.m. The Aaron Family Jewish Community Center of Dallas 7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX
Congregation Agudath Israel of West Essex
Sunday, November 16, at 10 a.m. 20 Academy Road, Caldwell, NJ
Stroum Jewish Community Center
Thursday, November 20th, at 7:30 p.m. 2618 NE 80th Street, Seattle, WA
Sunday, November 23rd, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Pollin Chapel, Schnitzer Family Center 1972 NW Flanders Portland, OR
Events with Darryl Pinckney in Boston and Baltimore
On Monday, November 3rd, at 7 p.m., join Darryl Pinckney at the Harvard Bookstore (1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA) for a pre-election discussion of his new book, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, a reflection on a century and a half of black participation in US electoral politics. The event is co-sponsored by The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard. For more information, visit the Harvard Book Store event page.
On Thursday, November 13th, at 6:30 p.m., Darryl Pinckney will give a talk about Blackballed at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore as a part of the Brown Lecture Series. The lecture will be in the Poe Room of the Central Library, located at 400 Cathedral Street. For more information visit the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s website.
Ian Buruma at the 25th Chicago Humanities Festival
On Saturday, November 1st, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., join author and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books Ian Buruma at the 25th Chicago Humanities Festival, where he will discuss his new collection of essays, Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War.
The event is part of the Bill and Penny Obenshain Program on Global Affairs. For more information and tickets, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival website.
Meet Chris Raschka, Author of ‘Alphabetabum’
On Saturday, November 1st, at 3 p.m., bring your kids to Labyrinth Books (122 Nassau Street, Princeton) for an afternoon with Caldecott Medal-winner Chris Raschka, who will talk about his latest book, Alphabetabum, published by The New York Review Children’s Collection. Children will have a chance to write their own poems, like those in Alphabetabum, with Raschka’s guidance.
For more details, check the Labyrinth Books website.
NYRB at the Boston Book Festival
New York Review Books and The New York Review of Books will be at the Boston Book Festival this Saturday, October 25, from 10–5. Come visit us at booth #3, where we’ll have books at discounted prices, free copies of The New York Review of Books, and more.
From 1:30–2 p.m., join Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka at the Boston Book Festival’s Storytime, where he will read from his latest book, Alphabetabum: An Album of Rare Photographs and Medium Verses, at First Church Boston, 66 Marlborough Street. For more information, visit the Boston Book Festival website.
‘An Invitation for Me to Think’ Shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association’s National Translation Award
NYRB is pleased to announce that Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think, edited and translated from the Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky, additional translation by Matvei Yankelevich, is one of five books shortlisted for this year’s National Translation Award, given by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
The judges’ announcement is as follows:
“Vvedensky is a marvel: a poet too little known in Russia, and not known at all in the English-speaking world, is revealed as a major 20th-century world poet—wonderful, wonderfully strange, and haunting. The alchemical translation, with its shifty rhymes and non-rhymes, intense images and absent logic, knits and unknits reality before the reader’s eyes, walking not a line so much as a live wire.”
To see the rest of the shortlist, visit the ALTA website.