<DIV><p>&ldquo;The novelist and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz has carefully rendered these subtle currents of belief and sensibility, moving always beneath an airy conversational style, in dexterous prose.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Virginia Quarterly Review</I> on <I>A Place to Live and other selected essays</I> by Natalia Ginzburg</p><p>When German author W.G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through pieces culled from essays, interviews, and reviews, award-winning translator and author Lynn Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the late Sebald, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory, and dislocation in post-Nazi Europe. With contributions from poet, essayist, and translator Charles Simic, <I>New Republic</I> editor Ruth Franklin, <I>Bookworm</I> radio host Michael Silverblatt, and more, <I>The Emergence of Memory</I> offers Sebald&rsquo;s own voice in interviews between 1997 up to a month before his death in 2001. Also included are cogent accounts of almost all of Sebald&rsquo;s books, thematically linked to events in the contributors&rsquo; own lives.</p><p>Contributors include Carole Angier, Joseph Cuomo, Ruth Franklin, Michael Hofmann, Arthur Lubow, Tim Parks, Michael Silverblatt, Charles Simic, and Eleanor Wachtel.</p><p> <b>Lynne Sharon Schwartz</b> is the author of nineteen works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and memoir. She has been nominated for the National Book Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and she won the PEN Renato Poggioli Award for Translation in 1991.</p></DIV>