ICYMI, @jacquiwine.bsky.social came out swinging for Lalla Romano 🌊
"Annie Ernaux and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking (...) are valid comparisons, for sure, but to my mind, Romano’s prose style is more poetic than either Didion’s or Ernaux’s. There is a graceful lyricism here".
ICYMI, @jacquiwine.bsky.social came out swinging for Lalla Romano 🌊
"Annie Ernaux and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking (...) are valid comparisons, for sure, but to my mind, Romano’s prose style is more poetic than either Didion’s or Ernaux’s. There is a graceful lyricism here".
Episode 5 of Books and Their Makers: Tolka @ 10
Catherine and Liam from @tolkajournal.bsky.social spoke to me on the launch of their tenth issue - they talked about how one of the best contemporary lit mags around started, how it developed, and where it might be going:
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Brian Robert Moore
Brian Robert Moore
‘…and for a moment I felt an attraction for him that was violent, secret, but I believe already tenaciously deep. It wasn’t an idea, it was a sensation; head-spinning, but not unsettling. Rather, familiar.’ #BookSky 💙📚
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This week the Italian Cultural Institute in New York will be reading my translation of Michele Mari's enthralling Verdigris, and I'm looking forward to joining the discussion. Still some spots left, can RSVP here!: iicnewyork.esteri.it/en/gli_event... @andotherstories.bsky.social
Finished A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano, tr Brian Robert Moore.
Set towards the end of WWII in a small village near Turin, a woman lives with her friend and the friend's sick husband. The slow unwinding of the occupation and the austerity of war is a backdrop to a subtle, beautifully drawn novel.
Currently reading A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore. I read and reviewed her novel In Farthest Seas last year. She is an elegant and perceptive writer, with precision character writing.
This is set in the Italian countryside near Turin during WWII.
New York–area readers and friends: See you at our Issue 52 launch party on Thursday? www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
'Everything went dark. That was it, the true sentence. In that moment I lost him, I knew I had lost him.
Suddenly time had been cut frighteningly short; like for a person plummeting who sees moving towards her the ground where she’ll be crushed.' #BookSky 💙📚
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"There is a genuine sense of honesty and vulnerability here, a palpable poignancy that cuts close to the bone."
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#intranslation Via @jacquiwine.bsky.social
BOOK CLUB Book of the month: Verdigris by Michele Mari Translated by Brian Robert Moore Special guest: Brian Robert Moore, translator, winner of the 2025 PEN Translation Prize and the 2025 Italian Pro...
New on the blog today, my thoughts on IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore).
I loved this profound, intimate and deeply moving elegy to Cenzo Monti, Romano’s husband of fifty years. Fans of Annie Ernaux might appreciate this. #BookSky 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...
New on the blog today, my thoughts on IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore).
I loved this profound, intimate and deeply moving elegy to Cenzo Monti, Romano’s husband of fifty years. Fans of Annie Ernaux might appreciate this. #BookSky 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...
A couple of years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed A Silence Shared, a beautiful, enigmatic novel by the Italian writer, translator and artist Lalla Romano. First published in Italy in 1957, Tett…
A couple of years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed A Silence Shared, a beautiful, enigmatic novel by the Italian writer, translator and artist Lalla Romano. First published in Italy in 1957, Tett…
A couple of years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed A Silence Shared, a beautiful, enigmatic novel by the Italian writer, translator and artist Lalla Romano. First published in Italy in 1957, Tett…
A couple of years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed A Silence Shared, a beautiful, enigmatic novel by the Italian writer, translator and artist Lalla Romano. First published in Italy in 1957, Tett…
A couple of years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed A Silence Shared, a beautiful, enigmatic novel by the Italian writer, translator and artist Lalla Romano. First published in Italy in 1957, Tett…
