Monday Memo

This week we're talking about:

• The Beach edit, a portfolio of features from our archive. From beach vacations to seaside journeys, the collection is unlocked and open for all to read in the coming week. What to listen to while on the way to the beach: Leslie Jamison on Bookworm.
• APS contributor Jennifer Kronovet's new press for poetry in translation, Circumference Books, which "will publish its first two books in 2019, with Camouflage by Lupe Gómez, translated from Galician by Erín Moure, and Tell Me, Kenyalang the selected poems of Kulleh Grasi, translated from Malay and Iban by Pauline Fan. Grasi’s will be the first book by an Iban poet published in English."
• In Italy, Helena Janeczek is the first female author to win the prestigious Strega Prize in fifteen years, for La Ragazza con la Leica, or The Girl with the Leica, a fictionalized account of the life of female war reporter Gerda Taro.
• The rise (again) of Independent Magazines, chronicled at The Guardian. A new favorite of ours is the wine magazine (and also London wine bar), Noble Rot. In Brooklyn, the Press Play Fair at Pioneer Works showcases new independent media and explores relevant themes, including "sanctuary."
• The cool retreat of air conditioning and imaginative transport of going to the movies: Film Forum reopens August 1. Tomorrow night at FIAF, "Burning Bright: New French Filmmakers" wraps up with a screening of The Wild Boys (Les garçons sauvages), in which "a group of wild boys—all played by actresses—are exiled from their expensive school after a brutal transgression. They are sent to a mysterious island, sentenced to hard labor, left to their own devices, and eventually transformed. For his debut feature, experimental filmmaker Bertrand Mandico draws on William Burroughs and Jules Verne to create a fantastical, erotic dream world shot alternately in black and white and a wash of jewel-toned colors."

Image: Baia dei Turchi in the Salento region of Puglia in Southern Italy, which our marketing and development director Lauren Cerand recently visited. If you're ever in the area, make sure to visit Bros Restaurant in Lecce.