Book Presentation: Everything Is Broken Up and Dances CANCELLED

A conversation with Edoardo Nesi author, along with Guido Maria Brera, of Everything Is Broken Up and Dances – The Crushing of the Middle Class, (translation by Antony Shugaar) and John Jeremiah Sullivan.

This volume is a clear, engaging dialogue that explains how the role of economics and finance in the West has shifted in the twenty-first century. Just a handful of years into the new millennium, globalization has had a profound impact on economies and societies throughout Europe and America. In this accessible text, Edoardo Nesi and Guido Maria Brera illustrate the effects of globalization in Italy through the changes that have occurred in their own lives. Nesi was forced to sell the textile company his grandfather founded in the 1930s; Brera became a key figure in European asset management.

Edoardo Nesi is a writer, filmmaker, and translator. He began his career translating the work of such authors as Bruce Chatwin, Malcolm Lowry, Stephen King, and Quentin Tarantino. He has written six novels, one of which, L’età dell’oro, was a finalist for the 2005 Strega Prize and a winner of the Bruno Cavallini Prize. He wrote and directed the film Fughe da fermo, based on his novel of the same name, and has translated David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest into Italian. In 2013 he was elected as a member of the Italian Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies.

John Jeremiah Sullivan is an American writer, musician, teacher, and editor. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, and the southern editor of The Paris Review. In 2014, he edited The Best American Essays, a collection in which his work has been featured in previous years. He has also served on the faculty of Columbia University, Sewanee: The University of the South, and other institutions.