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| An independent publisher for 60 years, New Directions was founded when president and publisher James Laughlin issued the first New Directions anthology in 1936. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalls. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful." The anthologies were intended "as a place where experimentalists could test their inventions by publication." Novels, plays, poetry and story collections soon followed. At the core of ND's modernist backlist are early ND authors Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Tennessee Williams. Interested in issuing influential foreign writers in translation (if poetry, often in bilingual editions), ND has helped promote in the U.S. the works of Celine, Apollinaire, Mishima, Rilke, Kafka, Montale, Lorca, Nabokov, the 1990 Nobel Prize Laureate Octavio Paz, and most recently Antonio Tabucchi, Shusaku Endo, and Bei Dao.
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A symposium exploring the nature of literary history and biography and the role of the archival and oral record in constructing them. Friday, 9 February 2001, 4pm
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Starting and continuing in the service of verbal revolution, ND has also reprinted authors who otherwise might have been undeservedly unavailable to us. When no one would print F. Scott Fitzgerald's 
W.C. Williams, together with reissues of short modern classics such as Muriel Spark's 
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