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A Different Stripe is Moving!

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Posted May 17, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Vladimir Sorokin to appear at the PEN World Voices Festival

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... Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Monday Multimedia: Paul Auster reads Kabir

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 (in slightly different versions),... Continue reading

Posted Apr 25, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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More on L.J. Davis

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 Brooklynite... Continue reading

Posted Apr 20, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Hey, librarians. Hey, readers. Hey, Small Press!

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... Continue reading

Posted Apr 18, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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NYRB Classics Ebooks: Who Knows Seven?*

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... Continue reading

Posted Apr 15, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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L.J. Davis, 1940–2011, a roundup

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... Continue reading

Posted Apr 13, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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"A Farewell to Tobacco"—from W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse

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... Continue reading

Posted Apr 12, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Apr 11, 2011

Translating Tove Jansson: Thomas Teal at Harvard Bookstore, April 8

Translating the novels of Tove Jansson: A talk by Thomas Teal at Harvard Bookstore April 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 True... Continue reading

Posted Apr 6, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Gillian Rose offers some acting advice to Jennifer Garner

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 on Agatha Christie’s... Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Robert Walser translators disuss the author, dine on bratwurst

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 1PM Swiss Institute 495 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York City (212) 925-2035 Join NYRB Classics editor... Continue reading

Posted Apr 4, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Multimedia Monday: Sophia Jansson and Thomas Teal on Tove Jansson, Larry Korn on The One-Straw Revolution

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 publication of Fair... Continue reading

Posted Mar 28, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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"Pet cats, he believed, did nothing but behave badly."

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 master on a pleasant little... Continue reading

Posted Mar 23, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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"Except that it robs you of who you are, / What can you say about speech?," a poem by Kabir

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... Continue reading

Posted Mar 22, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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A Celebration of Tove Jansson, March 21

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... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Guest post: An Interview with The True Deceiver

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... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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The two Harriet Daimlers (includes mild, cartoon nudity)

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 viper-tongue, might make a... Continue reading

Posted Feb 17, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Multimedia Monday: Adam Haslett on Patrick Leigh Fermor, Werner Herzog as Roger Ebert on My Dog Tulip

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 experience... Continue reading

Posted Feb 14, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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"As far back as anyone could remember, there hadn’t been this much snow."

© 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... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Pinocchio, a real girl?

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 lie and skip... Continue reading

Posted Jan 25, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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Final 2010 staff favorites

Bob Gill A 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... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2011 at A Different Stripe

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2010 Staff Favorites

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 Gabfest). Stephen Twilley Pick:... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2010 at A Different Stripe

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Dec 21, 2010

Rebecca's West's Christmas

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 Overflows, as sweetly Christmasy... Continue reading

Posted Dec 17, 2010 at A Different Stripe

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