Join author, publisher, and internationally acclaimed Proust scholar Jean-Yves Tadié and author and Barnard professor Caroline Weber as they discuss the Proust issue of Les Cahiers de L’Herne and the 75-page unpublished novel by the greatest 20th century novelist. Marcel Proust being a godfatherly figure to Albertine, it is a tremendous honor and profound joy to (even virtually) host Jean-Yves…
On April 10, join us for a book talk with Laura Linstedt and translator David Hackston on My Friend Natalia, the author’s U.S. debut, available from Liveright Publishing on March 23, 2021. My Friend Natalia is a linguistic sexual thriller centered on one woman’s potent affliction: Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. The unnamed, ungendered therapist who narrates the novel has leapt at the chance to…
Born in Vienna in the 1920s, Eva Kollisch was sent as a teenager on a 1938 Kindertransport to England. She then was able to come to the United States, where the family was reunited. The author writes about these experiences, as well as growing up in the world of left-wing politics and culture in New York, finding her way as…
