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Dream of Venice in Black and White – introduction by Tiziano Scarpa, edited by JoAnn Locktov. Dream of Venice in Black and White is a beautifully produced coffee table book, dedicated to photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin who, over the...
Then She Was Born by Cristiano Gentili, novel set in Tanzania. Translated by Lori Hetherington. A zeru zeru (phantom, meaning albino) baby is born to Juma. Tanzania has the highest birth rate of babies with albinism according to the...
It’s off to Paris via fiction! We have a copy of Leila Slimani’s Lullaby, a novel that has been a real hit in 2018. But readers are quite divided. We thought it was an excellent read with many layers!...
TalkingLocation With…. John Thorndike, author of A Hundred Fires in Cuba, set in Cuba. A few years ago I went to Havana to do some research on my current book, A Hundred Fires in Cuba. It’s a good thing...
#TalkingLocationWith... author Roger Johns, writer of River of Secrets set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A Dangerous Place for Dangerous Stories I’m a practitioner of the dangerous-stories-in-dangerous-places style of crime fiction. A persistent tension hangs over a dangerous story situated in a dangerous...
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