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Jeff Biggers presents: In Sardinia
When: Tuesday, May 23 – 6 p.m.
Where: I AM Books, 124 Salem St., Boston MA 02113 (Register Here)
The second largest Italian island and a keystone in Mediterranean history, Sardinia is known largely as the playground of the global jet-set, the Blue Zone phenomenon and bandits. Award-winning historian, journalist, travel writer Jeff Biggers is shining a new light on the island with his book, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy (Melville House | Nonfiction | HC | On Sale 5/16/23).
Guided by insiders through its vibrant and untranslated literary traditions, Biggers chronicles a rare journey across Sardinia to experience its famed cuisine, wine, rituals and thriving cultural movements. Along the way, Biggers unveils stunning new archaeological findings that are rewriting the history of the Mediterranean.
In Sardinia blends human stories with art, music, literary, archaeological, social and political history, as Biggers weaves a compelling, witty and poetic account of an exciting cultural revival on the island, and its overlooked wellspring of famous innovators, where thousands of years of foundational history and its impact on Italy, Europe and the world have been buried until recent times.
As a major addition to Italian travel writing, history and literature, In Sardinia is a tour de force by a celebrated author of cultural histories and travel stories across the United States and Mexico, who now turns to Europe to show us that to understand Italy, you must first understand Sardinia. About the author: Jeff Biggers is an American Book Award-winning historian, journalist and playwright who has been based part-time in Italy since 1989. He is the recipient of the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year for Travel Writing, a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, and the author of ten books of cultural history and investigative reporting. He’s had work in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon.com, and on NPR.
Mark Cirino presents: One True Sentence
When: Thursday, May 25 – 6:30 p.m.
Where: I AM Books, 124 Salem St., Boston MA 02113 (Register Here)
A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula McLain, and Russell Banks; filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick; Seán Hemingway, A. Scott Berg, and many others in this celebration and conversation between Hemingway and some of his most perceptive and interesting readers.
Mark Cirino is the host of One True Podcast. He is the author/editor of six books about Ernest Hemingway and serves as the general editor for Kent State University Press’s “Reading Hemingway” series. He served as the literature consultant on the forthcoming cinematic adaptation of Hemingway’s Across the River and into the Trees. Cirino teaches American literature at the University of Evansville.
Roland Merullo presents: Dessert with Buddha
When: Thursday, June 8 – 6:30 p.m.
Where: I AM Books, 124 Salem St., Boston MA 02113 (Register Here)
Dessert with Buddha takes the eccentric monk, Volya Rinpoche, and his skeptical, brother-in-law, Otto, on another enlightening road trip filled with meals, humor, social commentary, and good times. The couple that traveled from New York to North Dakota in Breakfast with Buddha, Seattle to North Dakota in Lunch, and North Dakota to Vegas in Dinner heads from Boston to points south. They meet an array of intriguing characters–from a former NBA star to a Holocaust survivor, from an A.M.E. preacher to a hedge fund executive, from a Syrian refugee to a homeless North Carolinian–tour famous American sights, and enjoy the kinds of conversations about spirituality that have engrossed hundreds of thousands of readers from China to Turkey to Croatia, and in every U.S. state. Otto’s sister, Cecelia, his daughter Natasha, son Anthony, and niece Shelsa, all have roles in the story, as the famous duo pilots a hybrid pickup along back roads and superhighways, toward the series’ climactic finish.
Cookbook Author Maria Pasquale presents: The Eternal City
When: Thursday, July 6 – 6:30 p.m.
Where: I AM Books, 124 Salem St., Boston MA 02113 (Register Here)
Born to Italian parents in Melbourne, Maria always knew Italy was her destiny. With a formal background in political science and history, she is now an award-winning food and travel writer and journalist and contributes regularly to USA Today, CNN, Condé Nast and The Telegraph. The author of I Heart Rome and How to be Italian, her lifestyle blog HeartRome, has readers in over 100 countries, a social media network that exceeds 45,000 and has been featured in BBC Travel, The Sunday Times and Vogue among others. In 2021, Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper named her one of Rome’s most influential travel experts. In Rome, you’ll find her walking the streets of Trastevere, checking out the latest bar for an aperitivo or dining with friends. The Eternal City is Maria’s third book.
