/lit/ - Literature

>>15458097
you actually bought that box set shit.

>>15458107
Yeah I'm not poor and like to support publishers I like.

>>15458117
I've only read half of these, but they were some of the most enjoyable reading experiences of my life. Have a great time with these, Anon.

>nyrb

Why do all these high quality publishers actually only publish like 100 books? Wtf. You can’t even get something like A Clockwork Orange from these cunts.

>>15458182
You forgot to say reddit too.

I plan on making my own 10 book box set in august when the release a new jean patrick manchette translation.

>>15458194
>You forgot to say reddit too.

>>15458191
NYRB publishes typically out of print, forgotten books and global classics which don't have accessible translations. They publish a niche set of books. That's why.

>>15458323
THEN WHY HAVEN’T THEY PUBLISHED TPMACOAJS?

>>15458097
Sleepless Nights is pretty awful. I give more credence to the meme here that women are incapable of producing anything of value after reading that one.

>>15458332
They did
https://www.amazon.com/Private-Memoirs-Confessions-Justified-Classics/dp/1590170253

Is /lit/ the reason this publisher stays in business?

>>15458624
hardly, considering it has few big haters here.

>>15458117
based

Speedboat is really good

>>15458390
Wordsworth-tier cover.

>>15458815
That just makes it based.

>>15458182
They're great, though. They publish a lot of slow-burn, bone-chilling novels.

>>15458182
>>15458248
>unironically uses soijak
You actually have a mental illness.

>>15458097
holy fucking cringe....

>>15458323
>NYRB
that's cool. I like it.

>Bros...it arrived!!!

>>15458117
Penguin owns NYRB. that doesn’t make your post any less based tho

>>15458815
wtf anon. i don't say that nyrb covers are amazing, but are you really saying they are the same as these basedly fucking hideous wordsworth covers? do you even have eyes

>>15459677
Where can I get hardbacks like of those bindings shown?

>>15459716
The cover is an insult to ‘The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner’. Granted, the novel has no good covers.

>>15459735
Easton Press and Franklin Library

>>15459706
>Penguin owns NYRB.
That's not true. Penguin Random House is just the distributor for NYRB Classics in most parts of the world (outside UK & Ireland). NYRB is still independently owned and operated.

>>15458097
I bought 24 books for 50 dollars two days ago.

Free shipping too. I wanted them to come in only one package (in order not to force the mailmen to move more during this pandemic), and luckily I found a seller who sends everything up to 10kg with free shipping, as long as it's above 50 dollars (300 reais, I'm from Brazil).

I felt quite happy, specially as they had some very excellent titles.

>>15459706
What's wrong with penguin?

>>15458825
Kek

>>15459780
Wtf where and how

>>15460398
penguin, a divison of pearson random house, education publishing and course access code scam artists

>>15460452
It's like beer distribution. If you want to reach more than a handful of local bookstores, you have to make a deal with one of the major distributors.

>>15458097
>all shit
wtf man?

>>15460433
At the Brazilian website Estante Virtual.

>>15458826
>You actually have a mental illness.

what is the best NYRB book you have read? for me it's nothing, because I haven't read any. i am open to reading some of their translations but don't know where to start

>>15458097
Get your NYRB onions ass shit off of this board immediately

>>15459772
Cheers.

>>15460641
I've read the invention of morel and the pregrine and they were both pretty good. planning to read some other ones

>Most Popular 25 NYRB Classics Titles:
John Williams: "Stoner"
Stefan Zweig: "Chess Story"
Georges Simenon: "Dirty Snow"
Tove Jansson: "The Summer Book"
Richard Hughes: "A High Wind in Jamaica"
Adolfo Bioy Casares: "The Invention of Morel"
Robert Walser: "Jakob von Gunten"
Kingsley Amis: "Lucky Jim"
Vasily Grossman: "Life and Fate"
Patrick Leigh Fermor: "A Time of Gifts"
J.G. Farrell: "The Siege of Krishnapur"
J.L. Carr: "A Month in the Country"
Leonardo Sciascia: "The Day of the Owl"
L.P. Hartley: "The Go-Between"
Renata Adler: "Speedboat"
Don Carpenter: "Hard Rain Falling"
Sylvia Townsend Warner: "Lolly Willowes"
Frans G. Bengtsson: "The Long Ships"
John Wyndham: "The Chrysalids"
Elizabeth Taylor: "Angel"
Alberto Moravia: "Contempt"
Tatyana Tolstaya: "The Slynx"
Tayeb Salih: "Season of Migration to the North"
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: "Memories of the Future"
G.B. Edwards: "The Book of Ebenezer Le Page"

>>15460641
Malicroix which they published recently was great. It's a good book about isolation and discovering yourself. A book very in tune with nature as well. It was great. Highly recommend Malicroix. Berlin Alexanderplatz is another good one. It's a modernist classic and also a book of the Weimar era. Franz Biberkopf is a classic and great character. It's a book that deals with the decadence in German society and the silent suffering of WWI vets. It's also a great book about what seems to be pointless struggle in strife. The Book of Job is a parallel Döblin had in mind when writing it. Franz Biberkopf is often compared to Job and his struggle.

what is /lit/s problem with NYRB books? I haven't read much but they seem like a decent paperback publisher to me. The books I have from them are decent quality and the cover art is not terrible (as in the case of many recently published books). What triggers you anons about NYRB so much?

>>15460696
Life and Fate is based as fuck

>>15460683
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>>15458107
Why does NYRB get all your panties in a wad? I don't think anyone on this board could cogently articulate a reasoning. Every negative post has fallen on soulless buzzwords and empty, overused memetics.

>>15460720
there is no problem
it's just performative bitching

>>15460729
It's Penguin Classics for English majors

>>15460729
NYRB does not bother me. I just queried why they published so few books, you fuck.

>>15460754
No, it isn't.

>>15460641
Their translation of dead souls was pretty good

>>15460720
They mask the mediocrity of what they publish with a veneer of novelty, exclusivity and artsy pretension.

>>15460780
So you're entire problem is their marketing strategy.
Why do you care? Are you some kind of marketing critic or something?

>>15460780
You're an idiot. They publish high-quality literature that was rightly regarded as classic in the past, but which has subsequently been elbowed out by trendy claptrap.

>>15460783
No, their problem is an utterly mediocre product that doesn't at all warrant the price of admission.

>>15460762
You're right, it's Penguin Classics for people who read the New Yorker in order to feign a sense of metropolitanism

>>15460801
Wrong mag, doofus.

>>15460800
You honestly just sound like an idiot.
I fail to see how else you can make a sweeping generalization about the works they have published, the majority of which I doubt you have actually read.

>>15460816
>I fail to see
Don't blame me for you cognitive shortcomings.

>>15460826
So you have cheap tricks and no substance. Sounds about right. You aren't fooling anyone with the hipster act - we all know you don't read and we all know you're a retard.

>>15460780
They commission new translations of classics. Their Dead Souls is amazing.
Why are you guys so bitter and judgmental? A normal person would just see it as a publishing house, but you attach a whole world of pretension and think of them in the worst light. This doesn't sound a problem with the object, but it sounds like a problem with you.

>>15460799
They publish second-rate literature that was relegated to the ash heap of history for a reason.

>>15460838
They only read books that they can check off their list of "great classics" so NYRB is largely useless to them.

>>15460836
I've presented a case, you've presented me with accusations of idiocy and hipsterdom. Present a counter-case or remain making a fool of yourself.

>>15460844
That's for the reader to decide.

>>15458097

Enjoy, palo.

>>15460838
You shouldn't be reading translations in the first place, honestly.

>>15460861
Your case rested on a glaring logical fallacy.
But you can't understand why I'm convinced you're an idiot.

>>15460874
You're monolingual.

>>15460838
"normal people" are fucking retards

>>15460882
You're projecting.

>>15460844
Wrong. If you had any taste, you would understand the important service they provide.

>>15460875
I see you've chosen the latter.

>>15458117
it's abundantly clear that you don't read literature, you "consume books" proven by the faggoty narcissistic impulse to post your stack and brag about its price tag like you're on instagram. congrats on the literary equivalent of a funko pop collection you faggot.

>>15460901
Stop appropriating the butterfly moniker for your dirty work, pseud.

>>15460892
Sanitation is an important service too. That doesn't mean it's tasteful.

>>15460901
>a trip calling another person a narcissist

That's rich. Anyway, everyone already knows you don't actually read.

>>15460890
No, that would be you, sweaty :)

>>15460935
The only thing I'm projecting is semen into your mother's rectal cavity.

>>15460962
Good to know, because I hear the business end of her alimentary canal is fucking PARCHED.

>>15460962
He's right, though. I can read in six (or more) languages and still read translations.

>>15460901
Nothing wrong with sharing what you love! Another anon might see this thread and stumble across these title for the first time. Books and their status as "worth reading" or "classics" spread by word of mouth and visibility. Maybe another anon will check one of these titles out and stumble across something that moves them or speaks to them as a human.
You just sound jaded and bitter and seem to think life is a vanity contest because you've spent the majority of life on social media. You only see the actions and things people do as ways to garner attention, when the reality it those actions are expressions of being human. Your brain has been erroneously rewired to view social interaction as "likes". Get help.

>>15461067
>Get help.

what does this even mean? why do redditors say this? what sort of "help" do redditors receive in their lives?

>>15460874
Fuck off

>>15461112
Who hurt you?

>>15459677
Nice. Makes me want to upgrade my library!

>>15458182
>>15460603
kys

>>15459735
Check ebay for Easton Press and Franklin library. I just snagged a nice green leather copy of Faust for about $14

>>15460720
I don't really care one way or another, but one small gripe I have, and I realize that this has nothing to do with the publisher themselves, is that when you see a nyrb edition on goodreads where it says "readers of this book have also enjoyed" you'll always find a long list of exclusively nyrb books. This says to me that alot of nyrb readers only read books because they say nyrb on the spine, I guess for psued cred or something. But overall I'm grateful for the occasional niche gem they publish.

Oh, and that one time when they shilled here and then complained about this place on twitter. It's tit-for-tat, then.

>>15462636
you're making a lot of assumptions about goodreads' algorithm for determining those lists

>>15462640
No, I made one assumption.

>>15462636
>Oh, and that one time when they shilled here and then complained about this place on twitter. It's tit-for-tat, then.
Pls anon, fellow /lit/izen, share the link.

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>>15460800
The price is the same price as any paperback? It's literally just buying the same product, but with better than average paper quality and writers you don't find for free in the local library.

No need to fetishize them, but also no downside to having their editions.

>>15460901
absolutely fucking yikes from you desu. i remember you from a agriculture thread and you posted a bunch of shit you admitted you hadn't read while calling them recommendations. why don't you wait until you're off the rag to start posting again you insufferable cunt.

>>15462835
Thank you.

>>15462835
This doesn't prove that they shill here. Merely that someone in their social media department browses /lit/, or that an anon on 4chan linked them to that thread.

>>15458097
Jealous of Witch Grass. Speedboat is great but Pitch Dark is much better

>>15461067
I am genuinely the third-party anon you're talking about. Never heard of these books.

>>15458097
who?

>>15458097
Looks great, OP. I like NYRB: whenever I see one used I pick it up, and it's usually a title I've never read, and they're usually decent or very good reads. Their children's classics are also very well-chosen in that "good and once-popular selections that aren't universally known or remembered these days, especially in North America" vein. Their reprinting of the Cat Club books was fantastic.

>>15458107
NYRB did a box set or some bundle offer? What was it?

this book will make you rip your dick off and then grow pubic hair since you're all adolescents fighting over a solid publisher...

>be glad nyrb exists, better than 98% of books out there

This is the most dumbest and immature thread i've ever seen in /lit/.

Bashing on a decent publisher with outdated, valueless terms and overused memetics because it's slightly popular while you probably don't even have the capacity and will to appreciate and read the amount of literature as op, fucking retards.

>>15465463
They have a few on their website right now.

>>15458097
Speedboat go VROOOM FAST WATER SPLASH WOW.

>>15465677
This was one of my favorites. I feel like it would resonate with almost anybody who posts here, Kristensen perfectly nailed what would evolve into the bitter aimless mindset of disaffected 21st century guys even better than Dosto did in Notes.
Life & Fate gets mentioned a lot too in these threads, deservedly so. Warlock by Oakley Hall and the short stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (NYRB has them split up into like three or four small collections, for some reason) are worth checking out too.

>>15467462
Warlock is a very good, character-driven novel. Some of the best fleshing out of characters I've read.

>>15462587
bad translation i bet.

NYRB and New Directions are saving literature in America. There are other good presses, but those two have legacy and mainstream attention at this point while still publishing quality books. For every “commercial” release one of them does (say, an inoffensive holiday anthology or w/e), they’ll release about five other obscurer works.

And yeah, NYRB is distributed by Penguin, but they’re on their own as far as costs and production go (kin to New Directions and Norton). The publishing world is small. If presses like these go, so do the rest

>>15458097
Test

>>15465463

>>15467570
Thanks! I only have a few NYRB right now (pic related) so I may order some more.

>>15458191
You can find that anywhere, the appeal of NYRB is well made publications of hard to find works

>>15467694
I wonder if you are better off waiting for one of their sales where they take 40% off books. I plan on buying a bunch of their crime fiction when they have the next sale.

>>15467716
Could be. I'm not in the U.S., so shipping and exchange really drive up the prices.