Notes from NYRB Classics
…And The Peregrine flies home this summer: 192 co-owner, Jack Macrae, J.A. Baker’s original editor, was the person who first brought this remarkable work to our attention.
Adam Foulds on The Peregrine, in The Independent.
So, do you have any literary summer solstice rituals?
For those in the NYC area, come out to hear translator Damion Searls talk about the Dutch author Nescio’s life and work at 192 Books tonight at 7 pm (info here). Nescio only wrote a few novella’s early in his life in 1910s, and then much later during the Nazi occupation of Holland with his story ‘Insula Dei.’ Amsterdam Stories is the first collection and translation of Nescio’s work into English. Think of a Dutch combination of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Salinger, and Kafka and you’re pretty close.
Upcoming readings and discussions in New York, Boston and the Bay Area
Wednesday, April 25th at 6:00 pm
Victor Serge: Remembering a Revolutionary
With Michael Taussig, Ross Poole, and McKenzie Wark
at The New School, Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Bldg, 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor
Sunday, May 6th at 1:00 pm
Co-sponsored with PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
A Place Out of Time: Gregor von Rezzori’s Bukovina Trilogy
with Michael Cunningham, Deborah Eisenberg, Daniel Kehlmann, and Edmund White; moderated by Edwin Frank.
Damion Searls will read from and discuss his English translation of Nescio’s Amsterdam Stories on both coasts in April and May
Tuesday, April 24th at 7:00 pm at 192 Books
Come and sip jenever and while listening to the words of one of Holland’s most beloved writers.
Tuesday, May 8th at 7:00 pm
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
with Peter Orner
Wednesday, May 9th at 7:00 pm
Co-sponsored by Books Inc and Palo Alto City Library
City of Palo Alto Library — Downtown Branch
Thursday, May 10th at 7:30 pm
Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, Berkeley
with Jeroen Dewulf, Director of Dutch Studies Program, UC-Berkeley
Wednesday, May 23rd
Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge at 7:00 pm
