Edwin Frank, editorial director of the NYRB Classics, joins us to discuss the evolution of the series. We learn how the books are selected, how the project has grown, and whether or not there was a secret plan all along.
Endless thanks to John Hoekstra, who composed our theme music.
References:The Iliad and the Odyssey adapted by Jane Werner Watson and illustrated by Alice & Martin ProvensenThe Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. TolkienThe HobbitThe Reader's CatalogJ. R. AckerleyAlberto MoraviaThe Woman of RomeThe Winners by Julio CortázarThe Blind Owl by Sadegh HedayatNicolas PoussinThe Paper Museum of Cassiano dal PozzoEzra PoundAnchor BooksPeasants and Other Stories by Anton ChekhovEdmund WilsonEileen ChangVasily GrossmanThe Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes"The Lottery" by Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the CastleAndrey PlatonovVictor SergeTove JanssonMy Dog TulipThe Stones of Venice by John RuskinHis Only Son by Leopoldo AlasTristana by Benito Pérez GaldósThe World of Odysseus by M. I. FinleyMary BeardHaute vulgarisationHeaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind by Lyall WatsonThe Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton"The Task of the Translator" by Walter BenjaminThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinAmerican University in Cairo PressSharjah International Book FairNightmare Alley by William Lindsay GreshamDoctor Faustus by Thomas MannSylvia Townsend WarnerThe Red ThreadThe Hall of Uselessness by Simon LeysTravels in China by Roland BarthesThe Peach Blossom Fan by Kong ShangrenIrretrievable by Theodor FontaneRider on a White Horse by Theodor StormSignet ClassicsJames WrightSunflower by Gyula KrúdyThe Adventures of SindbadMalina by Ingeborg Bachmann
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