Nicola’s Books February 15, 2012 7 pm Delbanco will be appearing at Nicola’s Books in Ann Arbor this February 15, 2012. Join us for a discussion regarding the paper back release of his latest non-fiction book, Lastingness and for the release of the Sherbrookes trilogy, now collected into one volume. For more information, please visit […]
Elena and Nicholas Delbanco spoke on NPR’s Weekend Edition on the upcoming auction of their family’s famed Stradivarius cello known as the Countess of Stainlein. Download the interview » Listen to the interview on NPR » See Also: “Selling a 300-Year-Old Cello” on the The New York Times website »
Delbanco was featured prominently in a recent article in The New York Times: By DANIEL J. WAKIN Published: January 13, 2012 On a cold day last winter, an ailing Bernard Greenhouse, wearing an elegant bathrobe and attached to oxygen, was wheeled into the living room of his Cape Cod home, which was festooned with paper […]
Delbanco will give a reading as part of the the Metro Detroit Book and Author Society’s 79th Annual Luncheon on Monday, October 17 at Burton Manor in Livonia.
Delbanco will be reading at the Brattleboro Literary Festival this coming Saturday (October 15th) at 3PM. The Festival is a three-day celebration of those who read books, those who write books, and of the books themselves. Located in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, the Festival includes readings, panel discussions, and special events, featuring emerging and established authors. […]
By Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times There were complaints when the aging William Butler Yeats took poems from his youth and revised them. The complaints were so strenuous that Yeats even wrote a response, in verse: The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at […]
THE difference, for the traveler, between a first and repeated visit is crucial. To “go back” is not “to go.” Yet old, familiar places retain a kind of magic, and all the more so when the memories are shared. For our 40th wedding anniversary year, my wife, Elena, and I returned to the place where […]
Reeve Lindbergh recently reviewed Lastingness: the Art of Old Age for The Washington Post. From the review: Nicholas Delbanco’s new book examines creative achievement in old age, though the author acknowledges that our culture concerns itself primarily with the young. We seem, nonetheless, ambivalent about age, expecting our leaders to evince a certain maturity. Delbanco, […]
March 9th, 2011, the Author’s Forum presents Lastingness: The Art of Old Age A conversation with Nicholas Delbanco and Keith Taylor 5:30-7:00 PM, Hatcher Graduate Library RM 100, Library Gallery 913 S. University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Book signing and sale courtesy of Nicola’s Books. Free and open to the public. Don’t miss this […]
Lastingness was featured in a recent article for the San Francisco Chronicle titled “Books About Art and Aging.” The article, written by Jane Juska, starts: “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us,” writes Freud in “Civilization and Its Discontents.” “Palliative measures” are required. One such measure is a receptivity to art. (Another […]
