Now That it's Now The New Directions Blog
Now That it's Now The New Directions Blog
And, per usual, this sort of language is unavoidable: "Lispector has written a novel in which every word—like a mythical tail-eating snake—quietly consumes itself." Read it on their blog.
Critic Jeremy Lybarger has written an incredibly well-informed review of Ibrahim's autobiographical That Smell. Read it here.
Calling Tyspkin "arguably the most important unsung Jewish writer of the twentieth century," the Jewish Book Council reviews The Bridge Over the Neroch & Other Works. Read it here.
Bookslut's Madeleine Monson-Rosen offers some cultural context in her review of Astragal.
June 2013 News from New Directions
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Both the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Magazine discuss an event — that featured ND publisher Barbara Epler — titled "The Making of the Great Bolaño: The Man and the Myth."
Colin Torre reviews The Bridge Over the Neroch & Other Works. Read it here.
Read the captivating interview here, and if you missed the review in question, head over to Bookforum to have a look.
Brian Hurley takes a look at the collaborative effort by Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger. Read it here.
Yet another in-depth look at Ibrahim's novel and the context in which it was written, this one at The Daily Beast.
Head over to Slate to read the entirety of Patti Smith's wonderful introduction to Albertine Sarrazin's Asrtagal.
ND editor Michael Barron interviewed Elaine Lustig for Bomb's blog. Read it here.
Writing for Bookforum, Elizabeth Schambelan discusses Albertine Sarrazin and her novel Astragal. Read it here.
May 2013 News from New Directions
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Writing for the Daily Beast, novelist Nathaniel Rich says that Miss Lonelyhearts "has never felt more alive than today." Read his entire review here.
In a piece about books that "relive the punk moment" for Vogue, Megan O'Grady discusses Sarrazin's Astragal. See the whole article here.
Read Dan Duray's take on the last collection of Leonid Tspkin's work here.
In this week's issue of The New Yorker, you can read an excerpt from The Unknown University entitled "Mexican Manifesto". Enjoy.
Lina Meruane interviews Spanish author Enrique Vila-Matas in the current issue of BOMB. Read it here.
Congratulations to Enrique Vila-Matas, whose novel Dublinesque is on the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist.
While in Denmark last August for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Literature Festival, César Aira sat down to discuss his "ideal fairy tale." Watch it here.