Francesca Marciano in the New York Times

Michiko Kakutani reviews the new story collection, The Other Language (2014), by acclaimed Italian author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Francesca Marciano, who visits the Writers Institute this coming Friday.

"Francesca Marciano’s magical, fleet-footed stories leap around the globe, from Rome to New York to Mombasa, from a small Greek village to a remote island off the coast of Tanzania to a fortress on the banks of the Narmada River in India. She has an uncanny ability to conjure specific places...."

More in the New York Times:   http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/books/no-safe-harbor-for-travelers-in-the-other-language.html

More about Marciano's visit:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/marciano_francesca14.html