Friday Favorites: Nov. 7
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This week’s recommendation comes from Edward Burlingame, former publisher and Editor in Chief at Harper & RowÂÂ and founder of The Adventure Library. He is opening up his personal library to the North Salem community next weekend for a unique fundraiser offering tours of six libraries in private homes. The Nov. 16 event will benefit the North Salem library, Ruth Keeler Memorial Library.
In advance of the Private Tours of Private Spaces, my colleague Elizabeth Ganga got her own tour of the library. While gazing at his floor-to-ceiling shelves and shelves of books, she asked the longtime editor to suggest a noteworthy book to others.
He especially likes “The Radetzky March” (1932), one of the best known novels by a prolific author Joseph March. A German journalist, he fled the county in 1933 heading first to Paris. He then moved around Europe from Vienna to Amsterdam and back to Paris where he died in 1939. “Radetzky” is about four generations of an Austro-Hungarian family. It seems it wasn’t translated into English until 2002.
Burlingame told Ganga that he appreciates Roth’s writing and considers him a largely forgotten German writer that deserves more attention.
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