Join the staff of New Directions at AWP in Chicago from February 29 through March 3. Stop by our booth (C20 in the Southwest Hall on the lower level of the Hilton Chicago hotel) for all the latest from your favorite ND authors or to buy books or our popular tote bags. Publicity Director Tom Roberge and editor Michael Barron will be manning the table.
New Directions authors, including Bei Dao, Rosemarie Waldrop, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, and Jimmy Santiago Baca, will be participating in a number of events over the weekend. Be sure not to miss them:
Poets House Presents Bei Dao
Friday March 2, 1:30-2:45pm
(Bei Dao, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, C.D. Wright)
International Ballroom North, Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor
The Unfolding Legacy of Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
Saturday March 3, 10:30-11:45am
(Elizabeth Robinson, Cole Swensen, Sasha Steensen, Forrest Gander, James Belflower)
Marquette, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor
Charting Unmarked Terrain: Fiction at the Borderland, Sponsored by Blue Flower Arts
Saturday March 3, 12-1:15pm
(Alison Granucci, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Linda Hogan, Pam Houston, Mat Johnson)
Grand Ballroom, Hilton Chicago, 2nd Floor
Why Independent Publishers Matter / Independent Publishers and the Changing Industry
Saturday March 3, 4:30-5:45pm
(Michael Miller, Tom Roberge, Jeff Shotts, Laura Howard, Eric Obenouf)
Grand Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, 4th Floor
Click here for more information on the 2012 AWP Conference.
by László Krasznahorkai
translated by George Szirtes
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that “the devil has all the good times.” The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless rain, focuses on the dozen remaining inhabitants of an unnamed isolated hamlet: failures stuck in the middle of nowhere. Schemes, crimes, infidelities, hopes of escape, and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkai’s meat.
Krasznahorkai is the contemporary master of the apocalypse who inspires comparisons with Gogol and Melville. – Susan Sontag
Obsessive, visionary." ––James Wood, The New Yorker
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We would like to congratulate pioneering graphic designer, artist and archivist, Elaine Lustig Cohen for being awarded the medal of excellence by American Institute for Graphic Arts. The medal from AIGA — the most distinguished in the field — is awarded to individuals in recognition of their exceptional achievements, services, or other contributions to the field of design and visual communication.
Elaine Lustig Cohen is the widow of acclaimed designer Alvin Lustig (noted for his iconic New Directions covers), and continued to work in the field of design after her husband's premature death. As noted by AIGA in its award's citation: "Few female American designers ran their own studios at that time. Indeed, this would have been difficult for anyone, but to fill Alvin’s large shoes required true grit. Nonetheless the 28-year-old Elaine, who had no formal training as a designer, accepted her trial by fire and emerged as a remarkable talent in her own right. She eventually specialized in book cover and jacket design, museum catalogs and building signage, adhering initially to Alvin’s aesthetic until she developed her own modernist style."
Our fingers are crossed for a possible new ND book design in Spring 2013.
In case you missed this post on the New Directions blog, we took a look at the way various reviewers described Anne Carson's Nox, and this one offers a sneak peak at her forthcoming book, Antigonick. We also spent some time with poetry by NBCC Award finalist Forrest Gander and Dylan Thomas.
On March 6, The New School will host A Collaborative Evening of Poetry and Music with Bollingen Prize winning poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs, moderated by Laurie Sheck. The event begins at 6:30 pm at Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street). Costs $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID at the door.
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(photo by Nina Subin)
Stop by Public Assembly on Tuesday, March 6 at 9 pm for an evening with Frederic Tuten (winner of a Guggenheim fellowship for Fiction), and Darcey Steinke: they will read from their work, converse with one another and the audience regarding art, religion, film, music, David Koresh, communism, the Internet, and the Animal Farm Reading Series, naturally followed by an onstage game of Apples to Apples.
New Directions publishes Tuten's The Adventures of Mao on the Long March.
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A 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist, Forrest Gander is on two panels at the AWP conference: one celebrating Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop and one––with Eliot Weinberger & C.D. Wright––celebrating Bei Dao. The panels will take place on March 2 and 3.
On March 7, Gander will read at the National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists reading at The New School University, Tishman Auditorium. Event begins at 7 pm.
March 13-16, in Boise, Gander will be reading at the Japanese Cultural Center, The Mexican Cultural Center, and the University of Idaho.
On March 30, Gander will read translations for ACLA (American Comparative Literature Assoc) Conference at Brown University.
On March 14, Bernadette Mayer, magnificent poet and past winner of a Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts will be reading at Columbia College Chicago, Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall. Event begins at 5:30 pm.
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On March 23, Poets House will host an evening of readings and conversations celebrating the life of the Dutch poet Hans Faverey. Described by J.M. Coetzee as “the purest poetic intelligence of his generation,” Faverey has received various literary awards, including the 1990 Constantijn Huygens Prize for his work as a whole. New Directions publishes his selected poems, Against the Forgetting.
The event will begin at 7 pm, and its mediators will include New Directions' own Jeffrey Yang, as well as author, editor and translator Eliot Weinberger. It will be held in Kray Hall of Poets House, located at Ten River Terrace (at Murray Street).
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On March 22-24 Declan Spring and Barbara Epler will appear at the Oxford Conference for the Book at the University of Mississippi with other notable editors, authors, publishers, educators, literacy advocates, and readers of all ages.
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