I. The poet David Lehman, who will help introduce the novelist Cees Nooteboom on February 28 at the New School's Tishman Auditorium, notes a nomenclatural gray area. "I recently talked to John Ashbery, Paul Auster, Richard Howard," he says. "All of them know him, and all of them give a different pronunciation of his name: Kees, Seess, Jess, Cess." The reading, he jokes, "will finally give me a chance to resolve a major literary dispute." As for the last name, his guess is "Not-a-boom"—a rendering to make even a bullish publisher wince. Tiziano Perez, of the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, clarifies:... More >>>