Marta Ciccolari Micaldi
Journalist and literary guide, Marta Ciccolari Micaldi specializes in North American literature. In 2013, returning from a long stay in the United States, he inaugurated a blog to explore American customs and culture (La McMusa), with a particular focus on the contemporary novel and the ever-living concepts of the American dream and on the road. The same ones who, shortly after, gave birth to his American literature course and the Book Riders literary tours in America, both aimed at combining geography and literature. He also writes a monthly newsletter which, consistently, is called #SognaAmericano.
MAPS OF AMERICA | AMERICAN SUEÑOS
When we think of the American dream, a by now legendary iconography is activated in us, which moves from east […]
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MAPS OF AMERICA | THE ROAD WEST
To Montana, Wyoming, Oregon. To the wilds of Utah, Texas, Kansas. Towards any frontier the pioneers and their heirs deemed worthy of the name, not so much to duel each other or to hunt the Indians or, again, to pass on stories of sheriffs and outlaws, but rather to confront the elements of nature, to measure the hardening of one's spirit (individual and collective) under the biggest skies and the most distant stars, to find the sense of something superior by bringing one's horse to an uncontaminated land.
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MAPS OF AMERICA | THE CITY THAT NEVER DIES
Through a selection of stories from different sources (books, primarily, but also TV series, musicals, documentaries, photographs, etc.) and – for the first time in the history of Maps of America – through a series of first-hand accounts produced on field (interviews, videos, reports, articles), we will go together to discover New York in these last, decisive, twenty years.
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