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SUNDAY, APRIL 12 | 6:30PM
ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE SAN FRANCISCO
Matteo B.
Bianchi
The Life Of Those Left Behind
MODERATOR
Sara Marinelli, University of San Francisco
EVENT IN ENGLISH
photo credit: Adolfo Frediani
FREE ADMISSION | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
A preview of the Festival told by Matteo B. Bianchi
"When you come back, I'll be gone." These are S.'s last words to Matteo, spoken over the phone one autumn day in 1998. S. is finishing moving his things out of Matteo's apartment after the end of their love story. That day, Matteo returns home, the house where they lived together for seven years, and discovers that S. has taken his own life. More than twenty-five years have passed since those moments, during which Matteo B. Bianchi has never stopped shaping these pages of excruciating beauty in his head.
THE AUTOR
Matteo B. Bianchi is a writer and television author. He published the novels Generations of love (1999), Fermati tanto così (2002) and Esperimenti di felicità temporanea (2006) for Baldini & Castoldi and Apocalisse a domicilio (2010) for Marsilio. With Fandango he published Generations of love – Extensions (2016) and Maria accanto (2017). In 2018, with ADD editore, he published a biography of Yoko Ono – Declarations of love for a woman surrounded by hate. He is among the authors of TV programs such as Quelli che il calcio (Rai Due), X Factor, E poi c’è Cattelan (Sky Uno). He has been editor of the fiction magazine ‘tina for over twenty years. He is the author of highly successful podcasts such as Esordienti – Guida pratica per chi scrive, Copertina – Un podcast che peddles reading tips and ’tina, all for StorieLibere.fm. Since 2022, he has been editorial director of Accento, a publishing house founded by Alessandro Cattelan. His latest novel is La vita di chi resta (Mondadori, 2023).
THE MODERATOR
Sara Marinelli is a San Francisco–based writer who grew up in Naples, Italy. Her writing in English is published in Chicago Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA online, New American Writing, and Blue Mesa Review; her work in Italian appears in Nazione Indiana, Leggendaria, Alias. A recipient of the 2024–2025 Brown-Handler residency at the San Francisco Public Library, Sara is a Teaching Artist at the San Francisco Opera and an award-winning educator at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches Comparative Literature and Creative Writing.