onegoodmove

Do you love to read? I do, and not just the latest bestseller, though I ocassionaly read the book everyone is talking about. I read more fiction than non-fiction. I tend toward the classics of which there are ample to provide a lifetime of reading. I keep a list of what I read. It often provides a point of departure for a discussion of reading with other lovers of the written word. I have discovered new authors and shared my favorites with others enriching the experience for both of us. I was surprised recently when I got an email from Edwin Frank an editor for the New York Review of Books as a result of his finding my list in a google search. I'll just let you read what he wrote.

Dear Norm Jenson,

I was led to your site by a Google search for mentions of William
McPherson's Testing the Current, which I'd just read and admired. I notice
you are a fan of Simenon, and I thought that I'd bring your attention
to the reissues--in substantially improved translations-- of two of his
psychological novels--Dirty Snow (formerly, The Snow Was Black) and Three
Bedrooms in Manhattan--in the classics series I edit for The New York Review
of Books. Indeed the whole series might be of interest to you. It exists to
bring back or newly translate a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles
that have been neglected of late. The whole list can be seen at our website:
www.nyrb.com.

Keep up the good work (on all fronts).

All best,

Edwin Frank

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Edwin Frank
Editor, NYRB Classics
The New York Review of Books
1755 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212.293.1639
Fax: 212.333.5374

The usual way we webloggers receive links to commercial sites is through comment spam, so I was pleased that Edwin took the time to write to me personally, In one sense his letter is commercial, but in the larger sense it was of one reader to another sharing a common interest.. Thanks Edwin and to the other lovers of the classics check out their website, I found much of interest to me and believe you will find it of interest to you..