The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics
A Selection
Published on 24. September 2019
288 pages
978-1-68137-392-8 (ISBN)
Description
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYRB Classics, a handpicked anthology of selections from the series.
In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of the celebrated NYRB Classics series, now twenty years old. The collection brings together twenty-five pieces drawn from the more than five hundred books that have come out as NYRB Classics over the last twenty years. Stories, essays, interviews, poems, along with chapters from novels and memoirs and other longer narratives have been selected by Edwin Frank, the series editor, to chart a distinctive, entertaining, and thought-provoking course across the expansive and varied terrain of the Classics series.
In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of the celebrated NYRB Classics series, now twenty years old. The collection brings together twenty-five pieces drawn from the more than five hundred books that have come out as NYRB Classics over the last twenty years. Stories, essays, interviews, poems, along with chapters from novels and memoirs and other longer narratives have been selected by Edwin Frank, the series editor, to chart a distinctive, entertaining, and thought-provoking course across the expansive and varied terrain of the Classics series.
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Edwin Frank was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University. He is the author of Snake Train: Poems 1984-2013 and the editorial director of the NYRB Classics series.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright and More Information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- The Read Thread
- The Camel
- The Long Crossing
- New York Confidential
- A Passion in the Desert
- The Short Days of Winter
- The Wedding Ring
- An Unusual Lady and Her Unusual Beaux
- Shui Ling
- Choral Ode from Hippolytos
- Charlotte
- Ethics and Aesthetics
- A Talk with George Jackson
- Quadraturin
- For as with Animals, so It Is with Man
- the One Must Die, the Other Likewise
- Helen
- Billie Holiday
- Yerevan
- Kardamyli: Byzantium Restored
- Yvette
- The Great City of Phoenix
- Vicuña Porto
- The Flesh-man from Far Wide
- The Earthgod and the Fox
- An Escaped Man
- I'm Waiting for the Ferry
- Chronological List of NYRB Classics
- Appendix
- Biographical Notes
- Credits
