NYRB NEWS
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.
Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern in Washington DC
On Monday, September 23rd, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern will give a talk about their new book, No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State, at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C. The event starts at 7 pm.
On Tuesday, September 24th, they will present the book at the Goethe-Institut Washington. To register for this event, visit the Goethe-Institut website. The event starts at 6:30 pm.
Both events are free of charge.
NYRB and McNally Jackson Celebrate Kingsley Amis
NYRB and McNally Jackson are teaming up to present a new reading series. This month features a celebration of Kingsley Amis and the new releases One Fat Englishman and Girl, 20.
On Sunday, September 22, at 6pm, join NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank, Katie Roiphe (author of In Praise of Messy Lives), Lucas Wittman (literary editor of The Daily Beast), Christian Lorentzen (editor at the London Review of Books), and Michael Moynihan (reporter atNewsweek/The Daily Beast) for what promises to be an incandescent conversation on one of the masters of modern fiction.
Walser Takes New York
A Schoolboy’s Diary—a new collection of short stories by Robert Walser—is being celebrated in New York this month.
On Tuesday, September 10, at 7pm, 192 Books hosts a discussion of the book between translator Damion Searls and experimental poet Mina Pam Dick (author of I Am the Robert Walser).
Then, on Friday, September 27, also at 7pm, Ben Lerner (who wrote the book’s introduction) and Damion Searls will celebrate the book in conversation at BookCourt.
Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian says that “everyone who reads Walser falls in love with him.” See why.