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« The battle with cattle | Main | I had not thought Eliot had written so many pages » Monday, December 11, 2006The classic made newIn the new Los Angeles Times Book Review, an appreciation of the New York Review Books series of classics in reprint. Disclosure: like the author of the piece, I'm a friend of the editor of the series, and worked at the magazine arm of the NYRB. (It's worth noting, too, that NYR Books publishes original titles, too, including collections of work from the magazine.) I must add, discounting for bias, that this is indeed a great series, and one that has been able to carve itself a niche that keeps it more than alive. Low cost helps; many of the books are either in the public domain or have rights that are inexpensive to obtain. I've read "English, August," too, and was delighted to discover that there exists an Indian slacker novel that incorporates elements of Kafka- or Bartleby-like workplace frustrations. The LAT reviewer has very cleverly nicknamed the book "Bright Heat, Big Dust." "Cassandra at the Wedding" is on the waiting-to-be-read stack, as are other books in the series. Ah, the brick-like "Anatomy of Melancholy": some day. Posted by Evan Hughes at 03:12 PM
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