"Del Giudice recreates an existing landscape in miniature to play around with his protagonist . . . carefully brought to life in English by Appel, a fascinating early work about a man’s unwavering decision to choose literature... over a life." ---Asymptote www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/01...

A Fictional Inquiry, Del Giudice: "Floating between truth and conjecture, drifting through the cold fogs of London and Trieste, the novel poses questions about writing as a discipline situated at the murky intersection of art, history, and individual psychology." necessaryfiction.com/reviews/a-fi...

A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, written in the footsteps of a man of letters, @financialtimes.com: "Daniele Del Giudice’s first novel, finally available in English, creates a magical tension between an active life and the contemplative act of writing." Translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social

from Shout Out by Roberto Saviano (coming in 2026 from @sevenstories.bsky.social): Comedian Lenny Bruce “said that you should never deny people the chance to say 'fuck you,' because it’s denying them the chance to say 'fuck politics' to a government they don’t like...

The Financial Times: "Del Giudice’s languorous, meditative novel is now finally available in English, thanks to a disarming translation by Anne Milano Appel ... creates a nuanced, magical sense of tension between an active life and the contemplative nature of writing." www.ft.com/content/e345...

A FICTIONAL INQUIRY reviewed in @financialtimes.com : "Del Giudice’s languorous, meditative novel is now finally available in English, thanks to a disarming translation by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social ” newvesselpress.com/books/a-fict...

A FICTIONAL INQUIRY praised @thespectator1828.bsky.social as "a memorable metaphysical detective story" in "elegant translation"by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social about literary legend Bobi Bazlen who "brought out the first Italian editions of Freud, Kafka and Musil,but produced no writing of his own."

The Spectator magazine praises A FICTIONAL INQUIRY (New Vessel Press) as "a memorable metaphysical detective story ... But everything assumes another dimension if we know that the man at the centre of it all, Bobi Bazlen, really existed. ... " www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-ph...

"Explores the nature of perception while critiquing both writers and the writing life. Anglophones at last have an opportunity to engage with this intriguing and intellectually stimulating novel for the first time."—On the Seawall www.ronslate.com/on-a-fiction...

atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write shorturl.at/uHbAR tr @annemilanoappel.bsky.social from @newvesselpress.bsky.social

Read an excerpt from A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated from the Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social, @literaryhub.bsky.social. This metaphysical detective story tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste to retrace a fabled literary figure. lithub.com/a-fictional-...

“Even if it’s just a brief nap, like this half-hour one, afterward you have to start all over again.” Read from Daniele Del Giudice’s novel A Fictional Inquiry, translated by Anne Milano Appel. | Lit Hub Fiction lithub.com/a-fictional-...

Watch this intriguing video in which Daniele Del Giudice talks about the inspiration for his novel A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, the legendary literary figure Roberto Bazlen. Trieste-born Bazlen helped found one of Italy's most celebrated publishing houses, @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social vimeo.com/506207913

Today is publication day for A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. This haunting novel, championed by Italo Calvino, is a modern Italian cult classic appearing in English for the first time. newvesselpress.com/books/a-fict...

An insightful review of Daniele Del Giudice’s “A Fictional Inquiry,” forthcoming from @NewVesselPress , by prof. Loredana Polezzi. I especially resonated with Polezzi’s personal touch about starting to read Del Giudice again. readingintranslation.com/2025/10/27/d...

A very perceptive review of Daniele Del Giuidice's A Fictional Inquiry, Tony. From New Vessel Press.

Congratulations to @wwborders.bsky.social for having now published ten Nobel laureates in their 22-year history as the home for international literature, the latest being László Krasznahorkai. And congratulations to all the translators who translated them.

A Fictional Inquiry @NewVesselPress remedies a lack observed earlier in The Modern Novel: “that Lo stadio di Wimbledon ... has never been translated into English is a sad commentary on the state of the novel in the English language.” www.themodernnovel.org/europe/w-eur...

Have an essay you think would be a good fit for Minor Literature[s]? Submissions are now open. Send something good. Something smart. Something strange.

Daniele Del Giudice's first published novel (Einaudi, 1983).

Andrea Canobbio: "La figura del matematico mi è sempre sembrata eccezionalmente ricca di possibili sviluppi narrativi, perché ambigua: da un lato l’apparente certezza del calcolo, delle formule, delle dimostrazioni, ... www.traspi.net/canobbio-per...

“How is it the books that should be popular aren’t in fact popular? And why are the books that shouldn’t be popular selling so many copies?” --Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln reflects on the "decline of literature" discourse. tinyurl.com/yc3k24fd

Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggested that Western-style charismatic politics, inherent in a single individual, ended with Hitler, but was apparently wrong. Molly Worthen, Spellbound LARB, lareviewofbooks.org/article/unve...

A new entry into “let’s make translators extinct”: I fondatori dell’impresa ... hanno tenuto a precisare che non è loro intenzione sostituirsi ai traduttori umani, quanto piuttosto favorire una più ampia diffusione della letteratura. Marina Russo's Biblit tinyurl.com/55atfpht

Imagine if this were a jigsaw puzzle...!

“To me, writing is an act of listening. … The writing is this listening, to write is to listen.” - Jon Fosse in an interview in The New Yorker. Seems analogous to translation, which is to listen to what the author writes. tinyurl.com/ydk3tvfv

I imagine you have your reasons for not labeling these as to location or year, though I always find myself trying to identify the setting...

Thank you for posting from my translation of Antonio Scurati's M Son of the Century (HarperCollins).

Today our free newsletter subscribers received a brilliant short story from our Summer 2025 issue, Monica Pareschi’s “The Seagulls,” translated from Italian by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/the-seagulls

"Appealing literary quest...An exploration of: 'why write?' and the meaning of the activity...this is an intriguing 'fictional inquiry.'" @maorthofer.bsky.social on A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. www.complete-review.com/reviews/ital...

Giovanni Padua scrive del romanzo di @vannisantoni.bsky.social: "Il romanzo di Santoni si innesta consapevolmente nell’immaginario narrativo degli shōnen, dove il sogno è il principio motore di ogni azione e trasformazione..." rivistastanca.com/il-pesce-che...

"A metaphysical detective story and a modern Italian classic ... a brilliant meditation on the mysteries that inform literature."—Mark Haber, author of St. Sebastian's Abyss on A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translator @annemilanoappel.bsky.social. newvesselpress.com/books/a-fict...

Noah Slaughter reviews A Fictional Inquiry by Daniele Del Giudice (New Vessel Press, 2025): “A slow-moving, contemplative novel that “often feels like a series of riddles or questions” ... “the narrator himself remains largely an enigma to us.” www.full-stop.net/2025/05/23/r...

“I expected the bookshop to be small, reserved for a select few. It is a monument. Monumental in its arrangement...” —An excerpt from Daniele Del Giudice’s “A Fictional Inquiry” (tr. @annemilanoappel.bsky.social) @newvesselpress.bsky.social. Art by Rosaire Appel. evergreenreview.com/read/a-ficti...

An excerpt of A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Guidice translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social in @evergreenreview.bsky.social. Calvino called it a simple book, "straightforward to read, but at the same time possessing great depth and extraordinary quality." evergreenreview.com/read/a-ficti...

“The Seagulls” by @MonicaPareschi came out this week in @NimrodJournal @BorisDralyuk It's from her collection Inverness, @PolidoroEditore. It's always a satisfying thrill to see a writer I hadn't translated before in print, especially in an excellent journal I hadn't worked with before!

An excerpt from my translation of A Fictional Inquiry by Daniele Del Guidice is currently featured in The Evergreen Review: evergreenreview.com/read/a-ficti... Forthcoming from New Vessel Press in Oct. 2025, the novel was originally published as Lo stadio di Wimbledon, Einaudi editore.

The funding crisis for the arts is making it hard to have to turn away from the pleas that fill our inboxes. One journal wrote: "As of this year, all external forms of support are gone." Readers, authors & other supporters can't possibly fill the void left by recent funding losses. Not sustainable.

Vanni Santoni comments that literary journals act as humus and hothouse (or gym or dojo) for new voices (“le riviste fanno da humus e vivaio – o palestra, o dojo – per le nuove voci”).

"Seven Times Happy," an excerpt from Vendesi croce by Muin Masri, appears in the May/June 2025 print issue of World Literature Today, worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/sev...

"Seven Times Happy," an excerpt from Vendesi croce by @muinmasri, appears in the May/June 2025 print issue of @worldlittoday, worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/sev...

Daniele Del Giudice's final goodbye to Antarctica in Orizzonte mobile as the plane lifts off: “beyond the row of windows, ice fields and reliefs slid by swiftly along with a few people I had come to like, and a lone penguin, tottering or dancing, who knows.” www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DRMTI...

Championed by Italo Calvino as a "very simple book, straightforward to read, but at the same time possessing great depth and extraordinary quality." ARCs of A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by @annemilanoappel.bsky.social, available now. newvesselpress.com/books/a-fict...

Goslings in parade formation

Premio Strega 2025:Davide Turrini scrive: “Fuori dai dodici finalisti non solo Einaudi, ma tra i grandi editori anche La Nave di Teseo e Bompiani.” tinyurl.com/fd3rj65c

My translation of an excerpt from Between the Lines: The Joy of Translating (Laterza), Silvia Pareschi’s book on the tantalizing challenges relished by translators, is now online at www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YJ8CD...

Author Kevin McLaughlin writes “copyright does *not* prohibit uses other than display and distribution ... eight US courts ... have ruled that unless the AI developers are displaying or distributing copyrighted works to their end users, it's not infringement.”

“Consequences," a story I translated by Giovanna Daddi, was published yesterday in the Los Angeles Review: losangelesreview.org/consequences...

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