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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:11:53 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Vladimir Sorokin to appear at the PEN World Voices Festival:
Sara said, "Vladimir Sorokin, author of the recently published Ice Trilogy* (as well as of The Queue, also published by NYRB Classics) lives in Moscow, but this weekend, you can catch him in New York. He's participating in two events being held as part of..." more
Monday, April 25, 2011 12:07:38 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Monday Multimedia: Paul Auster reads Kabir:
Sara said, "The PEN American Center has posted audio of Paul Auster reading two poems by Kabir, translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's. The poems were originally published in PEN America 11: Make Believe. We've recently collected these poems..." more
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:03:58 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled More on L.J. Davis:
Sara said, "Since we last posted about the death of L.J. Davis, a couple of more pieces about the writer have surfaced. The first appeared in The Awl under the fabulous title, "The Most Flagrantly Tactless First-Rate Brooklyn Novelist." It's by..." more
Monday, April 18, 2011 4:21:52 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Hey, librarians. Hey, readers. Hey, Small Press!:
Sara said, "Has this happened to you? You walk into your library. You glance around the shelves filled with row after row of the same best sellers, but you're not interested. Maybe you even know the titles of a book or two you've been wanting to read...." more
Friday, April 15, 2011 4:51:19 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled NYRB Classics Ebooks: Who Knows Seven?*:
Sara said, "It's been a while since we offered a run-down of our ebook offerings (which can be bought from most major ebook retailers). We've published many more in the last six months. Here are seven of them, each with a representative passage: (See..." more
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:57:08 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled L.J. Davis, 1940–2011, a roundup:
Sara said, "It is with sadness that we report the death of novelist and journalist L.J. Davis, whose A Meaningful Life we were privileged to have published in 2009. "L. J. Davis was a remarkable writer with a caustic sensibility that was very own his..." more
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 9:26:31 AM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled "A Farewell to Tobacco"—from <i>W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse</i>:
Sara said, " Scent to match thy rich perfume Chemic art did ne'er presume; Through her quaint alembic strain, None so sovereign to the brain: Nature, that did in thee excel, Framed again no second smell. Roses, violets, but toys For the smaller sort..." more
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 3:11:47 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Translating Tove Jansson: Thomas Teal at Harvard Bookstore, April 8:
Sara said, " Translating the novels of Tove Jansson:A talk by Thomas Teal at Harvard BookstoreApril 8, 2011 — 3:00 p.m. As part of Harvard Bookstore’s Friday Forum series, Thomas Teal, translator of Tove Jansson’s novels The Summer Book, The..." more
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 3:27:04 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Gillian Rose offers some acting advice to Jennifer Garner:
Sara said, " In one of the most bizarre casting decisions in recent memory, actress Jennifer Garner is, according to the Hollywood insider website deadline.com, to play Miss Marple in the forthcoming Disney reworking of the much-loved TV series based..." more
Monday, April 4, 2011 6:16:58 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Robert Walser translators disuss the author, dine on bratwurst:
Sara said, "A lunch date with NYRB Classics (and Robert Walser) Walser cover collage snagged from The Bridge, co-sponsor of the event Wednesday, April 6th at 1PMSwiss Institute 495 Broadway, 3rd FloorNew York City(212) 925-2035Join NYRB Classics editor Edwin..." more
Monday, March 28, 2011 4:41:35 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Multimedia Monday: Sophia Jansson and Thomas Teal on Tove Jansson, Larry Korn on The One-Straw Revolution:
Sara said, "Sophia Jansson (Tove Jansson's niece and the chairman of Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd) and Thomas Teal (translator of several of Jansson's adult novels) talked with Leonard Lopate last week about Jansson's life and work, and the recent..." more
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:54:10 AM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled "Pet cats, he believed, did nothing but behave badly.":
Sara said, " Hotel Cat Tom isn't happy about Jenny Linsky, Edward, and Checkers ending up in his hotel. The blood of the hotel cat boiled.... "What a guest!" thought Tom. He's probably a spoiled pet accompanying his..." more
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 3:49:23 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled "Except that it robs you of who you are, / What can you say about speech?," a poem by Kabir:
Sara said, "The most recent issue of The New York Review of Books offers a preview of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's translations of selected Kabir poems. Except that it robs you of who you are, What can you say about speech? Inconceivable to live without And..." more
Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:32:04 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled A Celebration of Tove Jansson, March 21:
Sara said, "NYRB Classics and Scandinavia House invite you to an evening in celebration of the novels of Tove Jansson, Monday, March, 21st, 2011 at 6:30 PM. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended: call 212.847.9740 or email..." more
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 4:14:24 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Guest post: An Interview with <i>The True Deceiver</i>:
Sara said, "Today we are very lucky to have Kenny Brechner, of DDG Booksellers in Farmington, Maine (an independent shop that is surely among the treasures of the state), offering up a guest post. Kenny somehow managed to score an interview with that fierce..." more
Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:24:20 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled The two Harriet Daimlers (includes mild, cartoon nudity):
Sara said, "All day, the blogger at Bella's Bookshelves has been tweeting about her pleasure in reading After Claude by Iris Owens. Which got us thinking that the book's heroine, Harriet Daimler, with her take-no-prisoners strategy and her..." more
Monday, February 14, 2011 4:21:37 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Multimedia Monday: Adam Haslett on Patrick Leigh Fermor, Werner Herzog as Roger Ebert on My Dog Tulip:
Sara said, "Adam Haslett talked to NPR's All Things Considered about Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time to Keep Silence late last week. The segment was part of the "You Must Read This" series. It replicates in style and rhythm the very..." more
Friday, January 28, 2011 3:44:48 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled "As far back as anyone could remember, there hadn’t been this much snow.":
Sara said, " © Tove Jansson (original cover art for The True Deceiver) It had been snowing along the coast for a month. As far back as anyone could remember, there hadn’t been this much snow, this steady snow piling up against doors and windows and weighing..." more
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 3:08:04 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Pinocchio, a real girl?:
Sara said, " E.M. Keeler reads Geoffrey Brock's translation of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio (aka The Real Pinocchio) and is surprised by what she finds there: "The Pinocchio that traipses around Collodi’s story is a real brat. Not only does he..." more
Friday, January 14, 2011 3:45:18 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Final 2010 staff favorites:
Sara said, "Bob GillA Christmas Card(Designed to send in January)From Bob Gill: Illustration And here's one last look back at 2010, from Edwin Frank, the editorial director of the series. We figure if the B&N Review can post Robert Christgau's..." more
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 4:31:07 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled 2010 Staff Favorites:
Sara said, "In which we recommend our favorite NYRB Classics read over the past year and take a moment to plug something entirely unrelated to the series (an idea shamelessly lifted from the "endorsement" segment of Slate's Culture..." more
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:31:15 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Rebecca's West's Christmas:
Sara said, "After the drear of the last post (horses starving, mothers starving, patriotic bears liquidating kulaks) we thought we might bring you something more befitting the holiday season. Herewith an excerpt from Rebecca West's novel The Fountain..." more
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:01:06 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled The illustrated Platonov, drawings by Kirill Sokolov:
Sara said, "The Russian artist Kirill Sokolov (1930–2004) produced a number of illustrations to Andrey Platonov's novel The Foundation Pit. Many of these—two 1991 drypoints and nine 2000 drawings lifted and printed from wax crayon..." more
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 11:34:17 AM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled Jules Renard's Bestiary:
Sara said, "If you follow us on Twitter, you might notice that we couldn't help posting bits from Jules Renard's charming and inventive collection of observations of the natural world, Histoires Naturelles or Nature Stories. They were just too..." more
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 5:58:14 PM
Sara Kramer wrote a blog post titled A Different Stripe is Moving!:
Sara said, "From now on if you want to find us, please visit http://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/ "