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Frank on the Classics
“I never really liked the title classics: the word has become debased, perfect for shoes and cookies and golden oldies. In so far as it does retain a meaning it suggests canonicity, and though I have nothing against canonicity, the category isn’t coextensive with that of books that are still worth reading. And from the start I wanted us to mix up old and new books, wanted to bring out connections between the past and the present. I suppose you might describe the books we do not so much as classics, with its ring of the classroom, as books that are—so we hope—still in the repertory—thinking of the book as a kind of score and of reading as kind of mental performance.”
- Edwin Frank, editor of NYRB Classics, interviewed at Litminds blog
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