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Daniele Mastrogiacomo on tour
Foreign correspondent for Italy's La Repubblica, Daniele Mastrogiacomo was on assignment in Afghanistan in 2007 when he, his driver, and his interpreter were kidnapped by a group of Taliban. The weeks... -
Publishers Weekly recommends A Kind of Intimacy as "Pick of the Week"
Crazy, in love. In her debut novel, Ashworth takes on a formidable task: an insane yet sympathetic protagonist whose efforts at self-help spell disaster. Annie Fairhurst is a socially inept and obese... -
A Writer's Residency at Blackwell Bookshop
Novelist and visual artist Roma Tearne will be writer in residence at Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford, for one week beginning on April 26th 2010. The inventive Roma will be stirring up ideas and provoking... -
The Elegance of the Hedgehog shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Cllr. Emer Costello, Lord Mayor of Dublin and Patron of the Award, and Deirdre Ellis-King, Dublin City Librarian, take the shortlist on a spin on a Dublin Bike (Jason Clarke Photography) The International... -
Southern California Public Radio: "Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo to speak in Los Angeles April 23."
It was a story that shocked the world and an image that shook journalists. It’s a screen grab from Italian RAI state television from 2007. It shows Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, his... -
Homage to Izzo in New York Times Restaurant Review
from The New York Times April 7, 2010 by Sam Sifton Jean-Claude Izzo wrote a terrific series of French noir novels, a Marseille trilogy of sun-baked bad guys and beautiful women, smart cops... -
Alina Bronsky at Words Without Borders
Words Without Borders translates, publishes, and promotes the finest contemporary international literature. The PEN World Voices Festival launches its sixth annual celebration of global literature at... -
Bronsky Bookseller Buzz
Alina Bronsky's Broken Glass Park has been exciting booksellers and book clubs leaders during the days leading up to its release this week. We thought we'd share some of the comments we've been receiving... -
Interview Valerio Massimo Manfredi on www.i-italy.org
On March 23 novelist, archeologist, topographer of the ancient world and screenplay writer Valerio Massimo Manfredi presented his latest historical thriller, The Ides of March, to... -
La Repubblica: "An Interview with Alina Bronsky"
The Old Testament reads: “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” Sascha, a seventeen-year-old Russian immigrant in Germany has two dreams: to kill her stepfather Vadim, and to write a book...