Who is the most /lit/ publisher and why is it NYRB?
>>8196639
NYBR, Pushkin Press and Every Man are top tier.
I only own Skylark and Warlock when it comes to NYBR but do you recommend picking up anything else by them? I plan on getting a good amount but I own the Vintage edition of Stoner.
>>8196643
I've bought nyrb classics with no prior knowledge of the books and have never been disappointed. 12/12 so far with this method.
They're fine but jesus the circle jerk for NYRB on this board is unbearable. It's a way for hipster pseuds to get their "obscure" novels literally spoonfed to them.
>>8196657
From what I can tell this place is full of people that have no friends that read. Who are these people trying to impress with their "obscure" books?
The feel, paper quality and selective publishing make nyrb great.
>>8196657
god forbid i get enthusiastic about a high quality source of lesser known but interesting books
now i feel like such a pseud
>>8196689
This answer just proved you're really one. Props.
vintage contemporary is the only answer. nyrb is garbage
>>8196676
But it's people like >>8196655 that make it not about the books themselves but about the "brand name". It's the complete absence of taste, as opposed to someone using it as a way to get a formerly out of print book of an author they're interested in.
Because really what is an NYRB book? What do Lucky Jim and Chess Story have in common other than a publisher?
>>8196704
they're both good?
>>8196704
How do you get interested in an author you have never read?
>>8196716
I dunno, how did you know you'd like gay porn before you started watching it?
>>8196721
it's not about books, it's about IDEOLOGY!!!
>>8196721
but don't you understand, their taste isn't authentic enough
>>8196731
does that make you a hipster hipster cause you talk down to the hipster that talks down to hipsters?
>>8196740
how many layers of irony are you on right now bruh
>>8196704
So anyone that gets a nyrb subscription is a pseud?
They're not all worth reading but I think anyone could look through their catalogue and find plenty of books that would interest them. They have a great aesthetic going too, which the more cynical crowd would probably ascribe to just marketing and they're probably partially right but I don't really care, it's a good design. And some people basically fetishize them but ok, that happens with all products.
8/10
>>8196754
now this guy's got a level head on his cock
Penguin Classics
>>8196756
Sometimes I just try to find the Golden Mean.
I like New Directions a lot.
>>8196639
I literally go to the NYRB book catalouge, sort by best seller, and buy the next book I haven't read (sometimes I buy up to 5 at a time). I've done this about 12 times. I have a shelf of just NYRB books, about 36 in all. I've only been really disappointed 2-3 times, but it was more due to ideological spooks than anything else.
>>8196731
I hate nyrb because most of the books they publish are shit books and have shit reviews and have shit scores on amazon and have shit scores on goodreads.
>>8196795
I don't mind that penguin classics are pretty flimsy, it's not like I'm reading while skiing down a goddamn mountain, it's just that after reading when you set the book down the fucking cover won't stay shut. annoys me to no end.
>>8196827
you have autism
>>8196827
That other Anon is right you might have some form of Autism because the cover staying shut shouldn't bother you.
>>8196827
I just had to throw out two penguin classics because their covers came off entirely and the spine was falling apart underneath that. I had bought them used, so who knows how the previous owners had treated them, but they're literally the only books I've had to throw away due to damage, aside from water damage from flooding.
To be fair to the dissenters nyrb has some few hundred books which are mostly out of print else where published, it's like being a jazz collector and you have a label which reprints old somewhat obscure lps, a good place to go for forgotten things.
Ignoring nyrb is ignoring a large chunk of /lit/ that wasn't instantly hailed as classics or forgotten to time, it only deprives someone of good things.
>>8196974
It's just rage over an invisible spook of a person who buys nyrb exclusively and hasn't even touched Moby Dick or Dante or whatever.
>>8196657
>It's a way for hipster pseuds to get their "obscure" novels literally spoonfed to them.
yep, but what's wrong with that? or else id never find out about them.
>>8196639
I like New Directions more. Dalkey Archive would be cool in theory if they had their shit together (but they don't).
