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Stranger Than Fiction

Jan 19, 2025 | culturevulture.net | Edwin Frank |Lewis Whittington

‘Stranger Than Fiction’ is Edwin Frank’s vigorous study of the evolution of the 20th century novel and the novelists who redirected the genre and its agency with readers navigating a brave and daunting world. Frank is Editorial Director of New York Review Books and has the inside track(at times too inside) and ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ is, indeed, a sweaty and heady dose of comparative literature.
A Year in Reading: Edwin Frank

Dec 18, 2024 | themillions.com | Edwin Frank

The book that held my attention through most of the year, that I went back to again and again—perforce, it is a very long book—was Volume 1 of Capital, the only volume of his magnum opus that Karl Marx saw into print.
The Witches of El Paso

Dec 11, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Luis Jaramillo |Alexander Sorondo |Mitchell Abidor |Edwin Frank

Cover image of The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo (Primero Sueño Press and Atria Books, 2024)On the bridge to Juárez, Marta peers down at the Rio Grande trickling along its concrete ditch. The air is heavy with diesel exhaust. People walk across the bridge carrying bright blue and red plastic bags, pushing granny carts toward El Paso. Marta thinks back to when she was a girl, and women from Juárez would knock on Olga’s door, looking for work.
Stranger Than Fiction

Nov 22, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Edwin Frank |Mitchell Abidor |Adam Mansbach |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Cover image of STRANGER THAN FICTION: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel by Edwin Frank (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)This book began over the kitchen sink a long time ago. I was doing the dishes after dinner. A CD of Radiohead’s album Kid A was playing, which got me thinking about a recently published book, The Rest Is Noise, by the classical music critic (and Radiohead fan) Alex Ross.
Why the Twentieth-Century Novel Is Stranger Than Fiction

Nov 22, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Mitchell Abidor |Edwin Frank |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Helen Schulman

“Teenage Boy Reading” | Roy Zalesky / Smithsonian Museum / CC0In the years that Edwin Frank has been at the head of the NYRB Classics publishing house, he has revived forgotten or out of print novels like John Williams’s Stoner and Vassily Grossman’s Life and Fate. He has also made available the work of previously unknown authors from America and around the world.
What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

Nov 19, 2024 | lithub.com | Edwin Frank

Edwin Frank Considers the Roots of a Nation's Literary Reckoning The postwar moment of a brash, distinctive new American novel—Nabokov’s Lolita—coming to light is also the moment in which the work of a much older William Faulkner finally gained recognition in his own country. Faulkner’s great period as writer—the late 1920s into the middle ’30s, the years of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and Light in August—was long behind him, but it had earned him a European...
STRANGER THAN FICTION

Nov 19, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Edwin Frank |Steve Martin |Harry Bliss |Amy Tan

Academic yet accessible, with special appeal to avid readers of classic lit. A history of the 20th-century novel that examines, contextualizes, and draws connections among work by more than 30 authors. Frank, editorial director of New York Review Books, presents his essays in three parts, chronologically ordered.
A Heady History of the Novel Embraces Works That Shock, Not Soothe

Nov 10, 2024 | nytimes.com | Edwin Frank

STRANGER THAN FICTION: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, by Edwin FrankIs the novel in mortal peril, or remarkably resilient? That is the kind of dust kicked up by "Stranger Than Fiction," a rattling heritage railway train of history and criticism by Edwin Frank that seems especially attractive at this post-election moment, when many are worried that America is about to run right off the tracks.
How the Story Turns Out

Mar 4, 2024 | thepointmag.com | Scott Sherman |Edwin Frank

In memory of Victor Navasky (1932–2023) Edwin Frank, born in Colorado in 1960, is the editor of New York Review Books and NYRB Classics. Since 1999, he and a handful of colleagues have published more than five hundred titles noteworthy for their excellence, latitude and cosmopolitanism. The series began by excavating out-of-print gems—in literature, history, criticism, travel writing, essays, memoir—but grew to include original work.