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nYRB classics

3 tHe oUtWARD RooM by Millen Brand

4 tHe WoRLD As I FoUnD It by Bruce duffy

5 tHe RoAD by Vasily GrossMan

6 tUn-HUAnG by yasushi inoue

7 AFteR cLAUDe by iris owens

8 LoVe’s WoRK by Gillian rose

9 JoURneY Into tHe PAst by stefan ZweiG

10 nAtURe stoRIes by Jules renard

11 conQUeReD cItY by Victor serGe

the new York Review children’s collection

12 MUD PIes AnD otHeR RecIPes by MarJorie winslow illustrations by erik Blegvad

13 sUPPosInG by alastair reid illustrations by Bob Gill

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14 LonDon QUIZ by traVis elBorouGh & nick rennison

15 ItALY DIsH BY DIsH by Monica cesari sartoni

16 BIscottI: recipes from the american academy in rome by Mona talbott Photographs by Matthew Monteith & annie schlechter

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17 In teARInG HAste: letters Between deborah devonshire and Patrick leigh fermor edited by charlotte Mosley

18 InDex

inside backcover oRDeRInG InFoRMAtIon

tHe oUtWARD RooM

Millen Brand

introduction by Peter cameron

“a fine book. it is one of those firmly painted, exquisite min-iatures of life, rare among modern books, that contrive to be unsparing and honest, and at the same time refreshing and lovely.” —theodore dreiser

The Outward Room is a rediscovered classic of American litera-ture, a book about a young woman’s journey from madness to self-discovery that is as immediate and moving today as when it first appeared in 1937. Having suffered a nervous breakdown after her younger brother’s death in a car accident, Harriet Demuth has been committed to a mental hospital, where her doctor’s Freudian nostrums have done little to make her well. Convinced that she and she alone can refashion her life, Harriet makes a daring escape from the hospital—hopping a train by night and riding the rails into the vastness of New York City in the light of the rising sun. This is the 1930s, the midst of the Great Depression, and at first Harriet is lost among the city’s anonymous multitudes. She pawns her jewelry and is living an increasingly hand-to-mouth existence when she meets John, a machine-shop worker. Slowly Harriet begins to recover her sense of self; slowly she and John begin to fall in love. The story of that emerging love, told with the lyricism of Virginia Woolf and the realism of Theodore Dreiser, is the heart of Millen Brand’s remarkable book.

Millen Brand (1906–1980) taught writing at New York Uni-versity and worked as a book editor for Crown Publishers. His books include Local Lives, a book of poems about the Penn-sylvania Dutch; Savage Sleep; Peace March: Nagasaki to Hiroshima;and The Outward Room. In 1948 he was nominated for an Oscar with Frank Partos for their adaptation of Mary Jane Ward’s novel The Snake Pit.

Peter Cameron is the author of several novels, including Andorra,The Weekend, and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You. He lives in New York City.

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tHe WoRLD As I FoUnD It

Bruce duffy“astonishing. . . more than 500 pages of dazzling language and dizzying speculation on the life of ludwig wittgenstein.” —a. o. scott, The New York Times

Vienna, 1900. The trenches of World War I and the dark slideinto Nazi Europe. The intellectual lights of Cambridge University and the nabobs on the outskirts of Bloomsbury. Marriage and domestic life. These are just a few of the worlds the reader enters in this exhilarating novel of ideas, romance, and imagination.

Irreverently trespassing on the turf of history, biography, and philosophy, The World as I Found It is the tale of three wildly different men adrift in the twentieth century. At the center is Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most magnetic philosophers of our time: brilliant, tortured, mercurial, forging his own solitary path while leaving a permanent mark—and sometimes a scar—on lives all around him. Playing in counterpoint are Wittgenstein’s two reluctant mentors: Bertrand Russell, past his philosophical prime yet eager to break new ground as a public intellectual, educational theorist, and sexual adventurer; and G. E. Moore, the great Cambridge don who exercised such an influence on E. M. Forster and who was devoted to the pleasures of the table and pure thought until, late in life, he discovered real fulfillment in marriage and fatherhood.

Rich in humor and tragedy, lust and violence, spirit and striving,this is a novel that will enthrall any reader.

Bruce Duffy was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Irish American parents. His novels include The World as I Found It and Last Comes the Egg. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award. He lives in Maryland.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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tHe RoAD

Vasily GrossMan

a new translation from the russian by robert chandler, elizabeth chandler, and olga Mukovnikova

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The writer whom Vasily Grossman loved most of all was Anton Chekhov. Grossman’s own short stories are no less accomplishedthan his novels, and they are remarkably varied. “The Dog” is about the first living creature to be sent into space and then returned to Earth. “The Road,” an account of the war from a mule in an Italian artillery regiment, can be read as a 4,000-word distillation of Life and Fate. “Mother” is based on a truestory about an orphaned girl who was adopted by Nikolay Yezhov (head of the NKVD at the height of the Great Terror) and his wife; it includes brief portraits of Stalin and severalimportant Soviet writers and politicians—all of them as seen through the eyes of the little girl or of her honest but uncom-prehending peasant nanny. As well as a dozen stories—from“In the Town of Berdichev” (Grossman’s first published success)to “In Kislovodsk” (the last story he wrote)—this volume includes an unusual article about the life of a Moscow cemetery. It also contains two letters Grossman wrote to his mother, after her death at the hands of the Nazis, and the complete text of “The Hell of Treblinka,” one of the very first, and still among the most powerful, accounts of a Nazi death camp.

Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) worked as a reporter for the army newspaper Red Star during World War II. His vivid yet sober “The Hell of Treblinka,” was translated and used as tes-timony in the Nuremberg trials. His novels Life and Fate and Everything Flows are published by NYRB Classics.

Robert Chandler has edited and translated numerous Russian titles, including Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate and Everything Flows. He is the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin toBuida and the author of a biography of Alexander Pushkin. He has co-translated numerous works by Andrey Platonov, including the award-winning Soul, which is published by NYRB Classics.He lives in London.

Elizabeth Chandler is a co-translator of Andrey Platonov’s Soul and Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter.

Olga Mukovnikova is a freelance translator, translation reviser for Amnesty International, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

Vasily Grossman

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tUn-HUAnG

yasushi inoue

translated from the Japanese by Jean oda Moy

“a work of superb historical imagination. . . ”—James kirkup, The Independent

Tun-Huang, in Central Asia, is a walled city along the Silk Road that historically connected China to the West. It is also the site of the Thousand Buddha cave where, in the early 1900s, Sir Aurel Stein discovered an extraordinary treasure trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures. In Tun-Huang the novel, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue imagines how the scriptures came to be hidden in the caves. Set in the eleventh century CE, this is the story of Chao Tsing-te, a young Chinese man whose accidental failure to take the test that would have qualified him for a career as a government bureaucrat leads to a chance encounter that takes him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the Chinese Empire. There he finds love, distinguishes himself in battle, and finally devotes himself to the strange task that led to the rediscovery of the scriptures so many centuries later.

A book of magically vivid scenes, fierce passions, and astonishingadventures to equal Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tun-Huangis also a profound and stirring meditation on the mystery of his-tory and the hidden presence of the past.

Yasushi Inoue (1907–1991) graduated from Kyoto University and became a journalist for the Mainichi Daily News. His first novel, The Bullfight, won the revered Akutagawa Prize. Among his works that have been translated into English are Journey Through Samarkand, Chronicle of My Mother, and a book of short stories entitled Lou-lan. In 1976 he was decorated with theCultural Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Japanese government.

Jean Oda Moy is the American-born daughter of Japanese immi-grants. She has worked as a clinical social worker, a teacher and a translator of Japanese literature into English. Her latest book is a memoir, Snow on Willow. She lives in Northern California.

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AFteR cLAUDe

iris owens“a very funny book by an exhilarating talent.” —The New York Times

“Good enough to have convulsed the late oscar levant, barbed, bitchy and hilariously sour.” —kenneth tynan

“spiky with mockery, carbon steel wit and mature observa-tion.” —The Village Voice

Harriet has left her boyfriend Claude, “the French rat.” At least that is how she prefers to frame the matter. In fact, after yet one more argument, Claude has just instructed Harriet to move out of his Greenwich Village apartment—not that she has any intention of doing so. To the contrary, she will stay and exact her vengeance—or such is her intention until Claude has her unceremoniously evicted. Still, though moved out, Harriet is not about to move on. Not in any way. Girlfriends circle around to give advice, but Harriet only takes offense, and you can understand why. Because mad and maddening as she may be, Harriet sees past the polite platitudes that everyone else is content to spout and live by. She is an unblinkered, unbuttoned, unrelenting, and above all bitingly funny prophetess of all that is wrong with women’s lives and hearts—until, in a surprise twist, she finds a savior in a dark room at the Chelsea Hotel.

Iris Owens moved from Greenwich Village to Paris at the age of twenty after her first marriage failed. She wrote numerous wildly popular and regularly banned erotic novels for the Traveller’s Companion series of Olympia Press under the pseudonym HarrietDaimler. Under her own name, she published After Claude and Hope Diamond Refuses. She died in 2008.

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LoVe’s WoRK

Gillian rose“this small book contains multitudes. . . it provokes, inspires,and illuminates more profoundly than many a bulky volume, and it delivers what its title promises, a new allegory about love.” —Marina warner, London Review of Books

Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a book of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and endurance of love, love that becomes real and endures through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents’ divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends’ tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete—to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge (“I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs,” Rose writes, “My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers”) and with unsettling wisdom (“To live, to love, is to be failed”), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unan-swerable questions.

Gillian Rose (1947–1995) was a professor at the University of Warwick in England, where she taught modern European phi-losophy, social and political thought, and theology. Her books include Nihilism, The Broken Middle, Judaism and Modernity, and Hegel.

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JoURneY Into tHe PAst

stefan ZweiG

a new translation from the German by anthea Bell


“Journey into the Past is vintage stefan Zweig—lucid, tender,powerful and compelling.” —chris schuler, The Independent

A deep study of the unhappy heart by one of the masters of the psychological novel, Journey into the Past, here for the first time in America, is a previously unpublished novella that was found among Zweig’s stories after his death. Investigating the strange ways in which love, in spite of everything—time, war, betrayal—can last, Zweig tells the story of Louis, an ambitious young man from a modest background who falls in love with the wife of his rich employer. His love is returned, and indeed the couple vow to live together, but then Louis is sent to Mexico on business and, while he is away, the First World War breaks out. With travel and even communication across the Atlantic shut down, Louis makes a new life in Mexico. Years later, how-ever, he returns to Germany to find his former beloved a widow and their feelings, though altered, no less engaged. Is it possible for love to survive precisely as the impossible?

Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) spent his youth studying philosophy and the history of literature in Vienna and belonged to a Pan-European cultural circle that included Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. NYRB Classics publishes his novels Chess Story, Beware of Pity, and The Post-Office Girl.

Anthea Bell is an award-winning British translator who hastranslated numerous literary works, including W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, Wladyslaw Szpilman’s The Pianist, E. T. A. Hoffmann’sThe Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, and the French Asterix comics. She lives in Cambridge, England.

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Chess Story978-159017-169-1

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nAtURe stoRIes

Jules renard

a new translation from the french by douglas Parmée


“directly, or indirectly, renard is at the origin of contemporaryliterature.” —Jean-Paul sartre

Jules Renard’s Nature Stories is a deliciously whimsical classic from the era of the great French Postimpressionist painters. Renard mingles wonder and humor in a series of miniature portraits of subjects drawn from the natural world: dogs, cats, pigs, roses, snails, trees and birds of all sorts, humans of course, and even a humble potato. Ranging from a sentence to several pages, Renard’s sketches are masterpieces of compression and description, capturing both appearance and behavior through a choice of details that makes the familiar unfamiliar and yet surprisingly true to life. Renard’s animals not only feel but speak, and one species, the swallow, even writes Hebrew. These creatures fascinate Renard, who in turn makes them fascinating to us, instilling us with the sense that everything that has a life and grows in the hand of nature is to be respected, and that every creature and being is as individual as it is interrelated.

In Douglas Parmée’s inspired new translation, Renard’s wonder-ful evocations of the natural world come to life as never before in English.

Jules Renard (1864–1910) was a French author and a member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top) and Histoires naturelles (Nature Stories). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking) and Huit jours à la campagne (Eight Days in the Countryside). His Journal was published in the United States in 2008.

Douglas Parmée (1914–2008) was a lifetime fellow of QueensCollege, Cambridge. He translated works by Flaubert, Zola, Baudelaire, and Chamfort, among others, including the NYRB Classics titles The Child by Jules Vallès and Afloat by Guy de Maupassant.

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Afloatby Guy de Maupassant

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conQUeReD cItY

Victor serGe

translated from the french and with an introduction by richard Greeman

“serge searingly evoked the epochal hopes and shattering setbacks of a generation of leftists. . . yet under the bleak-est of conditions, serge’s optimism, his humane sympathiesand generous spirit, never waned. a radical misfit, no faction,no sect could contain him; he inhabited a lonely no-man’s-land all his own. these qualities are precisely what make him such an inspiring, even moving figure.” —Bookforum

1919–1920: St. Petersburg, city of the czars, has fallen to the revolution. Camped out in the splendid palaces of the former regime, the new masters of the city seek to cement their control, even as the counter-revolutionary White Army musters its forces.Conquered City, Victor Serge’s toughest and most unrelentingnarrative, is structured like a detective story, one in which the new political regime seeks to track down and eliminate its enemies—the spies, speculators, and traitors hidden among the exhausted mass of common people.

Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red, about the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police, guns, jails, spies, treachery—in the gamble that by wielding them with purity, in a righteous cause, they can put an end to the need for terror, perhaps forever. And yet those who wield these weapons know that they are doomed. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament.

Victor Serge (1890–1947) was born to Russian anti-czarist exiles.After enduring five years of prison in Paris for his anarchist beliefs, he moved to Russia to support the Bolshevik Revolution. Serge served as the editor of the journal Communist International, but was expelled from the Communist Party and imprisoned for his condemnation of Stalin’s growing power. His deportation to Central Asia spurred international protests which succeeded in securing his freedom. Serge lived in exile for the rest of his life and died in Mexico City. His great novels, Unforgiving Years and The Case of Comrade Tulayev, are published by NYRB Classics.

Richard Greeman, the translator of four of Victor Serge’s nov-els, has written a doctoral dissertation about Serge along with numerous other studies of his work and life. A collection ofGreeman’s political essays, Dangerous Shortcuts and Vegetarian Sharks, appeared in 2007. He lives in France.

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Unforgiving Years978-159017-247-6



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MUD PIes AnD otHeR RecIPes

MarJorie winslow

illustrations by erik Blegvad

"an adorable little book with charming pictures and a dead-pan text.” —Publishers Weekly

“it has escoffier and Brillat-savarin beat a literary mile.”—Life

“heaven on earth—for the young and their readers-out-loud.”—Harper’s Bazaar

“one of the most charming picture books ever published.”—The Horn Book

A suggested menu for your next luncheon: Daisy Dip, Marigold Madness, Dandelion Soufflé, Tossed Leaves, Putty Fours, andto drink, Iced Rainspout Tea. If this doesn’t sound like some-thing you’d like to eat, never fear, this meal isn’t meant for you—it’s intended as entertainment for your imaginary friends, a party for dolls, a gift for garden sprites, or as nothing more than a lazy afternoon activity. With Mud Pies and Other Recipes, you’ll never be at a loss for something to do in your own back-yard or by the seashore because you’ll be busy scooping up sand (a filling for Stuffed Sea Shells), hunting for flower petals (which make lovely hors d’oeuvres), and collecting raindrops (they’re essential for brewing up Fried Water). Organized by course, the book includes a general discussion of yard cookery and provides detailed ingredient lists, methods for preparation, and serving suggestions.

Marjorie Winslow has lived in Arizona, California, Indiana, New York and Massachusetts and has found an abundance of doll food everywhere. She is now too old to play with dolls but hopes you aren’t.

Erik Blegvad is the distinguished illustrator of more than a hundred books for children. Some of his published credits include Kitty and Mr. Kipling: Neighbors in Vermont; The Young Hans Christian Andersen; Anna Banana and Me; and Hurry, Hurry, Mary Dear. He divides his time between London and Vermont.

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sUPPosInG

alastair reid

with new illustrations by Bob Gill

a new york review children’s collection original, by the author of Ounce Dice Trice

“alastair reid is a word magician.” —Bill Buford

When you’re a kid, there are lots of things you’re not supposed to do. But what if you didn’t really do any of those things, what if you just imagined them? Then it wouldn’t matter if your supposings were silly, impossible, or even a little naughty—because they’re all just in your head.

Alastair Reid’s book is a monument to the liberating power of unfettered thought. Here he reunites with a frequent collabora-tor, the famed illustrator and designer Bob Gill, to muse on the possibilities:

Supposing I read a book about how to change into ani-mals and said a spell and changed myself into a cat and when I climbed on the book to change myself back I found I couldn’t read. . .

Supposing I had a twin brother but we never told anyone and only went to school half the time each. . .

Supposing a very beautiful lady fell in love with me andwanted me to marry her but I just yawned and said Maybe. . .

Alastair Reid is a poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of Latin American literature. He joined the staff of The New Yorkerin 1959 and has translated works by Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. Among his many books for children are A Balloonfor a Blunderbuss, I Keep Changing, Millionaires, Supposing, andOunce Dice Trice (published by the New York Review Children’s Collection). In 2008 he published two career-spanning collec-tions of work, Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations and Outside In: Selected Prose. He lives in New York.

Bob Gill is an illustrator and graphic designer. He has won numerous awards for his graphic design work; sold illustrations to Esquire, Architectural Forum, Fortune, Seventeen, and The Nation magazines; illustrated children’s books; and designed film titles. He lives in New York.

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LonDon QUIZ

traVis elBorouGh and nick rennison

Even the most devoted Anglophile will learn something new from these four hundred fun and wide-ranging trivia questions about London’s history, monuments, architecture, famous resi-dents, place-names, notable events, and more. A delightful way to explore the city on foot or via armchair, this fun book is a perfect stocking stuffer, with history ranging from obscure lore to facts and fascinating, often humorous histories.

Here’s a sample:

Where is the only cross-eyed statue in London and who does it depict?

a) Next to the Royal Exchange in the City of London; George Peabody, the nineteenth-century American-born philanthropist b) At the point where Fetter Lane and New Fetter Lane converge; John Wilkes, the eighteenth-century politician c) Islington Green; Sir Hugh Myddleton, the seventeenth- century entrepreneur

Answer: b) John Wilkes really did have a severe squint, as reproduced in the statue, but despite his looks, he was a leg-endary and eloquent womanizer who once said that, when meeting an attractive woman, it took him only ten minutes “to talk away his face.”

What drowned nine people in Tottenham Court Road in October 1814?

a) A water flood from a nearby reservoir b) A milk flood from a nearby dairy c) A beer flood from a nearby brewery

Answer: c) A beer flood. A huge vat in the Horseshoe Brewery burst its hoops and ruptured other vats standing near it. More than a million liters of beer swept through the walls of the brewery and into the streets, carrying away a house and drowning nine unfortunates. The site of the Horseshoe Brewery is now occupied by the Dominion Theatre.

A former bookseller and Web-site editor, Travis Elborough’sbooks include The Bus We Loved: London’s Affair with theRoutemaster and The Vinyl Countdown. Nick Rennison has worked as a writer, editor, and bookseller. He is the author of the London Blue Plaque Guide and The Book of London Lists, described by the London Evening Standard as a book that “can teach even the most die-hard Londoner something they didn’t know.” They both live in London.

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ItALY DIsH BY DIsH

Monica cesari sartoni

a new translation from the italian by susan simon

the new translation of Mangia Italiano, the definitive and essential italian-food resource never before published in english

Italy Dish by Dish describes more than 3,000 dishes you’ll findthroughout every region of Italy. Even if you speak fluent Italian, regional terms for food and dishes can be confusing. No longer—with this translator you’ll know exactly what’s on the menu, how it’s cooked, what ingredients it contains, andhow it fits into la cucina italiana. Lovers of good food andItalian culture will find this guide an irresistible and indis-pensable stew of culinary information, definitions, and locallore. And any cook will soon realize that the detailed descrip-tions of hundreds of dishes also serve as mini recipes that can easily be followed to create hundreds of authentic meals at home.

Monica Cesari Sartoni has had a long career in the world of Italian gastronomy. She was the educational director of the prestigious school of La Cucina Italiana and was awarded the distinguished Commandeur de la Commanderie des Cordons Bleus de France. She is the author of several books, including La Cucina Bolognese. Along with organizing numerous food exhibitions and shows, she has contributed to many well-known Italian food magazines, including Sale e Pepe, Cucina Moderna, and A Tavola. She is currently the senior editor of Cucina No Problem.

Susan Simon is the author of five cookbooks, including The Nantucket Table and The Nantucket Holiday Table, Contorni: Authentic Italian Side Dishes for All Seasons, Insalate: Authentic Italian Salads for All Seasons, and most recently, with chefs Ron and Colleen Suhanosky, Pasta Sfoglia. She writes a bimonthly food chat column for The Nantucket Inquirer & Mirror and contributes to Nantucket Today. She lived in Italy for eight years and currently lives in New York City. Her book, Shopping in Marrakech, is published by The Little Bookroom.

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BIscottI reciPes froM the aMerican acadeMy in roMe

Mona talBott

Photographs by Matthew Monteith and annie schlechter

The Rome Sustainable Food Project, a program devoted to pro-viding organic, local, and sustainable meals for the community of the American Academy in Rome, has launched a delicious revolution to rethink institutional dining. Headed by chef Mona Talbott, a Chez Panisse alum, and guided by Alice Waters,the menus have given rise to a new, authentic cuisine inspiredby la cucina romana, Chez Panisse, and the collective experienceof those working in the AAR kitchen. Biscotti is the first book in the series. Each volume, covering a single subject, contains authentic, simple recipes for favorite dishes served at the acad-emy’s communal table, narrated with carefully explained tech-niques and methods—suitable for both the home cook and the institutional kitchen.

Our first bite into this book project is a sweet one, focusing on fifty biscotti and dolcetti (cookies and sweets). Subsequent vol-umes in the series will include muffins and scones; pasta, long and short; vegetables; preserves; and more.

Mona Talbott’s first food-related job was working in large reforestation camps in Canada. After culinary school she was hired by Alice Waters to work at Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard program. She later worked at Eli Zabar’s Vinegar Factory and EAT stores in New York. She consulted for HillaryClinton at her home in Chappaqua, New York. In 1999, Talbottbegan working for photographer Annie Leibovitz, and in 2004, she was hired by Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project to design a children’s gardening and cooking program. Since 2007, Talbott has been executive chef at the Rome Sustainable Food Project at the American Academy in Rome. She has pub-lished articles and recipes in Saveur, Organic Style, and The New York Times.

Matthew Monteith earned an MFA from the Yale School ofArt. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a fellow at the AmericanAcademy in Rome. He lives in New York City.

Annie Schlechter has been working as a photographer since 1998. Her clients include The World of Interiors, Wallpaper, House Beautiful, Real Simple, W magazine, Travel & Leisure, and many more.

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In teARInG HAste letters Between deBorah deVonshire and Patrick leiGh ferMor

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“spanning half a century, bursting with wit and conviviality . . . the result is surely one of the great 20th-century corre-spondences.” —The Observer (london)

In the spring of 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, young-est of the six legendary Mitford sisters—invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires’ house in Ireland. The halcyon visit sparked a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but highly entertaining letters.

There rarely have been such contrasting styles: Debo, unashamedphilistine and self-professed illiterate (though suspected by her friends of being a secret reader), darts from subject to subject, dashing off letters in her “whizz-bang planchette style”; while Paddy, polyglot, widely read prose virtuoso, replies in the fluent, polished manner that has earned him recognition as one of the finest writers in the English language.

Prose notwithstanding, the two friends have much in common:a huge enjoyment of life, youthful high spirits, warmth, gener-osity, and lack of malice. There are glimpses of President Kennedy’sinauguration, weekends at Sandringham, stag hunting in France, filming with Errol Flynn, and, above all, life at Chatsworth, the great house that Debo spent much of her life restoring, and of Paddy in the house that he and his wife, Joan, designed and built on the southernmost peninsula of Greece.

Charlotte Mosley lives in Paris and has worked as a publisherand journalist. She is the editor of Love from Nancy: The Lettersof Nancy Mitford, The Letters of Nancy Mitford and EvelynWaugh, and The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters.

Patrick Leigh Fermor is the author of many books, includingthe NYRB Classics A Time to Keep Silence, Between the Woods and the Water, A Time of Gifts, Mani, and Roumeli. He now divides his time between Greece and England.

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire is the last surviving of the six noted Mitford sisters. She became chatelaine and house-keeper of one of England’s greatest and best-loved houses, but following her husband Andrew’s death in 2004, she moved to a village on the Chatsworth Estate, where she now lives.

Deborah Devonshire

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