Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea …
David Foster Wallace was an acclaimed American writer known for his fiction, nonfiction, and critical essays that explored the complexities of consciousness, irony, and the human condition. Widely reg…
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, pen name of Dr. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, is best known for his works Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night), and Mort à crédit (Death on the Installment…
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as S…
Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author best known for his books House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Fifty Year Sword, The Little Blue Kite, and The Familiar series.
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an Academy Award- and Palme d'Or-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used non…
Peter Cameron (b. 1959) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, he moved to New York City after graduating college in 1982. Cameron began publishing st…
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col…
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
Michele Mari è nato a Milano nel 1955. Figlio del designer e artista Enzo Mari, insegna Letteratura Italiana all'Università Statale di Milano. Dal 1992 risiede a Roma.
Dopo il diploma in ragioneria ha lavorato in Algeria, Iraq e Francia. Tornato in Italia ha conseguito la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura Russa presso l'Università di Parma, con una tesi sulla poesia di…
Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then came to Ontario for a while to draw pictures, then Hal…
Zerocalcare sul finire del 2011 ha quasi 28 anni e per un sacco di tempo ha fatto soprattutto fumettacci sulle fanzine fotocopiate e locandine per concerti punk hardcore. Oltre ad un numero sterminato…
Francesco Costa è giornalista e vicedirettore de "Il Post". È nato a Catania e vive a Milano. Collabora con Roma Radio, ha lavorato anche per l’Unità e Internazionale, e ha scritto per IL, il mensile …
Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied law. He spent childhood summers in New England, particularly in Stonington and Bar Harbor, Maine. The Truth About the Harry Queber…
George Wylesol is an American illustrator, designer, cartoonist and educator from Philadelphia, best known for his abstract alternative comics. Wylesol currently lives in Baltimore and teaches illustr…
Fernando Rennis scrive di musica dal 2009 su riviste italiane e straniere, cartacee e digitali, ne parla in radio e su podcast. Ha pubblicato per Arcana quattro libri, tra cui "Un glorioso fallimento,…
Nato a Massa, cresciuto a Pisa, dove ha frequentato molte facoltà senza profitto, vive a Roma da più di 25 anni. Ha lavorato in libreria, e adesso si occupa di produzione televisiva e cinematografica.…
