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The author of City on Fire and other highly acclaimed novels shows movie clips and discusses great forgotten cinema with Antonio Monda.
Garth Risk Hallberg's first novel, City on Fire, was a New York Times and international best seller and was selected as one of the best books of 2015 by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Guardian, and Vogue, among others. It was adapted into the Apple TV+ series of the same name. He is also the author of The Second Coming and A Field Guide to the North American Family. In 2017, Granta named him one of the Best of Young American Novelists. His work has been translated into seventeen languages.
Antonio Monda (moderator) is artistic director of Le Conversazioni literary festival and also served as director of the Rome Film Festival.
Le Conversazioni is an international festival founded in 2006 by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini. Initially dedicated exclusively to literature, its field of interest and reflections has spread to other disciplines. The Festival originated in Capri, where events still take place every summer. New York City was added in 2009, followed by Rome, Washington D.C., Paris, and Naples. Le Conversazioni has also organized events at the Guggenheim, the MoMA, the Morgan Library and the New-York Historical Society.
