Category: Italy

Errori necessari: le recensioni

A number of reviews have appeared of Errori necessari, the Italian edition of my novel Necessary Errors, and I thought I should enter them into the record here. They’re all very generous, or at least they seem that way to me, wanting as I do to believe that they are and incapable as I am of really understanding Italian. If I’m wrong, please don’t tell me. A few of them are available directly:

Half a dozen more, including reviews in La Repubblica, La Sicilia, and Pagina 99, are available through the website of my Italian publisher, 66th and 2nd.

Emily Dickinson and “The Yellow Rose of Texas”

On Sunday, at Pordenone Legge, a book festival in northern Italy, my interviewer, Chiara Valerio, challenged me to tell the audience something about Emily Dickinson (one of her poems has a cameo in Necessary Errors), who, my interviewer said, is currently having a bit of a moment in Italy. Somehow, a minute or two later, I found myself singing an Emily Dickinson poem to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” And quindi, as the Italians say, when I was interviewed on the radio program Fahrenheit a few days later, the host, Loredana Lipperini, decided to ask me for a reprise, audible with all its involuntary tremolo here, if you click on the word “Ascolta.”