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 […]
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 Los Angeles Times recently sat down with Delbanco to discuss his latest work, Lastingness: the Art of Old Age and the link between creativity and longevity. From the article by Scott Martelle: Nicholas Delbanco sits on a swivel chair in his second-floor writer’s study, his back to the desk, knees bent slightly as he […]
Nicholas Delbanco’s latest work, Lastingness: The Art of Old Age, was recently featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” From the feature: In 1928, when poet William Butler Yeats was in his 60s, he wrote “Sailing to Byzantium,” in which he laments, An aged man is but a paltry thing / A tattered coat upon a […]
Nicholas Delbanco was recently featured in The Washington Post’s books section in a piece titled, “The Writing Life: Nicholas Delbanco.” For this feature, Delbanco contributed an essay titled, “Remembering the Reys,” and was interviewed by Marie Arana. That essay, as well as the podcast for the interview, are both available on The Washington Post website. […]
