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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 …

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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 …

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