Time to Read

It is not a bad idea for this fall to immerse yourself in the carefree, holiday atmosphere of a fast-living cosmopolitan group of young, gorgeous and glamorous expatriates. All this set against the backdrops of Parisian cafés and the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona (the celebrated bull-running festival through the city streets) during the summer of 1926. Popular cafés, expensive hotels, funny jokes, love, jealousy, beautiful clothes and… a colossal amount of drinking. These are the ingredients of The Sun Also Rises, the first novel written by Ernest Hemingway at 27 years of age after marrying his second wife.

Insignificant gestures, apparently trivial everyday details that, instead, conceal a precious graceful core, the only thing that can wipe out fear and evil. With its 17 short stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, published in 1981, has turned Raymond Carver into a cult author and a timeless icon of an understated style who can unveil the underlying nuances based on which relationships are often built without using unnecessary words. A book that continues to shine bright with its minimalist, essential and clean style.

“The story of a family is more like a map than a novel, and an autobiography is the summation of all the geologic ages you’ve passed through”. Claudia Durastanti tells the story of her life, split between Basilicata and Brooklyn, Rome and London, from her childhood to her future, in a book that is as hard to define (it’s not an autobiography, but it’s not a novel) as the lives of those who are destined to always feel like foreigners. And nomads.