We're only one week away from the Spotlight Series tour of NYRB Classics. Over 40 bloggers have signed up to review a book in the series. The posts will be aggregated on the Spotlight Series site (which hosts periodic virtual tours of offerings from small presses, worth following if you're looking for books off the beaten path).
"My knowledge of Elizabeth Hardwick is limited: I’ve read her 1974 collection Seduction and Betrayal, and I knew she was from Kentucky... However in reading this new collection being released in June of this year, I felt as if Elizabeth Hardwick knew me."—The Literary Gothamist on The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick. More here.
At Anecdotal Evidence, Patrick Kurp, argues for viewing Thoreau as a writer foremost, rather than as "an ecologist, 'environmentalist,' naturalist, anarchist, abolitionist or homespun philosopher." And at the blog Vertigo, Terry looks at Thoreau through Sebald-colored glasses. (Both posts recommended to us by Thoreau Journal editor, Damion Searls.)
Father and son Stellan and Alexander Skarsgard are to be the voices of father and son Moomintroll and Moominpappa in the upcoming film Moomin and the Comet Chase. Max von Sydow narrates.
Our friends at the Lexington, Kentucky Public Library are hosting an NYRB Classics reading group. This month's selection is Masanobu Fukuoka's One-Straw Revolution and next month they'll be reading A High Wind in Jamaica. The group's Goodreads page is here.
Richard Howe, whose project of photographing every street corner in Manhattan we've mentioned here before, wrote a post remembering the artist (and co-executor of James Shuyler's literary estate) Darragh Park, on the one-year anniversary of his death.
The Guardian profiles Vasily Grossman on the occasion of UK publication of his novel Everything Flows, and interviews Grossman's 80-year-old daughter, Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman.
The first three NYRB Classic ebooks—Stoner, Everything Flows, Wish Her Safe at Home—are now available at Amazon, Books on Board, Kobo, and elsewhere, and should be making their way to the various other ebook retailers shortly.
A dozen stories by Elizabeth Hardwick (1916 -- 2007), whose sharp eye and biting wit is evident throughout each, are gathered in this New York Review Books edition, with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, author of High Cotton, satiric novel about black (African-American) identity, and Sold and Gone: African-American Literature and U.S. Society.
Posted by: Book Publisher | December 31, 2010 at 05:53 PM
Wow, ebooks. How cool. I love your paper books so much though that it's hard to imagine migrating to electronic books for yours. And they all look so beautiful on the shelf. I'll look forward to following the blog tour. Lucky bloggers!
Posted by: Marie | May 10, 2010 at 07:20 PM