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September 2011
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Bidoun excerpts The Colors of Infamy, throws...
Bidoun, a magazine of Middle Eastern arts and culture, included an excerpt of Franco-Egyptian writer Albert Cossery’s novel, The Colors of Infamy (forthcoming from New Directions in November), in their latest Cairo focused issue. Bidoun posted the excerpt here.
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Cossery has had a resurgence of interest in the last few years with new translations of his work (A Splendid...
Two New Pearls
Victor Pelevin
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids
Translated by Andrew Bromfield
112 pages, $9.95 US / $11.50 CAN
Nikolai Gogol
The Night Before Christmas
Translated by Constance Garnett
80 pages, $9.95 US / $11.50 CAN
COLLECT THEM ALL!
August 2011
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New Books!
We’re kicking off Fall with eight new publications!
Helen Dewitt
Lightning Rods
$24.95 US / $29.00 CAN
Jacket by Steve Attardo for Rodrigo Corral Design
“All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.” Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then he fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat hundreds of pieces of homemade pie, served up by...
New Directions publishes "Good Offices" by Evelio...
Good Offices is the second novel by Evelio Rosero (after The Armies, 2009) to be published by New Directions. It’s also the first to be translated by Anne McLean in collaboration with Anne Milsom.
In Good Offices, we are released into the world of Tancredo, a hunchback who has a deep fear of becoming an animal. Tancredo, the sexton’s goddaughter...
By Word of Mouth
Next month, New Directions will publish a collection of William Carlos Williams’s translations of Spanish and Latin American Poets. By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish 1916–1919 has been compiled and edited by translator and Williams’ scholar Jonathan Cohen. Included in this bilingual edition are the giants—Neruda, Paz, and Parra—as well as many lesser-known poets such as Alfonso...
July 2011
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ND EXCLUSIVE -- Kazuko Shiraishi: "Sea, Land,...
Soon after the Japanese tsunami disaster occurred on March 11, poet Kazuko Shiraishi journeyed to one of the worst struck cities, Iwanuma. She wrote a poem in response to the devastation she saw before her. The original poem in Japanese was published in the June issue of Gendaishi Techoo in Japan. New Directions is proud to present the translation of Kazuko Shiraishi’s “Sea, Land,...
Report from New Directions 75th Anniversary...
Last night we celebrated 75 years of publishing (with a special focus on our poets) with a reading, exhibit of items from our archive, and of course a grand reception, at Poets House. It was packed with ND enthusiasts, fans, and friends. In fact, so many people came, many could not get in the main room where the reading was being held. Fortunately, Poets House was prepared for such a occurrence...
Spotted at BookHampton in Sag Harbor
On a recent excursion to BookHampton in Sag Harbor with Bidoun writer and editor Anna Della Subin, we came across a table that featured many of our titles Animalinside, Your Face Tomorrow: Vol III, Between Parentheses, as well as a non-ND title by ND poet, translator, and scholar Peter Cole: Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (a staff favorite here at ND), and Blake...
June 2011
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Susan Bernofsky/Ugly Duckling/Zinc Bar
Translator and author Susan Bernofsky will be participating at a Zinc Bar reading this Sunday hosted by the great Ugly Duckling Presse. Other participants include Laura Soloman and Jeannine Marie Pitas.
Ugly Duckling recently published the chapbook False Friends by German poet Uljana Wolf, translated by Ms. Bernofsky. She will be reading from this chapbook, as well as from her translations...
Stonecutter Journal
Former ND editorial assistants Katie Raissian and Anna Della Subin have published the inaugural issue of their art and literature journal, Stonecutter. This handsome french-flapped publication includes a retelling of an Irish fable by Eliot Weinberger and a long poem, “Tide Table,” from ND poetry editor Jeffrey Yang, among other terrific work included.
Stonecutter will be hosting...
Five new books now available!
Clockwise from upper-left
César Aira, The Seamstress and the Wind — Novella. Translated from the Spanish by Rosalie Knecht. $12.95 US / $15.00 CAN
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All — Manifesto. Facsimile of the 1923 edition with a NEW Introduction by C.D. Wright. $12.95 US / $15.00 CAN
Joseph Roth, The Leviathan — Novella. A New Directions Pearl. Translated from...
Three Percent (and New Directions) Podcast
About a month ago, Three Percent Blog began a weekly literary news podcast. Co-hosted by Chad Post, Editor-in-Chief of Open Letter Books and Tom Roberge, Publicity Director of New Directions, the podcast aims to “keep things irreverent, informed, and funny” all while “keeping you up to date on the international literary world. Maybe.”
The podcast can be found on...
May 2011
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Two upcoming Bolaño events
This June, New Directions will be celebrating our publication of Roberto Bolaño’s Between Parentheses, a collection of essays, lectures, talks, and interviews with two events.
The first event will be held on June 13 at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The evening’s participants will include New Directions Publisher Barbara Epler, translator Natasha Wimmer, novelist Francisco...
ND books mentioned in Jeffrey Eugenides' new novel... →
A fond ND insert in the first paragraph of Jeffrey Eugenides’ forthcoming book The Marriage Plot…
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3 for the price of 2: Pound, Paz, Duncan and more
All these ND poetry titles are currently 3 for the price of two - grab them before our spring poetry sale ends! Details are available here.
Big Bridge publishes letters of McClure and...
Big Bridge has published The Flame is Ours: The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure 1961–1978. Large portions of it can be read on the big bridge website, where it includes photographs and notations. Poet Michael McClure is one of the pre-eminant beat-era poets and is currently published by New Directions (check out his latest collection, Mysteriosos). Stan Brakhage is regarded as one...
Brand New Lawrence Ferlinghetti - What is Poetry?
In the ND office today, we are coveting Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s What Is Poetry?, a new collection of aphorisms in free verse just published this April by Anansi Press in Canada. What is Poetry? is a gorgeous limited edition hardcover with full-color artwork by acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker Frederic Amat, so Ferlinghetti fans should check this out quick. You can buy the book...
Frederic Tuten wins prize, plans reading of Mao
Federic Tuten has been given the Pushcart Prize for his story, “The Veranda,” first published in Conjunctions: 54, Shadow Selves (Spring 2010). The story will appear in Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses (November 2011).
New Directions publishes Tuten’s The Adventures of Mao on the Long March. A reading of Mao in its entirety is being planned by New Directions...
True Friends: Susan Bernofsky and Uljana Wolf team...
Last week I attended the Best Translated Book of the Year Award ceremony, for which Susan Bernofsky’s translation of Visitation was nominated in the fiction category. While it didn’t win (congratulations to Tove Jansson and Thomas Teal for The True Deceiver!) I did get to chat with Susan, and to meet the lovely Uljana Wolf, a young German poet with whom Susan has just collaborated on...
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Regina Ullman's "The Mouse" in Two Lines Online
Two Lines Online, the online literary supplement to the Two Lines journal published annually by the Center for the Art of Translation, recently ran the story “The Mouse” by Modernist Swiss writer Regina Ullman. Coinciding with that is an introduction to Ullman’s work by the translator, Kurt Beals. A collection of Regina Ullman’s short prose translated by Beals is...
WatchLast Tuesday, MoMA Design curated a show of the work of Alvin Lustig guided by his widow Elaine Lustig-Cohen to celebrate the Chronicle Books publication of Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig co-authored by Steven Heller. Mr. Heller was in attendance and gave a rapt account of the show for Imprint Magazine. The show was divided into two parts, architectural and cover designs. ...
April 2011
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Portrait of Chuang Hua
Author of Crossings, “Asian America’s first modernist novel (Amy Ling),” published in 1968. Crossings is Chuang Hua’s only known written work. She passed away in 2000.
Four new books
Clockwise from lower-left:
Mu Xin, An Empty Room, Stories. Translated from the Chinese by Toming Jun Liu. $13.95 US/$16.50 CAN. ISBN: 978-0-8112-1922-8
Murial Spark, Curriculum Vitae, Memoir. $14.95 US/$17.50 CAN. ISBN: 978-0-8112-1923-5
Michael Palmer, Thread, Poetry $15.95 US/$18.50 CAN. ISBN: 978-0-8112-1921-1
Enrique Vila-Matas, Never Any End to Paris, Novel. Translated from the...
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Javier Marías’ new 408 page novel Los Enamoramientos (The Flirtations, The Infatuated, The Infatuations, Fallings in Love (ahh, the challenge of translation)) will be published in Spain on July 30. Buzz for the book has been mounting, and its being hailed as the next A Heart So White.
According to Conversational Reading, “[Los Enamoramientos] is 400 pages in Spanish, and Marías...
ND Tote Bags Now Available!
New Directions now has tote bags for sale! Check them out w/specs below:
Specs:
Material: 600 Denier Polyester
Black
Double-Sided
Locally made by Ray Gun Printing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Size: approx. 15x16. (to compare: standard totes are around 13x14)
Price: $10 (plus $2.50 s/h if ordered from the office)
N.D. and the Best Translated Book Awards
This week, we’ve been celebrating the shortlisting of three of our translated titles in the 2011 Best Translated Book Awards, presented by Three Percent. In the fiction category, Katherine Silver’s translation of The Literary Conference by César Aira has been shortlisted, as has Susan Bernofsky’s translation of Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck, and in the poetry category, Henry...
March 2011
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Pearl love from Book Court
This morning I found in my inbox an email from the Molly Auerbach, the manager of Book Court bookstore in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Molly and I had met at AWP where her and I discussed our Pearl Series and how she was reacting to them as a bookseller. I expressed my desire to see them displayed face out as a series on bookshelves, perhaps with other publisher’s small book series (i.e....
Now available: Birds, Beasts, and Seas
Edited by New Directions Poetry Editor Jeffrey Yang, this new collection showcases the best nature poetry from over one hundred and forty ND poets. Birds, Beasts, and Seas spans centuries and continents, and traces poetry’s ever-changing relationship with the natural world. Drawing on works published throughout ND’s illustrious seventy-five year history, these poems comes from...
Two forthcoming Pearls
Slated for October 2011 (Design by Rodrigo Corral)
Postcard from the Granada Poetry Festival
Last week, I and roughly one hundred other poets from around the world converged on sunny Granada, Nicaragua, for the seventh annual Granada International Poetry Festival - a week of poetry, translations, sun, volcanoes, copious cuba libres, monkeys, street music, and more poetry. Among the guests of the festival were the ND poets Ernesto Cardenal and Forrest Gander, as well as Sujata...
February 2011
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The Splendid Albert Cossery
I can’t rave enough about Albert Cossery. A review in Three Percent of The Jokers (NYRB) said it for me: “Albert Cossery is the best dead writer I’ve discovered this year.” New Directions published A Splendid Conspiracy this year, which is up for the Three Percent 2011 Best Translated Books Award. I hate to play favorites—some other excellent New Directions books are also in the running—but I have...
Book (15) Title Science (1)
New Directions authors have written books with the widest variety of subject matter, voices, themes, and styles imaginable. Within all the variation, however, is a universality that makes each book, no matter how experimental, feel at least a little familiar. This is best exemplified by the titles of ND books: looking through our catalog I was struck by how some words appeared over and over again....
January 2011
7 posts
The Skating Rink
New Directions is releasing Roberto Bolaño’s The Skating Rink in paperback! I have been a very big fan of Bolaño for a while now, and I would say that The Skating Rink is probably one of my favorites among his shorter novels, if not my favorite (it’s neck and neck w/ Nazi Literatures).
Given that Bolaño said he would have been a homicide detective if he hadn’t been a writer,...
Snowman on the New Directions balcony…