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Please join me, Ann Goldstein, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat for a discussion of Italian writers and anti-fascism at 6pm on Feb. 1 at Rizzoli
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and Elsa and I are doing a little jig for joy! If you are in New York City on November 9 at 6:30, please join me at NYU's Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò for a presentation of the book with Ann Goldstein and Franco Baldasso. From Vivan Gornick in The New York Times: Ferrante Before Ferrante …
SAVE THE DATE: Nov. 9 An Event for Elsa Morante’s LIES AND SORCERY at NYU’s Casa Italiana with me, Ann Goldstein, and Franco Baldasso
“[In Lies and Sorcery] I discovered that an entirely female story—entirely women’s desires and ideas and feelings—could be compelling and, at the same time, have great literary value.”—Elena FerranteElsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she most admired—and yet her work remains …
Elena Ferrante, Tomb Raider: My latest review @airmailweekly with a shout out to the elegant, awesome translator Ann Goldstein whose name should most definitely be on the cover of this book! #NameTheTranslator
“Writing,” Elena Ferrante tells us in her engaging, slyly disruptive new collection of essays, expertly translated by Ann Goldstein, “is entering an immense cemetery where every tomb is waiting to be profaned.” The tombs, Ferrante suggests, are filled with our literary patriarchs, the great men who have dominated literature since writing began. The profaners are …
Silver Linings (60) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Big Read
At a semi-regular Zoom quarantini with Ann Goldstein and Mary Norris, something I look forward to all week (although what's a week anymore?), I learned from Ann that Mary had recently written about The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Big Read. What's that? I asked, intrigued. Mary told me, humbly and with a laugh, to …
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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories Event with Jhumpa Lahiri at The Center for Fiction this Friday
A celebration of the Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories with editor Jhumpa Lahiri and translators Ann Goldstein, Jenny McPhee, and Michael F. Moore. This will be fun! And fascinating. The stories are each intriguing and surprising and Jhumpa is so passionate about all things Italian, but especially the language and literary tradition. Plus The …
Jenny McPhee 