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Last Seen Profiles
Since twitter is wild west at the moment, I'm going to pipe up to say that those of you who are dragging Tove Jansson for not being sufficiently "adult" in her writing are showing if not your whole ass, a good portion of it.
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Susan Taubes's novella, Lament for Julia, was long-discussed among her devotees (Samuel Beckett was an early reader and enthusiast) but remained unavailable until today. Also included in this volume is a selection of Taubes's short stories.
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Are novellas having a moment? We are seeing very notable increases in sales of A Month in the Country and The Invention of Morel. Would love to know if there is something behind the increase in either.
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The Tove Jansson biopic, Tove, now has a US distributor! Great poster too.
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Question: How many of you look at the list of other books in the NYRB series at the end of each book. Have you discovered books you've later pursued there? Do you spend time mulling over it? It might surprise you to know we spend quite some time assembling these.
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Coming this October, I Used To Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz, with an introduction by
@mollylambert
and cover art by
@marilynminter
. It is a generous volume of uncollected journalism and essays.
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It's a good thing you waited to read Swann's Way and The Stronghold (aka The Tartar Steppe) because today we publish a previously hard-to-find translation of the former (by James Grieve) and a brand-new translation of the latter (by Lawrence Venuti).
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A message to you from Sonny Rollins. (These are the closing lines of his forthcoming Notebooks, edited Sam V. H. Reese.)
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Thinking again about Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä’s method for washing dishes when on their small island: Dirty dishes went in a box under the bed. When it rained they were dragged outside where they would “wash themselves.”
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Happy pub day to these two terrific books by the legendary Diana Athill. If you don’t know her, or know her mostly for her late-life memoirs, these works—a memoir and a novel—about the travails of youth & triumphs of adulthood are worth picking up.
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Like a love letter from your partner's dead ex, sent from beyond the grave, Edith Wharton's Ghosts has just gone off to the printer.
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If the cover copy of this book doesn't get you juiced, can you even call yourself an NYRB Classics superfan?
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pssst...The New York Review of Books (
@nybooks
) has a new website. To celebrate, the full site (including the archive of 50+ years of articles), is unpaywalled from now until Nov. 3!
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It turns out to be slightly more fun to get hate mail (for publishing an author who died nearly 140 years ago) than one would have expected. When was the last time we were called “whitebread candyass chickenshit bourgeois motherfuckers”?
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Hurray for UPS workers reaching a tentative deal. If you are a reader, you should be grateful to your UPS drivers.
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We’ve suddenly become beloved by many sexy accounts. Thank you, sisters!
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Merry Christmas and happy new year from last year's NYRB book tree!
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Forget about dramatizations about the rise of Napoleon, what you need is a dramatization about the resurrection of Napoleon.
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On sale today is The Limit, Rosalind Belben's short, poetic novel of love, death, marriage and the body. Belben's work—never widely available in the US—was too graphic for the mostly male reviewers of the mid-70s. Its time has come.
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“For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they will like.”
(the only good book blurb)
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Doing our part to lighten the tone on here (see recent rt’s) so we can go back to tweeting about books narrated from deathbeds and the gulag.
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Some new translations coming from NYRB Classics this August and September.
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Summer is here, and we want to make sure you have plenty of reading for the season: buy 2 books from the NYRB Classics series and save 20%, 3 books and save 30%, 4 or more books and save 40%. Almost 600 titles to choose from....
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Have you ever wondered what becomes of printer’s proofs of your beloved NYRB Classics? Here is Tabitha making good use of Platonov’s Chevengur.
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Swear we aren't trying to manifest Babalon (aka the Mother of Abominations) by using a painting by (Marjorie Cameron) on the cover of Lisa Tuttle's My Death. The book is uncanny enough all by itself.
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Who's fixing to start reading Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries starting on August 21, the day on which the book begins?
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Congratulations to Jon Fosse on his Nobel and a very hearty congratulations to our old friend Damion Searls, the translator of Fosse's Septology (as well as of other of his books)! Damion we knew you when…
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The
@latimes
made a very cool data visualization of the art and colors on all 500+ books in the Classics series.
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A sneak peek at cover proofs of two Dino Buzzati books coming this spring—ranging from the painfully real story of A Love Affair (tr. Joseph Green) to the absurd magical realism of The Stronghold (tr. Lawrence Venuti; previously translated as The Tartar Steppe).
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One time a member of the Grateful Dead ordered a book directly from us. At least one person (who worked on the web end) was excited. The rest of us didn’t recognize the name.
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Leonora Carrington's Hearing Trumpet is going into its third printing (paper gods willing). Is it the book for you?
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Vasily Grossman’s English translator (the man largely responsible for bringing him to the Anglo world) offers an explainer of sorts about the interconnected novels Stalingrad and Life and Fate.
@parisreview
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Welcome new followers! This feed is generally devoted to griping about Daphne du Maurier's literary reputation.
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Tonight at the Italian Cultural Institute of NY, a discussion of translation, Italian literature, and the ever-fascinating painter and novelist Dino Buzzati, with Lawrence Venuti. Spread the word!
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Towards the beginning of every NYRB Classic author bio: "She was a sickly and introverted child by her own account."
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Ginzburg's novellas Valentino and Sagittarius (coming this Sept.) delivering on the female rôle models.
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Finding it hard to concentrate on 19th-century Austrian writers this afternoon, for some reason.
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the haters won't let me use this photo on the cover of the forthcoming Malaparte bio (by Maurizio Serra, translated by Stephen Twilley)
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Frankly astonished to find out how much time you all spend thinking about The Empire.
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So many books from
@NYRB_Imprints
go on sale today. From the Classics series: Elsa Morante's Lies and Sorcery in its first unabridged English translation (by Jenny McPhee) and Lisa Tuttle's My Death, with an introduction by Amy Gentry.
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Pssst. Want to hear a secret?
Elsa Morante's Lies and Sorcery, (Jenny McPhee, trans.) went into its 2nd printing less than a month after it went on sale.
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Our *inclusive* Mother's Day special features plenty of books about dreadful mothers.
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It was long novelist Caroline Blackwood’s dream that her likeness be used to sell luxury bedding.
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Hot girls can’t get enough of the tormented Communist idealism of Andrey Platonov.
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Valentine’s Day may be over but there’s no wrong time to contemplate the entwined love and work lives of artists Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä. 💕
“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
Tove Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author
#ReadMoreWomen
#LGBTHistoryMonth
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MOVED TO
HOLLYWOOD
A favorite photo of Eve Babitz. Taken by a famous photographer, whose wrath we prefer not to attract for unauthorized posting.
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NYRB Classics designer Katy Homans stopped by the office the other day to visit the Classics tree!
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Friendly reminder that the NYRB Classics Book Club makes a great gift, especially if you’re the type to wait until the last moment to shop. January's selection is Leonora Carrington's Hearing Trumpet.
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Now looking over printers proofs of Michael Hofmann's new translation of Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz. Book coming your way in March.
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You all be comforted to know that our follower count has not been notably affected by the latest "follower" purge.
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If you're a writer who wants to have fun with your copyeditor, change a character's eye color every 50 pages or so (this works especially well in a book >500 pp.). Watch the edits become ever more tetchy...
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UK edition. Very handsome!
COVER REVEAL! A legendary cover design (by
@typeasimage
) for a legendary editor. Fifteen years in the writing, Edwin Frank's STRANGER THAN FICTION offers a survey of the key works that defined the twentieth century. Coming November 2024!
@vintagebooks
@CalligraphLit
@nyrbclassics
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Who wore it messier? The
@nybooks
editorial office or the NYRB Classics editor's office?
If someone ever criticises your tidiness, show them this, the New York Review of Books office.
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Reading Robert Glück's forthcoming memoir about AIDS and the loss of a former lover and suspect you will all be pissed off by it because you know in your hearts you'll never write like this.
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Oh Jesus.
(From Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe, out next month, with a new introduction by Colm Tóibín)
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A Marxist revolutionary novel that is also an unabashedly lesbian romance? Yes.
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Another day, another cover rejected by the social media overlords for salaciousness.
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Most of the mothers in the books we publish are very very bad mothers. The exception might be Stalingrad and Life and Fate. Grossman really loved mamas.
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Here is an example of a cover that was rejected. And again: not a joke.
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It feels wrong to promote books when so many are without power and heat throughout the country. Thoughts and prayers are mostly meaningless, but know you have ours, friends.
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Stop. Doom. Scrolling.
Start. Doom. Reading.
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Who says reader reviews don’t sell books? We have a report of a reader buying Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries based on this rave.
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We somehow have been tagged in a thread that contains a post in which the word "femtard" is used. Please follow us to brighter places. See pinned post for exact details.
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Watch the trailer for Butcher's Crossing, starring Nicolas Cage and Fred Hechinger, based on the novel by John Williams, opening in the US on October 20.
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How can I make it clear that I never ever want to see a P*nt*r*st search result?
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Let's just say that Françoise Gilot was not a fan of that famous umbrella photo. Shame it will be accompanying most of the appreciations of her life.
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Copies of Swann’s Way are selling like hot madeleines. Get a copy of James Grieve’s translation while the flash sale is on
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You’re right, let’s move on. Let’s return to people talking about why Stoner is not a good book, actually.
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The June selection for the NYRB Classics Book Club is Written on Water by Eileen Chang, (Andrew F. Jones & Nicole Huang, eds).
If you join the NYRB Classics Book Club by June 14, Written on Water will be your first selection.
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The season of disappointing book lists (ie ones on which we don't appear) is upon us!
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