• 17th November 2011

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On November 14, while Silvio Berlusconi was heading to the Quirinale to resign amidst a crowd chanting “buffoon, thief”, a thousand people were quietly sitting in a former cinema listening to a public reading of David Foster Wallace’s last book. When the news of the resignation came out, somebody jumped on the stage and started to play the piano, while the crowd erupted in a chorus chanting “Bella ciao”, a partisan song from Italy’s resistance against Mussolini. After the one song, they all went back to the reading. The crowd - made up of publishers, actors, artists, book lovers - stayed up all night long reading David Foster Wallace in a technically illegal place.

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I am currently working on a story about the influx of African migrants into Europe, looking at what happens to these Tunisian, Libyan or sub-Saharan refugees once they reach the shores of Italy or Malta.

Just in the past week there have been several reports of boats carrying hundreds of people - women and children, too - capsizing in the Mediterranean, some just 30 or so miles away from the Italian island of Lampedusa.

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