{"product_id":"the-red-thread-twenty-years-of-nyrb-classics-isbn-9781681373911","title":"The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eTo celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYRB Classics, a handpicked anthology of selections from the series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the \u003ci\u003eRed Thread\u003c\/i\u003e offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of the celebrated NYRB Classics series, now twenty years old. The collection\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together twenty-five pieces drawn from the more than five hundred books that have come out as NYRB Classics over the last twenty years. Stories, essays, interviews, poems, along with chapters from novels and memoirs and other longer narratives have been selected by Edwin Frank, the series editor, to chart a distinctive, entertaining, and thought-provoking course across the expansive and varied terrain of the Classics series.“[L]egends come to life in this fine collection and stirring sights from the past are evoked again. The range is diverse . . . and everything is engrossing and piquant in a bite-sized way.”—Paddy Kehoe, \u003ci\u003eRTÉ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[NYRB Classics] is a national treasure, responsible as they are for republishing or translating so many of the most astonishing books over the last two decades. Tove Jansson’s \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Book\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Hughes’s \u003ci\u003eA High Wind in Jamaica\u003c\/i\u003e, Renata Adler’s \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e, John Williams’s \u003ci\u003eStoner\u003c\/i\u003e: These books and others make up a large percentage of my personal canon and that of many writers I know.” —Lauren Groff, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[The NYRB Classics series] is amazingly fine in its choice of titles and in the design of the books.” —Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The real contribution that New York Review Books makes [is] it helps you to see that the world is more different than you thought. By teaching you what the American novel has been, they teach you what it can be and in turn what the American people have been and can be. . . . What’s old is made new again.” —D.T. Max, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “New York Review Books Classics [is] acting, yet again, in its capacity as the Savior of Lost Greats.” —Claire Messud, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdwin Frank \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSnake Train: Poems 1984–2013\u003c\/i\u003e and the editorial director of the NYRB Classics series.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302719115493,"sku":"NP9781681373911","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681373911.jpg?v=1767741197","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-red-thread-twenty-years-of-nyrb-classics-isbn-9781681373911","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}