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American Stranger

August 28, 2017

A New Novel by David Plante

Last November I was having dinner with David Plante, an American novelist who American Stranger - A Novel by David Plante lives in Italy and just happened to ask if he had any fiction he wanted to publish. At the end of the evening, he emailed me a copy of a novel called American Stranger. I read it the next morning in one sitting and finished the novel in tears. [Read more…]

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Live in Italy for Two Years and Write in Italian

May 17, 2016

The word on Jhumpa Lahiri was that she’d moved to Italy and now, after a few years of immersing herself in the language, was going to write in Italian. Had I heard this news about one of my fellow, white American, middle-class novelists, I would have shrugged and said, “Knock yourself out.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: General, New Books Tagged With: Campo dei Fiori, foreign cultures, In Other Words, Italy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joseph Conrad, Nabokov, novelists, Via Giulia

Is 55 Years Worth The Wait?

February 14, 2015

Harper Lee’s New Novel

I am amazed at how much media attention has been focused on the summer 2015 publication of Harper Lee’s follow-up novel to To Kill A Mockingbird. The new book is to be called Go Set A Watchman, and this title seems somewhat clumsy in comparison to Lee’s beloved novel that is a staple of secondary school education in the United States as well as internationally.

Guess how much a 6-month royalty check pays for a book that was published in 1960?

Harper Lee's New Book

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