(Ignore the dates! The campaign has been extended!) As many of you know by now, way back in 2003 my sister Joan had an idea for a public school based on the simple idea that if you can write well, you can do anything. So she pulled together a founding team and we somehow managed …
Reading in Translation Devotes Entire Exquisite Issue to Natalia Ginzburg (including an interview with me).
The brilliant editor of Reading in Translation, Stiliana Milkova, has put together a stunning, extraordinary issue of all things Ginzburg for us to read, contemplate, and linger over. She has also recently published the fascinating book Elena Ferrante as World Literature which I urge any Ferrante lover to check out. Fellow translator Ann Goldstein has …
What My Super-Creative Mega-Inspiring Friends (And Family) Are Up To: Exquisite Pandemic
Editor: Rick Whitaker Associate Editor: Beverly Brooks Exquisite Pandemic February 2021 Contributors: photographs by jonathan dawe Jessica Gould Sayeeda copeland Minc Michael Hickins Francesco di Benedetto Walter Holland Ilka Scobie Tim Shaner Zachary Pace Naomi Bess Leimsider Giuseppe Gullo Michael Carroll Mark …
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Join us for a discussion of Natalia Ginzburg’s Family Lexicon at Trinity College Dublin (virtually) on Feb 16
Author Natalia Ginzburg photographed with journalist husband, Leone Ginzburg. Coming to you live from Trinity College Dublin, Prof. Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, the former Head of Italian at the College, will be introducing and leading the discussion of Natalia Ginzburg’s 1960 Italian novel, Family Lexicon.And I will be there because any chance I get to talk about this astonishing …
‘Mind expanding’, ‘timeless and timely’ announcing the 2020 Society of Authors Translation Prizes shortlists
The judges said of this year’s shortlist: The field for the John Florio Prize this year was immensely rich, showing the breadth and depth of contemporary Italian writing, as well as the potential for rediscovery of forgotten fragments of the literary tradition. Through the outstanding work of their translators, I enjoyed reading everything from 19th-century …
Victoria de Grazia: “The Perfect Fascist”
Please join me for a story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy on Sunday, November 1st from 3:00pm-4:00pm at the virtual Princeton Public Library A conversation between Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University, and author and translator Jenny McPhee about de Grazia’s recently published book. Through the story …
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Support the Abbey of Passignano
Dear Friends, Family, Italophiles, Art and Architecture Lovers, Good People, I find myself for the past few months in the Tuscan countryside riding out what, on a good day, can feel like the end of the world (bad days have me traipsing through one circle or another of Dante's Inferno). In any case, if the …
Malaparte’s “Diary of a Foreigner in Paris”
Thursday, October 1st, 2020 at 5:00pm ET Jenny McPhee (NYU)in conversation withStephen Twilley (translator) andEdmund White (author)Franco Baldasso (Bard) New York Review Books Classics has recently published a new translation by Stephen Twilley of Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris, the journal in which the Italian writer and correspondent recounts his stay in the French capital after World War II. The translator …
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Confronting July 4th: Support the Coalition to Honor Black and Indigenous Activists
My great friend, the activist Anne Maguire, is part of the Coalition to honor black and indigenous activists who have organized a march and rally on July 4th in NYC. Here is the plan: "The world appears to be changing very quickly, but of course it isn’t. There are decades (centuries, really) of activism behind …
