A Pimp's Notes Tapa dura - 2012

Giorgio Faletti spent years as a successful comedian and singer/songwriter before beginning a career as a writer. His first novel, "I Kill" (2002), was an international sensation. His fifth novel, "I Am God," was recently published in England, to wide acclaim.

Antony Shugaar is a writer and translator. Aside from Giorgio Faletti's "A Pimp's Notes," his recent translations include books by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Silvia Avallone, Nanni Balestrini (with an NEA translation fellowship), Fabio Bartolomei, Massimo Carlotto, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Diego De Silva, Marco Mancassola, Gianni Rodari, and Paolo Sorrentino. He is the author of "Coast to Coast" and "I Lie for a Living" and the coauthor, with the late Gianni Guadalupi, of "Discovering America" and "Latitude Zero." He has published with the "Washington Post," the "Boston Globe," and online with the "New York Times," among other publications. He is currently at work on a book about translation for the University of Virginia Press.