Barbara Epler's guest appearances

Barbara Epler

The Virtual Memories Show

Tank Magazine Podcast

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

Charlie Fox

Peter Schjeldahl

Kurt Andersen

David Shields

Bob Stein

Eddy Portnoy

Pankaj Mishra

Andrew Parker

Gary Clark

Bill Griffith

Joe Kennedy

Paul Smith

Caleb Crain

Scott McCloud

Judith Butler

OwlTail

We invited publishing superstar Barbara Epler of New Directions to make a selection of books for our Summer Reader. She tells Tina about how she built her list and why every writer on it is a genius.  Read extracts from Barbara’s selections in the latest issue of the magazine.

We invited publishing superstar Barbara Epler of New Directions to make a selection of books for our Summer Reader. She tells Tina about how she built her list and why every writer on it is a genius.  Read extracts from Barbara’s selections in the <a href="/issue" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">latest issue</a> of the magazine.

Barbara Epler talks her book selections

Doon Arbus

A conversation about the power of editors and curators, and all that happens behind the scenes. Doon Arbus, the author of the new novel The Caretaker, and her editor Barbara Epler, the head of the famed publisher New Directions, tell the origin stories of Arbus’s debut novel about the caretaker of an eccentric museum, and the tiny literary house that became the first American publisher of Neruda, Bolaño, W.G. Sebald, Anne Carson, and many more.The Caretaker is available now.

A conversation about the power of editors and curators, and all that happens behind the scenes. Doon Arbus, the author of the new novel The Caretaker, and her editor Barbara Epler, the head of the famed publisher New Directions, tell the origin stories of Arbus’s debut novel about the caretaker of an eccentric museum, and the tiny literary house that became the first American publisher of Neruda, Bolaño, W.G. Sebald, Anne Carson, and many more. The Caretaker is<a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-caretaker/#/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> available now</a>.

Episode 26 | Doon Arbus and Barbara Epler

New Directions publisher Barbara Epler joins the show to talk about her accidental career, the pros and cons of New Directions' size, the Moneyball aspect of publishing works in translation, surviving a Nobel crush, the importance of secondary rights, the language she most wishes she could read, the novel she promises never to write, the book whose success surprised her the most, where WG Sebald's work might have gone, and more! This is part of our Festival Neue Literatur series; Barbara is the 2017 recipient of the FNL's Friedrich Ulfers Prize! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

<a href="http://ndbooks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Directions</a> publisher Barbara Epler joins the show to talk about her accidental career, the pros and cons of New Directions' size, the Moneyball aspect of publishing works in translation, surviving a <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2011/transtromer-facts.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nobel crush</a>, the importance of secondary rights, the language she most wishes she could read, the novel she promises never to write, the book whose success surprised her the most, where <a href="http://www.ndbooks.com/author/W._G._Sebald/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WG Sebald's</a> work might have gone, and more! This is part of our <a href="http://festivalneueliteratur.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Festival Neue Literatur</a> series; Barbara is the 2017 recipient of the FNL's <a href="http://festivalneueliteratur.org/prize/recipient-2017/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Friedrich Ulfers Prize</a>! • More info <a href="http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-208-barbara-epler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">at our site</a> • Support The Virtual Memories Show via <a href="http://patreon.com/vmspod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a> or <a href="http://paypal.me/vmspod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paypal</a>

Episode 208 - Barbara Epler