On Monday, May 6th writers Lev Grossman, Nathaniel Adams, and Jen Vafidis will discuss Kingsley Amis’s newly reissued works of genre fiction, the science fiction/alternative world novel The Alteration and the ghost story The Green Man. Join us at 7pm at the Half King Bar & Restaurant at 505 W 23rd Street in New York City.

On April 11th at 6pm, an all-star line-up of Richard Sieburth, Michael Kunichika, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Matvei Yankelevich will convene at NYU Humanities Initiative to celebrate the publication of Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation For Me to Think (translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, with additional translations by Matvei Yankelevich). The evening will include a conversation on the “end of the avant-garde.” A reception will follow.

An Invitation For Me to Think, with poems selected by Eugene Ostashevsky, is the first of two volumes in the new NYRB Poets series, and the first book of Vvedensky’s to appear in English.

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On April 9th at 7pm, Poetry magazine senior editor Don Share will read from and discuss his translation of Miguel Hernández’s poems, published this month in the new NYRB Poets series, at Poets House.

Miguel Hernández, selected and translated by Don Share, has already been credited in the United States with “bringing readers closer to the poet’s sense of language and meaning” (Huffington Post). It is a wrenching, luminous volume by a great Spanish poet revered by Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Robert Bly, among others.

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In this past weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote, “Many adults have sought over the years to recall the strange, emotionally rich adventure told in The Abandoned. It is these readers—and bookish current children ages 10 and older—who will most appreciate the book’s handsome reissue.” Gurdon goes on to suggest that this 1950 novel “will perhaps snag in the imagination of a new generation of readers.”

Tonight, April 5, at 7pm, Renata Adler, author of Speedboat and Pitch Dark (recently released by NYRB Classics) will join David Shields for a conversation with Daily Beast books editor Lucas Wittman at the Strand bookstore.

David Shields has been a vocal champion of Renata Adler’s writing. In How Literature Saved My Life, his most recent book, he writes, “I yield to no one in my admiration for Renata Adler’s first novel Speedboat; it is, I think, one of the most original and formally exciting American novels to have been published in the last twenty-five years.”

Speedboat and Pitch Dark, reissued by NYRB Classics last month to widespread acclaim, have already dazzled a new generation of readers across the country.

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On March 27, Join NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank and translators Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich as we celebrate the work of Alexander Vvedensky, one of the most influential poets and thinkers of twentieth-century Russia. An Invitation for Me to Think is the first book of Vvedensky’s poems to appear in English.

The book launch, co-sponsored by Read Russia and New York Review Books, will be held at 6:30 at Pravda Bar in New York City.

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An Invitation for Me to Think is one of the first two volumes in the new NYRB Poets series.