Notes from NYRB Classics
On Monday, May 6th at 7 PM, writers Lev Grossman, Nathaniel Adams, and Jen Vafidis will discuss Kingsley Amis’ newly reissued novels, the alternate history The Alteration and the ghost story The Green Man at the Half King. Co-sponsored with Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
Full details here.
“Well, you know. His wife was chased by an elephant.”
“No.”
“How extraordinary.”
“Yes. it was too awful. They were watching the elephants, when she simply fell down. The elephant ran over and knelt on her. she was in the hospital for months.”
“No.”
“How extraordinary.”
“Quite different from anything she ever got from Roger, I expect.”
Renata Adler reading last night, perhaps from this, one of her favorite passages from Speedboat, at the Center for Fiction. Photograph via the twitter feed of the N+1 film supplement.
To celebrate the re-release of two books by iconic British author Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim and The Old Devils, New York Review Books Classics and Vol. 1 Brooklyn present an evening dedicated to his life and work. Rosie Schaap (New York Times Magazine Drink writer and author of the forthcoming book Drinking With Men), Parul Sehgal (Editor at the New York Times Book Review) and Maud Newton (Writer and critic) will all share their thoughts on Mr. Amis. And since no celebration of the life and work of Mr. Amis is truly complete without cocktails, Brooklyn Gin will be on hand to serve gin and tonics.
Housingworks Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street,
New York, NY
The first is today (October 3, 2012) at the Instituto Cervantes in New York. Details.
And the next is October 11th at Baruch Colleage (take note: it’s at 12:30 in the afternoon). Details.
It’s the Brooklyn Book Festival!
Come to our reading, co-sponsored with Issue Project Room, tonight.
And on Sunday stop by our booth (#43) at the festival to get deals on books and a special subscription rate for The New York Review of Books.
Raise a Glass to Kingsley Amis with us on October 11th.
To celebrate the re-release of two books by iconic British author Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim and The Old Devils, New York Review of Books Classics and Vol. 1 Brooklyn present an evening dedicated to his life and work.
Rosie Schaap (New York Times Magazine “Drink” writer and author of the forthcoming book Drinking With Men), Parul Sehgal (Editor at the New York Times Book Review) and Maud Newton (writer and critic) will all share their thoughts on Mr. Amis. And since no celebration of the life and work of Mr. Amis is truly complete without cocktails, Brooklyn Gin will be on hand to serve gin and tonics. (via October 11th: Raise a Glass to Kingsley Amis with Vol. 1 Brooklyn, NYRB Classics and Brooklyn Gin | Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
Here! Thursday, October 11, lots of awesome!
The dictator novel in the age of the Arab Spring
Translator Peter Bush discusses translating Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s Tryant Banderas, a work often considered untranslatable.
Thursday, October 11th – 12:30PM
Modern Language Conference Room; 6-210 Baruch Vertical Campus
55 Lexington Ave. (25th and Lex.)
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
NYRB Classics is delighted to announce December events in New York City that will spotlight the Egyptian novelist Albert Cossery, as well as the recent re-issue of Jean Strouse’s biography of Alice James.
December 6, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Word Bookstore
A panel discussion on Albert Cossery, famous for his characteristically witty, anarchistic depictions of the Middle East’s political and cultural pitfalls. The panelists are Robyn Creswell, poetry editor of The Paris Review, Anna Moschovakis, translator of Cossery’s The Jokers, and Anna Della Subin, associate editor of Bidoun. The moderator will be Alyson Waters, who has introduced and revised the translation of Proud Beggars and translated Colors of Infamy (recently published by New Directions). Free and open to the public.
December 7, 2011 at 7 p.m.
The New York Public
Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, will speak with Jean Strouse about the James family on the occasion of the re-issue of Strouse’s Bancroft Prize-winning biography, Alice James. For more information, click here.
Come duke out the vexing question of massculture, middlebrow culture, and high culture with John Summers (editor of the soon-to-be-revived journal The Baffler) and his decidedly high-culture guests in Cambridge, Chicago and DC.
Are you a snob or a democrat? Are you a democratic snob? Find out all this and more at the events below!
October 14th:
J.C. Gabel and John Summers at Stop Smiling Storefront, Chicago
October 20th:
Louis Menand and John Summers at Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge
October 22nd:
Andrew Ferguson, Chris Lehmann, and John Summers at Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington DC
If you are, make sure to say hello to us at booth #3435.
Here is a simple way to remember that number.
3435 = 33 + 44 + 33 + 55
