February 2012
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January 2012
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Robert Walser's Berlin Stories
nyrbclassics: Today is the publication date for Robert Walser’s Berlin Stories, a collection of his early stories, with some later ones as well, set in Berlin where he followed his elder brother in 1905, translated by Susan Bernofsky and others including Christopher Middleton. We thought we’d share the first story in the book, titled “Good Morning, Giantess!”: It’s as if a giantess were...
Jan 30th
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Jan 27th
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“Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for...”
– -John Donne “Holy Sonnets XIV” Poems of John Donne. vol I. E. K. Chambers, ed. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896. 165.
Jan 26th
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“Not that I’ve anything against e-books and Kindles. Some day I’ll likely buy one...”
– Grant Buday, essay found at Old Paper
Jan 24th
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“Then I think of you in bed, your tongue half chocolate, half ocean, of the...”
– –Anne Sexton, Eighteen Days Without You.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 16th
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“Do you know what has hung upon me so heavily of late? In what you said about...”
– Boris Pasternak, from a letter to Marina Tsvetaeva in Letters, Summer 1926, 10 June 1926 (via proustitute)
Jan 16th
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December 2011
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“Well, I decided —I hope you won’t find this strange— to plant...”
– The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
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“I should have known when you started to kiss with your eyes closed that your...”
– Traci Brimhall, from Rookery (via proustitute)
Dec 16th
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Seattle Meet-Up
nyrbclassics: On Thursday, January 5th in downtown Seattle we will be hosting a New York Review Books meet-up. If you are a Seattle-area resident—or in Seattle, like us, for the MLA Conference—come by the Fireside Room at the Hotel Sorrento between 5:30 and 8:30 pm to meet fellow NYRB friends, fans, and staff and discuss everything books and NYRB. We’d love to see your non-digital faces.
Dec 15th
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“The sea: you watch it for a while, lose interest, and then, because there is...”
– Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Dec 15th
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“When it happens you don’t expect it. You don’t expect anything...”
– Opening lines from Our Share of Time by Yves Navarre, translated by Dominic Di Bernardi & Noelle Domke
Dec 3rd
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
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“If I were to kiss you here they’d call it an act of terrorism - so...”
– Hakim Bey (March 10, 2010, just to remember)
Nov 30th
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Nov 29th
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A Different Stripe: Happy Birthday Stefan Zweig →
nyrbclassics: Today in 1881 in Ancona, Italy, Stefan Zweig was born. Here’s André Aciman on Zweig from the introduction to Journey into the Past, which we published in 2010 (we will be publishing Confusion in April, 2012). The word that keeps coming back is fluent. Stefan Zweig was born fluent….
Nov 29th
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After your laughter like thunder After your skin like coffee and cream After it takes our bodies into the night After we’ve come to the extreme I want to lay down on your shoulder Just inside your arm I want to listen to your heart beat And your breathing on and on I want to lay down on your shoulder Surrender to your peace And go to sleep -excerpt from Sleep by Melissa Etheridge
Nov 28th
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