We're 10! Come celebrate with us at a variety of readings, discussions, and just plain parties taking place in both the US and the UK. This list also includes a few special readings with poet, translator, and children's book writer Alastair Reid in honor of the reprint of his collaboration with Ben Shahn, Ounce Dice Trice.
Thursday September 17, 7 pm
Idlewild Books hosts a NYRB Classics 10th anniversary party and launches the Idlewild NYRB Classics book club
Sunday, September 20, 3 pm
Word Bookstore in Brooklyn, Alastair Reid reads from Ounce Dice Trice
Monday, September 21, 7 pm
Idlewild Books hosts a reading by Tete-Michel Kpomassie, author of An African in Greenland
Thursday, September 24, 6 pm
Books of Wonder Alastair Reid reads from Ounce Dice Trice
Monday, October 5, 7 pm,
McNally Jackson, Jhumpa Lahiri reads from The Cost of Living: The Early and Uncollected Fiction of Mavis Gallant
Tuesday, October 6, 7 pm
Idlewild Books, launch party for the first graphic novel published by NYRB, Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati, featuring translator Marina Harss
Tuesday, October 13, 7 pm
London Review Bookshop, John Banville and John Gray discuss the work of Georges Simenon
Wednesday, October 14, 6: 30 pm
Heffers (Cambridge, England) NYRB 10th anniversary event with Andrew O'Hagan, Pankaj Mishra, Mary Beard
Tuesday, October 20, 7 pm
Harvard Bookstore, NYRB Classics 10th anniversary event and Winedown with series editor, Edwin Frank
Thursday, October 29
NY Institute of the Humanities, New School Tishman Auditorium with Fred Wiseman, Walter Murch, Timothy Snyder, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Chris Hedges discusssing the war writings of Curzio Malaparte and Vasily Grossman
Thursday, November 5
NYPL Cullman Center NYRB Classics event with Cullman Center fellows Esther Allen, Wendy Lesser, Greil Marcus, Jean Strouse
November tbd
NYRB Classics celebrates ten years of publishing classics and the opening of Greenlight Books in Brooklyn
Please note that details are subject to change. Keep checking this site for updates on the listings above.
So many choices! I'm going to try to catch one of the Manhattan events.
Posted by: iamtheangel.com | September 21, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Happy anniversary! The tenth anniversary gift is.. um, books, right?
Posted by: Matthew | September 16, 2009 at 03:32 PM