Ann Kjellberg
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| Citizenship | American |
| Education | B.A. in English (1984) |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Editor |
| Known for | Editor at The New York Review of Books (29 years) Founder of Little Star Journal and Book Post Literary executor of Joseph Brodsky |
Ann Kjellberg is an American editor.[1] [2] [3] She worked for 29 years at The New York Review of Books and founded Little Star Journal and the book-reviewing newsletter Book Post.[4][5][6][7] She is the literary executor of the poet Joseph Brodsky.[8]
Career
Kjellberg attended Yale University, where she studied with Harold Bloom, graduating with a degree in English in 1984.[9] While in college Kjellberg worked for David R. Godine Publisher and Yale University Press. After college, she joined the editorial staff of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, where she edited Caryl Phillips' first book The European Tribe and Kathryn Davis' first novel, Labrador, which had been received as an unsolicited manuscript. She served as personal assistant to Susan Sontag and Joseph Brodsky.[4]
In 1988 she joined the editorial staff of The New York Review of Books, in the office of Robert Silvers, remaining there until 2017, becoming senior, then contributing editor.[10][11] She also served as the American editor for Artes, the magazine of the Swedish Academy.[12]
On Brodsky's death in 1996, she became his literary executor, editing several editions of his work. With Brodsky's widow Maria Brodsky and other friends, she founded the Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund, which from 1996 to 2020 sent Russian writers on creative sojourns in Italy; she has served with Maria Brodsky as a director of the fund since its inception.[13] Brodsky Fund Fellows include Maria Stepanova, Elena Fanailova, Aleksandr Skidan, Elena Shvarts, and Shamshad Abdullaev.[14][15]
In 2009, Kjellberg founded the annual print literary magazine Little Star, for which she edited seven issues.[16][17][18] Little Star featured the work of Derek Walcott, Wisława Szymborska, Seamus Heaney, Les Murray, Ann Beattie, Sigrid Nunez, Charles Simic, Gary Snyder, Marilyn Hacker, Tomasz Różycki, Alice Fulton, Jean Valentine, James Kelman, Padgett Powell, Paul Muldoon, Jamaica Kincaid, Adam Zagajewski, Eliot Weinberger, C. K. Williams, Mark Strand, Caleb Crain, Lydia Davis, Carl Phillips, Joy Williams, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, W. G. Sebald, Durs Grünbein, and Tim Parks, among others. John Banville called it, "A very fine venture indeed, everything such a magazine should be."[19]
In 2017, Kjellberg founded a newsletter-based book review, Book Post.[5][20] Book Post has featured work by Jamaica Kincaid, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Lucy Ellmann, Ian Frazier, Joy Williams, Calvin Baker, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Padgett Powell, Edward Mendelson, Mona Simpson, John Guare, Charles Simic, Álvaro Enrigue, David Leavitt, Durs Grünbein, John Banville, Wendell Berry, Marina Warner, and Zoë Heller, among others.[21]
Kjellberg taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College.[22] Kjellberg has also been a Director's Guest at Civitella Ranieri.[23]
Publications
- Editor: Brodsky, Joseph (2000). Collected Poems in English. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374528386.
- Editor: Brodsky, Joseph (2001). Nativity Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374219406.
- Editor: Brodsky, Joseph (2021). Selected Poems, 1968-1996. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374600365.
References
- ↑ "Episode 56: Ann Kjellberg on the Importance and Future of Book Reviewing".
- ↑ "At All Costs: Dave Eggers, Dan Wells, Ann Kjellberg, & Paul Yamazaki".
- ↑ "Ann Kjellberg - Beyond the Zero podcast".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Wit, Wisdom, and Warnings from a Veteran of the New York Literary World".
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Former 'NYRB' Editor Launches 'Book Post'".
- ↑ "And Yet, The Books Always Take Over Documentary". 19 November 2019.
- ↑ "Editor Ann Kjellberg '84 visits Yale to speak about books in a digitized society". 8 November 2023.
- ↑ "His English: Ann Kjellberg on Brodsky's self-translations".
- ↑ "R.I.P. Harold Bloom (1930–2019): "He saw reading as a great human enterprise, an engagement of the passions, a heroic endeavor."".
- ↑ "Farewell, Robert Silvers (1929–2017): "unadulterated gold"".
- ↑ "The Book Post USA - The Short Fuse Podcast".
- ↑ "The Booky Man: Little Star and Loose Change".
- ↑ "Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Fund - About Us".
- ↑ "Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Fund".
- ↑ Brodsky, Maria Sozzani (9 March 2000). "The First Brodsky Fellowships". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 47, no. 4.
- ↑ "PBS A Little Star Is Born". PBS. 4 January 2011. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ "Word for Word: 'Little Star' journal and app shining bright". The Irish Times.
- ↑ "About Little Star".
- ↑ "Happy New Year! And a few passing thoughts on the kindness of strangers..."
- ↑ "Seven literary(ish) Substacks you should subscribe to, stat". 30 August 2024.
- ↑ "Book Post USA".
- ↑ "Creative Writing Faculty Through the Years".
- ↑ "Civitella Ranieri - Ann Kjellberg, Director's Guest".
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