The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield: a review

Hello, bookworms! Today I want to tell you something about a book I’ve recently read: The Garden Party and Other Stories, a collection of short stories by the New Zealander author Katherine Mansfield. Published in 1922, it represents one of the masterpieces of Modernist production. I must admit I didn’t know it: I had never

Florence Welch’s Useless Magic: a piece of magic that is not useless at all

Today I’ve decided to write an article about Florence Welch’s book, Useless Magic. This book was given to me as a gift by a special person, someone who knows exactly how I feel about Florence and her group, Florence + the Machine. I simply believe she’s a pure spirit in this corrupted world and that

Angela Carter and music

In this article I’m going to talk about one of my favourite writers ever: Angela Carter. Not only I absolutely adore her, I also wrote my Master’s thesis on her. In particular, I wrote about her collection of fairy tales, The Bloody Chamber. Published in 1979, this masterpiece represents the symbol of the movement of

My little collection of tales: At the window

In August 2020 I gathered the courage to publish a little collection of tales I wrote over the years. As I’m Italian, I originally wrote them in my mother tongue; after that, I thought I’d better try to translate them in English, which I did all by myself. You may think the collection is little