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About meI'm an editor at NYRB Classics—which explains why I've uploaded every book we publish to my library. People often ask how we find out about the books for the Classics series. Would you be surprised to know that the answer is that we love to hear about "lost" books from librarians, bookstore staff, and passionate readers? We're ready to listen to you, so if you have a suggestion for a book let me know (please note that it must be out of print—Amazon is very helpful in determining this). I hope that LibaryThing can be a forum for disccusing the books in our series with the people who make the series possible.
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P.S. I will most definitely be recommending titles. You'll be sorry you asked!
posted by Makifat at 11:42 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2009
posted by urania1 at 10:54 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2009
"A Spell for Old Bones" are in print. I have read and reread both of them many times. If they are out hope you will be able to bring them to your readers.
posted by Esta1923 at 6:57 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2009
Community college libraries serve extraordinary diverse populations, so I always purchase whatever great books I encounter and always assume there will be a reader for the book! It makes me very happy to add these books to the library. We also share our book collections with other City University libraries, and patrons come from those colleges to check our books out.
can't wait to read The Old Man & Me!
Susan thomas
posted by BMCCReads at 6:47 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2009
I've had a lot of pleasure exploring the NYRB classics backlist over the past few years. The books themselves are so attractively produced I find myself looking at the colour of the spine when deciding which one to buy next!
I've been looking to buy the Joyce Cary trilogy, but it seems that it is out of print and /or not available in the new design format. 'To be a pilgrim', alone of all the NYRB books, does not seem to have been given a 'new' cover. Is the trilogy to be discontinued?
I was also wondering when The Winners will be back in stock with new cover? - I can see you've just added it to your library.
As far as title suggestions go, Odon von Horvath is a writer still well-known in central Europe, who has almost completely disappeared in English. 'Godless youth', which I understand is read by most German high school-children, is a powerful and stylish book, about ethics, convictions and resistance in National socialist Germany.
Best regards,
Paul
posted by PaulDalton at 9:18 am (EST) on Jun 8, 2009
Have you noticed that I am a HUGE fan of your books? I was the marketing director at Schwartz Bookshops in Milwaukee for 20 years until we closed at the end of March.
I have a shelf at home that is only your books. Next I will be reading Post-Office Girl, which I expect might be more my book than A Meaningful Life.
But my favorite so far is Stone. We sold a hundreds of copies after the owner of our shop and I both read it and recommended it. I will send you my rec for that. I much prefer it over the tidbit I wrote for A Meaningful Life.
alphaorder / Nancy
PS I sent you a friend invite. I must admit it is hard transitioning out of the book world. It is really a special place.
posted by alphaorder at 11:27 am (EST) on May 6, 2009
How did you become an editor at NYRB Classics? That seems to me to be the perfect job.
posted by inaudible at 11:05 am (EST) on Apr 19, 2009
We are all quite distressed to discover nary a NYRB in the January Early Reviewers list. We so wanted to fight over who might get the copy. I must say the ER list is less than desirable this month. Just because the economy has headed to the Antarctica does not mean the publishing industry must follow suit. Haven't book publishers discovered booklovers' not so secret secret? We buy books before food. When I am a street person, I plan to push around multiple shopping carts full of books.
posted by urania1 at 11:36 am (EST) on Jan 12, 2009
e are all quite distressed to discover nary a NYRB in the January Early Reviewers list. We so wanted to fight over who might get the copy. I must say the list is less than desirable this month. Just because the economy is heading to the Antarctica does not mean the publishing industry must follow suit. Haven't book publishers discovered booklovers' not so secret secret? We buy books before food. When I am a street person, I plan to push around multiple shopping carts full of books.
posted by urania1 at 11:35 am (EST) on Jan 12, 2009
I noticed we have a book in common - "Good Times (Every Kid's Book Of Things To Do). I was just wondering how long you've had this book for? My mom gave it to me when I was 8 or 9 years old (1978/79) and to this day I know how to fold a box out of paper by heart!
Just wanted to know if you had as much fun with this book as I did.
posted by DotDammit at 6:16 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2008
Also, I would like to say I am a HUGE fan of NYRB Classics!
posted by kidsilkhaze at 11:51 am (EST) on Aug 31, 2008
Kirsty
posted by otherstories at 7:39 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2008
posted by dbvisel at 3:17 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2008
I haven't read it yet, but Moravia's Woman of Rome is sitting on the shelf - I found it in a used bookstore. It looks like it's not available on Amazon or other online stores, and I know you guys already publish a couple of Moravias now.
posted by DieFledermaus at 11:18 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2008
Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I really enjoy reading your blog! My university bookstore was actually having a sale on NYRBs so I bought six - including Life and Fate, which had been on the to buy list for a while now - and might have to go back for more. I noticed that you'll be publishing some books by Peter Handke in the fall - what do you think of his work? I haven't read anything by him, but his bio on Wikipedia sounded interesting (co-wrote Wings of Desire, one of my favorite films)
posted by DieFledermaus at 10:15 pm (EST) on Jun 29, 2008
I read "House of Liars" in Italian, many many years ago, and fell in love with it. I have loved Elsa Morante ever since, to me she is the greatest Italian female writer of all times. What I liked about the book was, beside the beautiful use of the language (I hope it did not get lost in translation), and her skill with words, the extraordinary fact that the book held me captive until the end, and even after, in spite of the fact the plot is very minimal. I will have to re-read it, perhaps in English, to see if I still feel the same about it.
I also recommend "Arturo's Island", another splendid book she wrote.
I will be looking forward to your comments. And, by the way, any chance you might republish "House of Liars"? I would buy it immediately!
:-))
posted by aluvalibri at 9:41 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2008
Cheers, Maren
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posted by Marensr at 4:09 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2008
Once I buy Sciascia's book on the Moro Affair, will that be all I can find of his work in English? Are there other titles in his backlist you will be publishing eventually? Please say "si."
My reccomendations: Henry de Montherlant's THE BACHELORS, Digby Anderson's THE SPECTATOR BOOK OF IMPERATIVE COOKING, and you will have to commission an English translation, but believe me, it's great, and I didn't even have any Kathleen Ferrier CDs before I bought it at the French section of the Strand - LA VOIX DE KATHLEEN FERRIER by Benoît Mailliet Le Penven.
posted by Ortolan at 5:34 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2008
Hello, thanks for the interest! You know, I did once suggest a book to the NYRB Classics, Max Blecher's Aventures dans l'irréalité immédiate (the title of the French translation, he was Romanian). I'm still hoping to see it receive due attention in English some day...
posted by LolaWalser at 6:38 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2008
Elizabeth Cullinan joins company with other important Irish American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Brendan Gill, and James T. Farrell. She was born in 1933 to Irish parents and raised in New York City where she attended Catholic schools and, later, Marymount College in Manhattan. Many of her early experiences as an Irish American Catholic inform her writing. In 1955, Cullinan began working for New Yorker magazine as a secretary while at the same time launching her literary career. Her early stories were published in the New Yorker; these were later collected in The Time of Adam (1971). During the 1960s, Cullinan lived for several years in Ireland. Throughout the 1960s–1970s, she continued to publish stories in the New Yorker as well as in other magazines. In 1970, her first novel, House of Gold, appeared; it was the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Novel for that year. In 1977, Cullinan became a faculty member at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she taught for one year. A second collection of short stories, Yellow Roses, was published that year. Cullinan’s second novel, A Change of Season, a story of an Irish American woman’s sojourn in Dublin, appeared in 1982.
Elizabeth Cullinan’s most important work, House of Gold, develops the themes that are found throughout the author’s canon. These include the domineering Irish American matriarch, the dutiful daughter, and the strong influence of ritual Catholicism on the Irish American family. Catholic themes and symbols abound in Cullinan’s works and are interconnected, lending her writings a sense of continuity.
I would love to one day see her work in an NYRB edition. I've read all of her books over the past two years and in my own humble opinion, they more than stand the test of time.
Slainte!
Sean
posted by SeanLong at 8:16 am (EST) on Jun 2, 2008