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Omni Decade Crush: NYRB Classics
Omni Decade Crush: NYRB Classics
There are fleeting daily crushes, and then there are the ones that linger for years. I've written a few adoring asides to the NYRB Classics series here in the past (mostly so far in the past that I can't find them anymore), but I've been waiting for a while to write a real mash note, and ...
NYRB Classics: The Edwin Frank List
amazon.com — One of the great pleasures of editing the NYRB Classics series is being able to put favorite... books back into print. Another, even greater, pleasure is discovering great books that I never suspected existed. All the books below fall into this second ... (more) NYRB Classics: The Edwin Frank List
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Inside NYRB Classics
Maud Newton — ... “Finding something lost gives us a sense of new possibility.” A talk with NYRB Classics’ editorial director Edwin Frank. ...

NYRB Classics
Bookninja — Edwin Frank, who besides being the editor for the NYRB Classics series was also my neighbour when I lived in New York (and possibly the nicest guy I met there), is interviewed at the Amazon blog . Amazon.com: How do the books come to you? Through your own reading and research, or through recommendations from other writers and readers you know? Are the writers who write your introductions often the ones who bring the books to you? Frank: All sorts of ways. Readers write in recommending things, writers do the same, as do agents. Used bookstores, reference books, blogs, and ...

A Quintet of Interviews for Your Delectation
The Millions — ... to Sarah Manguso for The Believer: “At the origin of the work there has to be strong feeling, if it’s going to be any good. Of course, that strong feeling can be a delight in language.” . . . The Book Bench unearths a 1978 John Updike interview with a Croation periodical, which finds the Rabbit Angstrom author halfway through his tetralogy. . . . Edwin Frank of NYRB Classics talks to Omnivoracious, and selects his favorite books in the series (via). ...

A Series of the Unexpected
The Second Pass — ... Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog recently sang the praises of the smart and lovely NYRB Classics series, and spoke to its editorial director, Edwin Frank: ...

Halloween links: Superfreakonomics, Evolutionary Psychology/Biology, The Books of Brin, and more
The Story's Story — ... * An interview with New York Review of Books Classics editorial director Edwin Frank. I love this quote: “Finding something lost gives us a sense of new possibility, don’t you think?” ...

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NYRB Challenge Book #7: A Classic Graphic Novel. . .The Dewey Divas and the Dudes
Whew, it's been a busy week with a lot of work reading, so I've only had time for a quickie. But NYRB can thankfully oblige; they have plenty of short little gems and this month, they've published their first graphic novel, (could any genre be more trendy right now?) which I read this morning ...