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Nicole Krauss

Favorite ND Books


I am forever indebted to New Directions for introducing me to so many of my favorite writers. Life without them now seems unimaginable.

 

— Nicole Krauss


Microscripts

Microscripts
I Served the King of England

I Served the King of England
The Christ of Fish

The Christ of Fish
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
By Night in Chile

By Night in Chile
The Old Child & Other Tales

The Old Child & Other Tales
Bartleby & Co.

Bartleby & Co.
S. S. Proleterka

S. S. Proleterka
The Melancholy of Resistance

The Melancholy of Resistance
The Rings of Saturn

The Rings of Saturn
Omon Ra

Omon Ra
The Emigrants

The Emigrants

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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."