In 2009, NYRB Classics republished A Meaningful Life, making it widely available for the first time in decades.

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The second-life success of A Meaningful Life is emblematic of what makes NYRB Classics so valuable to publishing and readers.

FORBES: A Meaningful Publisher

And while major publishers struggle with bloated release schedules and rampant costs in a shifting media landscape, NYRB Classics succeeds as a lean model of consistency, quality and reader engagement.

FORBES: A Meaningful Publisher

Thirty-odd years later, though, author Jonathan Lethem wrote gushingly about it, it was republished by NYRB Classics, and a younger generation that rode into urban areas on waves of gentrification could identify with its subject matter.

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