Interviews

This month, I’m delighted to feature the writer June Caldwell as she prepares to launch her first book of short stories ‘Room Little Darker’. Published by New Island, June launched this collection of stories on the 31st May in Hodges Figgis. June Caldwell worked for many years as a journalist and now writes fiction. Her story ‘SOMAT’ was published in the...

An interview with two writers such as Barbara Garlaschelli and Nicoletta Vallorani is a real pleasure; and when they are together, they reveal the best of themselves, as you will find out as you read on. . We met them in Brescia, during the final evening of the traveling literary festival Libri In Movimento, where we met at the...

 An interview with two writers such as Barbara Garlaschelli and Nicoletta Vallorani is a real pleasure; and when they are together, they reveal  the best of themselves, as you will find out as you read on. . We met them in Brescia, during the final evening of the traveling literary festival Libri In Movimento, where we met at the...

Writing in different genre poses a number of problems, but also opportunities for modern writers. 'It’s  not always immediately obvious to writers in what genre an idea or a voice will best develop and come to life,' says David Butler, who is not just a fiction writer and poet, but an award-winning playwright as well. 'As a modus operandi...

Laura Tussi is a journalist, writer and teacher, who deals with non-violent and intercultural pedagogy. Together with Fabrizio Cracolici (President of the Nova Milanese section of ANPI – National Association of Italian Partisans - in the Monza & Brianza province), she is the promoter and manager of an institutional project launched by the cities of Nova Milanese and Bolzano,...

Poetics of recovery. This is what the works of Luigi Amara appear to be. Amara is a Mexican essayist and poet, author of books translated in Germany and France, such as El Peaton Inmovil (2013), Historia Descabellada de la Peluca (2014), La Escuela del Aburrimiento (2012) and his latest work Una Caja dentro de una Caja dentro de una...

Alfonso Navarra is an “anti-journalist”, writer and editor of the magazine “Difesa – ambiente” (Defending the environment). He has always been a pacifist and antimilitarist, he is the spokesman for the "Stop playing with atomic fire" argument within the campaign for conscientious objection to military spending (www.osmdpn.it) and the Secretary of the League for unilateral disarmament. He is working...

An interview with the writer Italo Bonera (author of the books Ph0xGen!, I'm not like you - Io non sono come voi, and Heaven and Iron – Cielo e ferro) at the Primo Piano Literary Cafe in Brescia, in a meeting with the author organized by our magazine. You didn’t make your writing debut early... No, I didn’t. I was getting...

Books are like children, leaving home. You want the world to treat them well What was the first book to make an impression on you? Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. My brother worked at a riding school and I was mad about horses. *Spoiler alert* I howled when Ginger died. What was your favourite book as a child? Eilis Dillon’s Irish Myths and...

Silvia Accorrà, writer, poet, translator, and photographer, is the author of “Tokyo Love” (published by Enrico Damiani Editore), an extremely innovative novel. We have been talking to her, and tracing her artistic pathway. You made your debut as an author in 1991, barely in your twenties, with the poetry collection Mezzoforte. The next collection, Pesce di terra (Ground fish), was...