Join best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn as he presents his latest book Three Rings, just published by University of Virginia Press, over Zoom. Combining memoir, biography, fiction, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the very…
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Louise DeSalvo A Celebration of the Life and Work of Louise DeSalvo (1942-2018) On the occasion of the publication of the paperback edition of Personal Effects Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo (2019, Fordham University Press) Panelists: Moderator: Edvige Giunta, New Jersey City University Emily Bernard,…
Un nonologo Una Donna Fantasiusa - Un nonologo Idea by/starring Eleonora Micali Written and directed by Stefano Maria Palmitessa A true story, where fiction is just background to scenes from real life narrated in this monologue or - better - a "nonologo" , as author Stefano Maria Palmitessa likes to call the memories, sensations, and jokes that the protagonist lived during…