NYRB NEWS
Australia Book Launches for ‘Last Words from Montmartre’
There will be two book launches in Australia to celebrate the publication of the first English language edition of Tawainese writer Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre. The book’s translator, Ari Larissa Heinrich, will be present at each event to discuss the literary and thematic importance of Qiu’s last novel. See details and links to more information for each event below:
When: Sunday, June 15, 2014 at 3:30 PM* Where: Gleebooks in Sydney, Australia For more information about this launch, visit our event page here.
When: Friday, June 20, 2014 at 5 PM Where: Hares & Hyenas in Melbourne, Australia For more information on this event, go here.
*Presented in conjunction with the Department of Chinese Studies and the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
Daniel Mendelsohn on ‘The Inspired Voyage of Patrick Leigh Fermor’ in The New York Review of Books
In the June 19, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books, Daniel Mendelsohn reviewed The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s account of the third and final leg of his journey across Europe by foot.
Mendelsohn writes, “When you put down The Broken Road you feel what [Leigh Fermor] himself felt on departing from Mount Athos…‘a great deal of regret.’”
Read the review in the June 19, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books or here.
Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern in The New York Times Book Review
Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern’s book, No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State appeared in the June 8, 2014 New York Times Book Review with a glowing review. Times reviewer Dagmar Herzog calls the work a “spare, elegantly argued book” and praises Sifton and Stern’s “luminously comprehensible” profile of the “intricacies of faith” in the lives of their subjects.
Look for the review in the June 8, 2014 New York Times Book Review or read it right here.
Panel Discussion: BAM’s ‘The Old Woman’ and the Russian Avant-Garde Movement
On Monday, June 9th, at 7:30 p.m., Greenlight Bookstore will host a panel discussion about BAM’s upcoming production of The Old Woman, adapted from a short story by Daniil Kharms, co-founder of the OBERIU.
OBERIU—the Russian abbreviation for “Union of Real Art”—was an early 20th century underground avant-garde collective founded by Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky. The panelists are: Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich, translators of Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think; Mark Krotov, editor of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms; and panel moderator Ian Dreiblatt.
Greenlight Bookstore is located at 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY. For more information, call 718-246-0200 or visit the Greenlight Bookstore website.
Literature & World War I: A Panel
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank will be discussing the literature of the Great War with professor Christopher Winks and translator Richard Greeman at The Commons in Brooklyn on Thursday, June 5, 2014.
For information about the discussion and the panelists, visit the The Commons event page here.
NYRB Classics recently published Gabriel Chevallier’s novel of World War I, Fear and will be publishing Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován’s recently-discovered memoir, The Burning of the World, which follows the author to the front lines, in August 2014. In March 2014, our all-ebook imprint NYRB Lit published Traitor, Stephen Daisley’s novel about the Battle of Gallipoli.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s ‘Autobiography of a Corpse’ Wins the 2014 Read Russia Prize
Last week, NYRB Classics was delighted to accept the 2014 Read Russia Prize for Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s Autobiography of a Corpse on behalf of translator Joanne Turnbull. Awarded each spring, the Read Russia Prize celebrates the best English translations of Russian literature.
An Invitation for Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky, translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, and Happy Moscow by Andrei Platonov, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, were also nominated for the prize. An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler, made the shortlist.
PEN Literary Awards Longlist Includes Four NYRB Titles
We are pleased to announce that four titles published by New York Review Books are on the long list for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards.
Martin Filler’s second volume of Makers of Modern Architecture has been nominated for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Nominated for the PEN Translation Prize are three NYRB Classics:
- An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman and translated by Elizabeth and Robert Chandler
- Transit by Anna Seghers and translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
- Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozo
The PEN shortlist will be announced on June 17 and the 2014 PEN Literary Award winners will be named on July 30.
Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Choire Sicha at BookCourt
On Tuesday, May 20 at 7:00 pm, Daniel Mendelsohn will discuss his collection Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture with editor and author Choire Sicha at BookCourt in Brooklyn.
Mendelsohn has earned acclaim over the last decade in his writings for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review. He has been called “one of the greatest critics of our time” by Poets & Writers. Waiting for Barbarians highlights Mendelsohn’s ability to range across cultural and historical topics, from the film Avatar, to Susan Sontag’s journals, demonstrating Mendelsohn’s “sweep as a cultural critic is as impressive as his depth.”
For more information about the event, visit our calendar.