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 …

CURZIO MALAPARTE: THE CRUELTY OF LITERATURE BOOK LAUNCH with Franco Baldasso at The Center for Italian Modern Art in Soho

24 SEPTEMBER 2019 / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CIMA is thrilled to host a book launch and conversation with the author of “Curzio Malaparte: The cruelty of Literature,” Franco Baldasso and NYRB translator and novelist Jenny McPhee Curzio Malaparte is today at the center of an international debate reappraising his work as a key …