We followed for some time a series of publications on essay plan that dealt with in various capacities ranging topics from espionage to institutional and non-secret services. We discovered a series of historical events and personalities of world espionage that deserve attention and interest. We found, for example that the US Navy sent during World [...]

Hard to put this novel in a specific literary genre, because it represents perhaps a mixture of multiple genres, from war to personal tragedy to daily life. The ancient secret of Beppe the farrier is a right of life of our days, some lived in early 2002, partly set during the Italian participation to the [...]

Seven stories, a more impressive than the other. Telling tales of horror, both physical, real, supernatural. Stories which reserve surprises, because you can’t ever figure out how to finish. Even when everything seems clear, even when the mystery seems to be unveiled by events and by the characters themselves, Nicholas Lombardi displaces the player, offering [...]

The week begins with three articles about writing. Starting from a set of tips for good writing, it continues with a type of technical writing and finally the first post heading on web copywriting. Mid-week there is an interview with a new publishing house, then continues with some recommendations of books. We close the week [...]

Continues short review articles on the marketing plan for a book, which follows a personal reflection on creative writing. Back then the series of posts on web copywriting and heading on the ten new words. It continues with a list of four books out and another on the next week’s advances. Sunday comes a tale [...]

The tables often inspired writers. It is not uncommon to write history, such as Tracy Chevalier, or the characters individually (for example Philippe Besson in the season back). Editions Invenit decided to browse the museums of the Nord-Pas de Calais and assign to authors writing a short essay about a representative work of each of [...]

Je you is not the price of the unnoticed which I constantly tell you the greatest from four years already. If? This award is for mission to reward a French book and a book foreign (and his translator) past unnoticed in the media to the public. Thus, “are allowed to compete for the price of [...]

Time ago I bought the swastika on the Sun by Philip k. Dick, after several readings of articles that spoke well of the writer. This novel I recently added Ubik and The Valistrilogy. I will be the first that Ubik, indeed, at the time of publication of this post I’m already reading and maybe I [...]

One of the most talented authors in Sweden and most appreciated in Italy, John Ajvide Lindqvist back in the library with a collection of 11 short stories titled paper Walls. The anthology is edited as earlier works by Lindqvist by Marsilio and with the author’s style ranges from a building in a suburb of Stockholm [...]

Carlos Fuentes, which often has t cit as Nobelisable, just died Mexico City. He had acquired a  international  the age of 30 with his first novel, the clearest region (1958). He had obtained in 1987 the prestigious Cervantes Prize. Son of an Inspector and of a diplomat, Carlos Fuentes was a vagrant children who never [...]