Scrittori di fronte al male: Riflessioni su letteratura e politica

My first book of nonfiction, a collection of disparate essays and articles written between 2001 and 2008, examines important 20th century writers such as Albert Camus, Ignazio Silone, Curzio Malaparte, Beppe Fenoglio, Jean-Paul Sartre, Peter Handke, Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Mayakovsky. To purchase a copy go here. For Italian reviews of the book, please click here and here.

Proceedings of the International Conference: National Identity, Historical Memory and the Humanities

This volume contains the published proceedings from a conference held in Florence, Italy in April 2008 on “National Identity, Historical Memory and the Humanities.” I helped organize the event and contributed a paper entitled “La fine dell’Arcadia: Scrittori americani in Italia (1915–1965).” Single copies of the published proceedings for this conference are available for free from the National Endowment for the Humanities, while supplies last. Please submit your request via e-mail to info@neh.gov with the name of the conference and your name and full mailing address. Please allow up to six weeks for delivery.

Don Camalèo: A Novel About A Chameleon

Coming in 2010: My English-language translation of Curzio Malaparte’s 1926–27 novel Don Camalèo. To learn more about the novel’s historical and literary importance, click here. To read my translation of Malaparte’s 1946 preface to the novel as well as the novel’s opening chapter click here.

Curzio Malaparte: A Life

Work in progress: Publication date to be determined. You’ll find biographical information on Malaparte (1898–1957) here.