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Overview
Created and curated by the writer and translator Gini Alhadeff, Storybook ND—our new series of slim hardcover fiction books—aims to deliver the pleasure one felt as a child reading a marvelous book from cover to cover in an afternoon. The series, beautifully designed by Peter Mendelsund, will feature original works by beloved New Directions authors, and will also introduce new writers to the list. As Alhadeff notes, “There’s nothing sweeter than to fall, for a few hours, between the covers of a perfect little book! And the image on the front, by a contemporary artist such as Francesco Clemente or Kiki Smith, will draw you in. Longer stories or shorter novels with a beautiful face: that’s Storybook ND.”
Storybook ND: https://www.ndbooks.com/series/storybook-nd/
Challenges in order of series publication.
Note: Not affiliated with New Directions Publishing in anyway.
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2 participants (8 books)
Overview
Created and curated by the writer and translator Gini Alhadeff, Storybook ND—our new series of slim hardcover fiction books—aims to deliver the pleasure one felt as a child reading a marvelous book from cover to cover in an afternoon. The series, beautifully designed by Peter Mendelsund, will feature original works by beloved New Directions authors, and will also introduce new writers to the list. As Alhadeff notes, “There’s nothing sweeter than to fall, for a few hours, between the covers of a perfect little book! And the image on the front, by a contemporary artist such as Francesco Clemente or Kiki Smith, will draw you in. Longer stories or shorter novels with a beautiful face: that’s Storybook ND.”
Storybook ND: https://www.ndbooks.com/series/storybook-nd/
Challenges in order of series publication.
Note: Not affiliated with New Directions Publishing in anyway.
Challenge Books
1
The Famous Magician
César Aira
A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?
2
3 Streets
Yōko Tawada
Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin
3
Early Light
Osamu Dazai
Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human
4
The English Understand Wool
Helen DeWitt
A modern amorality play about a 17-year-old girl, the wilder shores of connoisseurship, and the power of false friends.
5
The Woman Who Killed the Fish
Clarice Lispector
Four beguiling tales for children of all ages—a surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector’s genius
6
Spadework for a Palace
László Krasznahorkai
A joyful ode—in a single soaring, crazy sentence—to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds
7
The Road to the City
Natalia Ginzburg
A magnificently stark book—within the smallness of one poor, muddled, provincial life, Natalia Ginzburg finds enormous pain and loss
8
In the Act
Rachel Ingalls
From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban, another delicious, highly improbable, and hilariously believable tale of a wife’s scorched-earth rebellion