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A prolific author who has long been regarded as one of Italy’s finest writers, Starnone is starting to capture an international audience with his typically taut, spell-binding, and psychologically dark narratives. In the words of his publisher, Starnone is a master storyteller and a novelist of the highest order. His gaze is trained unwaveringly on the fault […]

As you can imagine, this is an incredible joy and dream for me to be able to share with you these books, which I have “lived with” for years now. In their individual ways, they each represent a different stage of my lifelong journey into Dante’s life and work: my Vita Nuova translation has been an immersion […]

With Playground, Powers has cemented his reputation as one of America’s leading novelists. Like Rachel Kushner, author of our November 2024 VBC selection Creation Lake, Powers enjoys both commercial and critical success, most recently for his brilliant novel The Overstory. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019, The Overstory is a moving account of how the lives of nine Americans are […]

Ever since she burst on the literary scene with The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, Kushner has been heralded as a major new voice in American fiction and as an author known for her edgy depictions of characters living “on the brink.” A word that often comes up in discussions of her work […]

When I started the Virtual Book Club in October 2020 – which makes this our four-year VBC anniversary! – Housekeeping was the kind of book I had in mind. There’s something classic and timeless about it, especially its gorgeous, unhurried prose, but also contemporary, as it lays bare some of the major elements of life today. I remember reading the […]