Baricco in Procida: Lessons of Hope and the Sea

From you we can learn hope and love for life, for energy and for light. What can we teach you? Only one thing: not to be ...
Deadline.com

‘Without Blood’ Author Says Angelina Jolie Made “Characters I Had Imagined Come To Life”; Filmmaker Says “He Was Almost Challenging Me” – TIFF

EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie‘s TIFF world premiere Without Blood is based on Alessandro Baricco‘s intriguing novel which is set a time of war, but the location and era aren’t defined. The movie follows a ...
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Turin Book Fair kicks off with Zadie Smith and Baricco, Grossman among the big names

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 12 - British writer Zadie Smith will deliver the inaugural lecture "Everything was extreme. And it's still like that. A reflection on adolescence" on Thursday May 14th, opening this ...
The Guardian

Urban sprawl

City Alessandro Baricco 342pp, Hamish Hamilton, £14.99 It is said that the finest silk feels like nothing between the fingertips. Alessandro Baricco's international bestseller, Silk, was fine in every ...
NPR

'Silk' Luxuriates In The Bittersweet Pain Of Love And Longing

I first read Alessandro Baricco's Silk in 1998, in its English translation by Guido Waldman. The book — a tale of travel, passion and mysterious, silent communication — resonated with me immediately.
The Guardian

Siege mentalities

An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco Canongate £10.99, pp163 The latest in Canongate's Myths series sees Alessandro Baricco, author of Silk, rewriting the Iliad. Its violent, panoramic narrative of the ...
L'Unione Sarda

"I have leukemia", the announcement by Alessandro Baricco from the hospital

The writer Alessandro Baricco announced on social media that he had received a diagnosis of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. "Um, there is news to give and this time I have to give it myself, ...