NYRB NEWS
More Success for Author John Williams
We are excited to announce that John Williams’s Stoner has been selected as Waterstones’s Book of the Year in the UK.
Now an international bestseller in several countries, this once overlooked classic has been championed by Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, and Colum McCann, among many others.
NYRB Classics reissued Stoner in 2006 and we are thrilled that the rest of the world has noticed this extraordinary novel.
Williams’s highly acclaimed Butcher’s Crossing, also in the NYRB Classics series, was just published in Holland and is already on the Dutch bestseller list.
A ‘New York Times’ Notable Book of 2013
We’re pleased to announce that Artemis Cooper’s biography, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, has been chosen by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 2013. In his review in The New York Times, Christopher Benfey wrote Cooper “has written an affectionately intimate, informative and forgiving biography.”
NYRB Classics is the US publisher of books written by Patrick Leigh Fermor, including A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, the volumes that tell of his journey by foot across 1930s Europe. The final volume of the trilogy, The Broken Road, will be published in March 2014.
Slavko Goldstein at the Harvard Coop
On Thursday, November 14, Slavko Goldstein will talk about his new book, 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning, the astounding account of the fateful year when his father was arrested and taken away by Croatian fascists. Goldstein’s account blends his family’s history with the larger history of Yugoslavia during World War II.
The Harvard Coop is located at 1400 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge, Mass. The event is from 7–8pm. For more information, visit the Coop’s website.
NYC Events with Slavko Goldstein for his new book, ‘1941’
1941, The Year That Keeps Returning is the astonishing memoir by award-winning author, editor, and publisher Slavko Goldstein of the fateful year when the pro-fascist nationalists in Croatia were brought to power by the Nazi occupiers of Yugoslavia.
Slavko Goldstein and Charles Simic in Conversation, Barnes & Noble, Upper West Side At 7pm on November 12, Poet and frequent New York Review contributor Charles Simic, who has written the introduction to 1941, will join Goldstein for a conversation about this important new book. Of 1941, Simic writes, “It deserves attention because it explains, perhaps better than any book I know of, how different ethnic groups, who lived side by side in peace for centuries, were made to turn against one another and become each other’s executioners in that unhappy country.” For more information, visit the Barnes & Noble website.
Slavko Goldstein and Colm Tóibón in Conversation, Community Bookstore, BrooklynAt 7pm on November 13, Slavko Goldstein will discuss his new book with award-winning writer Colm Tóibón at Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Colm Tóibón is the author of many books, including The Testament of Mary, Brooklyn, andMothers and Sons. Of Goldstein, Tóibón writes, “he has a great gift as a story-teller, but also as someone with a forensic intelligence, and it is this combination which makes the book so engaging.” For more information, visit the Community Bookstore’s website.
Slavko Goldstein and Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Battery Park New York Review contributor Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of the award-winning The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, the account of his search for details about six family members who were killed during the Holocaust. Mendelsohn will speak with Slavko Goldstein about 1941 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place. Tickets are $10, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for members, and can be purchased on the Museum’s website or at the door.
Artemis Cooper, Biographer of Patrick Leigh Fermor, in NYC
On Monday, November 4 at 7 pm, Artemis Cooper will give a talk about the new biography, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, at Barnes and Noble on the Upper East Side, 150 E 86th Street, New York. The talk will include a visual presentation, and is part of the B&N Writers on Writers series.
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On Tuesday, November 5 at 7pm, Artemis Cooper will discuss the new biography at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, New York. She will accompany her talk with a visual presentation of images from the legendary explorer’s life and times.
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“Last Year at Marienbad” at Film Forum on October 22
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, published by NYRB Classics, was the inspiration for Alain Resnais’s 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad.
Critic and New York Review contributor J. Hoberman will introduce the film. Alain Robbe-Grillet’s screenplay was nominated for an Oscar.
This is Film Forum’s third event celebrating the 50th anniversary of The New York Review of Books.
Tickets are $12.50, $7 for members, and can be purchased at the Film Forum’s site.
Celebrating “The Bridge of Beyond” at the 92nd Street Y
On October 14th, The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart will be celebrated at the 92nd Street Y.
Jamaica Kincaid, who wrote the introduction to the NYRB Classics edition of Simone Schwarz-Bart’s The Bridge of Beyond, will read from the novel (Schwarz-Bart is unable to attend).
“That a book so radical in style, in form and in content, is not widely known in this country, and its influence not deeply felt, is one of those unfortunate mysteries of Time and Place,” wrote Kincaid. “As if from out of the blue, from the Great Beyond, from the margins, a woman from Guadeloupe has given us an unforgettable hymn to the resilience and power of women.”
Ms. Kincaid will be joined by Merle Hodge. Ms. Hodge will read from her novels.
For ticket information, please visit the 92nd St Y website.
Special NYC Event with Martin Filler
On Tuesday, September 24, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and The New York Review of Books will celebrate the publication of Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II, the new book by contributor Martin Filler. He will be joined by architects Michael Arad, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. The event, which will be held at the Explorers Club, 26 East 70th Street, will start at 6pm. A reception will follow the discussion.
This event is part of the Clark’s ongoing series of conversations on architecture being held in New York City in anticipation of the opening of Tadao Ando’s second building on the Institute’s Williamstown, Massachusetts, campus.
To order tickets, visit the Clark Art Institute’s website. For more information, call 413-458-0524.