Livia Manera Sambuy @ The American Library in Paris | 21 January 2015

Livia Manera discusses her friendships and works with major novelists. Her forthcoming book, to be published in Italy by Feltrinelli in April 2015, is Non scrivere di me. The title story, “You’ll never write about me again,” appears in the American literary magazine The Believer in the January/February 2015 issue, and explores her friendship with Philip Roth and the problems - but also the rewards - that arise when one get too close to his or her subject.
The other writers she discusses are Mavis Gallant, David Foster Wallace, Joseph Mitchell, James Purdy, Richard Ford, Paula Fox and Judith Thurman. The book is about them, and about what they and their books bring to the life of someone like Livia, whose jobs is to read and write about them, and whose destiny sometimes mingles with their lives.
Video edited by Sabina Cristian.