Tuesday 19 March, 7pm
In Italy: Venice, Rome and Beyond, by Cynthia Zarin. Published by Daunt Books
The author in conversation with Cathleen Mair (Editor, Idler magazine)
In Italy is a deeply personal meditation on four Italian spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ – a traveller moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. Zarin’s attention to the smallest details, the loveliest gesture, brings Venice, Rome, the Basilica and Santa Maria Maggiore vividly to life.
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Cynthia Zarin is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Ada Poems and Orbit, as well five books for children and two essay collections, Two Cities and An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History. A longtime contributor to the New Yorker, Zarin teaches at Yale University and lives in New York City.
Cathleen Mair is an intellectual and cultural historian of eighteenth-century Europe, with special expertise in women’s writing, the history of emotions, and the French Revolution. She currently teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. She is also the Literary Editor of the Idler magazine, where she helps run the Idler Festival, and a founding member of Dinner Party Press.