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New York Review of Books Fills a Niche By Reviving Forgotten Works - by Larry Rohter/ Books/ International New York Times/ The New York Times/ nytimes.com
"In 1882, the writer Anton Chekhov, just 22 and beginning his literary career, submitted a dozen short stories to Czar Alexander III’s censors, who discerned a subversive intent and promptly forbade publication of the collection, called “The Prank.” The satirical tales then languished in official archives for more than 130 years — until last week, when they were finally published, in English, by New York Review Books.
Publication of an overlooked work by a master like Chekhov would obviously be a coup for any publishing house, large or small. But New York Review Books, the publishing offshoot of the literary magazine The New York Review of Books, has made a specialty of rescuing and reviving all kinds of ignored or forgotten works in English or in translation, fiction and nonfiction, by writers renowned and obscure..."
A “resolutely eclectic” list: Edwin Frank, editorial director of New York Review Books, at its offices in the West Village. Credit Yana Paskova for The New York Times
Richard
"In 1882, the writer Anton Chekhov, just 22 and beginning his literary career, submitted a dozen short stories to Czar Alexander III’s censors, who discerned a subversive intent and promptly forbade publication of the collection, called “The Prank.” The satirical tales then languished in official archives for more than 130 years — until last week, when they were finally published, in English, by New York Review Books.
Publication of an overlooked work by a master like Chekhov would obviously be a coup for any publishing house, large or small. But New York Review Books, the publishing offshoot of the literary magazine The New York Review of Books, has made a specialty of rescuing and reviving all kinds of ignored or forgotten works in English or in translation, fiction and nonfiction, by writers renowned and obscure..."
A “resolutely eclectic” list: Edwin Frank, editorial director of New York Review Books, at its offices in the West Village. Credit Yana Paskova for The New York Times
Richard