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Italian born writer. Author of THE WAR ENDS AT FOUR (Regal House Publishing). Winner of the 2024 International Impact Book Awards, People of The Year Book Award and the Regal Summit Book Award 2024.
Stories in The Sun, Gargoyle, Brevity Blog and others.
Stories in The Sun, Gargoyle, Brevity Blog and others.
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Actual Soviet poster about achieving the five-year plan in four years, just in case anyone wanted to know the origins of that famous example in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Yakov Guminer, 2 + 2, plus workers' enthusiasm = 5, 1931
Yakov Guminer, 2 + 2, plus workers' enthusiasm = 5, 1931
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Actual Soviet poster about achieving the five-year plan in four years, just in case anyone wanted to know the origins of that famous example in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Yakov Guminer, 2 + 2, plus workers' enthusiasm = 5, 1931
Yakov Guminer, 2 + 2, plus workers' enthusiasm = 5, 1931
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If you're in L.A. tonight, I am doing an event at the Hammer Museum with Amber J. Phillips, where we will be talking about the Portable Feminist Reader! It's free: hammer.ucla.edu/programs-eve...
Roxane Gay: The Portable Feminist Reader | Hammer Museum
In her new innovative anthology, acclaimed author Roxane Gay explores what feminism looks like in practice in an interpretation of the feminist canon that is expansive rather than definitive. Moderate...
hammer.ucla.edu
June 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you're in L.A. tonight, I am doing an event at the Hammer Museum with Amber J. Phillips, where we will be talking about the Portable Feminist Reader! It's free: hammer.ucla.edu/programs-eve...
Opening night. The Time it takes. Il Tempo che ci vuole by Francesca Comencini
May 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Opening night. The Time it takes. Il Tempo che ci vuole by Francesca Comencini
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It’s worth mentioning that Bookshop.org was specifically created to help indies—you can buy online, choose an indie to support, and the store gets a huge percentage of the sale. Even if you don’t have an indie in your area, Bookshop supports bookstores!
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Bookshop.org
April 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
It’s worth mentioning that Bookshop.org was specifically created to help indies—you can buy online, choose an indie to support, and the store gets a huge percentage of the sale. Even if you don’t have an indie in your area, Bookshop supports bookstores!
Hands Off in NYC
April 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hands Off in NYC
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
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4 days left to submit to the AWP Award Series! Cash prizes & publication for CNF (judge Cheryl Strayed), poetry (judge Honorée Fanonne Jeffers), novel (judge R.O. Kwon), & short fiction (judge Kevin Wilson). Submit here: awpwriter.secure-platform.com/applications
Association of Writers & Writing Programs - AWP Programs and Awards
awpwriter.secure-platform.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
4 days left to submit to the AWP Award Series! Cash prizes & publication for CNF (judge Cheryl Strayed), poetry (judge Honorée Fanonne Jeffers), novel (judge R.O. Kwon), & short fiction (judge Kevin Wilson). Submit here: awpwriter.secure-platform.com/applications
Great panel with the wonderful Italian writers Andrea Bajani and Gabriele Pedulla`: 'Ricordare, Inventare, Depistare' at the Inst. Italiano di Cultura in NYC. Moderated by Chiara Benetollo and Iuri Moscardi.
January 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Great panel with the wonderful Italian writers Andrea Bajani and Gabriele Pedulla`: 'Ricordare, Inventare, Depistare' at the Inst. Italiano di Cultura in NYC. Moderated by Chiara Benetollo and Iuri Moscardi.
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LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:
Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)
Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)
Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)
Bé Ù (Silver Lake)
Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)
Oy Bar (Studio City)
Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)
Dudley Market (Venice)
LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)
Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)
Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)
Bé Ù (Silver Lake)
Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)
Oy Bar (Studio City)
Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)
Dudley Market (Venice)
LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
January 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:
Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)
Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)
Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)
Bé Ù (Silver Lake)
Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)
Oy Bar (Studio City)
Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)
Dudley Market (Venice)
LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)
Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)
Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)
Bé Ù (Silver Lake)
Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)
Oy Bar (Studio City)
Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)
Dudley Market (Venice)
LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
Wonderful
December 16, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Wonderful
I hit 'send' on my essay.
November 17, 2024 at 5:35 PM
I hit 'send' on my essay.