Andrey Slivka I've always had an affinity for the Italian language (even if I don't understand Italians themselves, who represent a culture so different from ours as to be from a planet that whips around a lonely sun a million…
Anneliese Cooper. Anyone who spent much time in the West Village in the last decade probably walked by the storefront at 30 West 12th Street, and wondered at its display of sun-faded books with Italian titles gathering dust against a…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: info@primolevicenter.org Programs: May 2, Spazi Metrici, an evening dedicated to Amelia Rosselli May 4, André Naffis-Sahely will discuss the work of Libyan writer Alessandro Spina (1927-2013) New York, NY, April 21, 2015 - Centro Primo Levi…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: info@primolevicenter.org New York, NY, April 21, 2015 - Centro Primo Levi NY introduces the CPL Editions App that provides access to CPL's books as well as to its online monthly Printed_Matter. The latter contains articles, interviews…
Alain Elkann Centro Primo Levi recently launched CPL Editions, a new publishing enterprise at the historical New York Italian bookstore and publisher S.F. Vanni. The interview with Alessandro Cassin, Director of Publishing, took place at the recently reopened S.F. Vanni…
ALESSANDRO CASSIN. The bookstore, in business from 1884 to 2004, reopens as a pop-up bookstore, cultural space and headquarters for our own CPL Editions. In a city in constant transformation, we believe in the symbolic value of the…
S.F. Vanni, the legendary Italian bookstore that operated in New York City from 1884 to 2004, is reopening this month as "a pop-up bookstore and cultural space" under the auspices of Centro Primo Levi at the store's longtime home at 30 W.…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: info@primolevicenter.org Opening party: February 17th between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm Address: 30 West 12th Street, NYC Launching of the first books published by CPL Editions (see www.primolevicenter.org) Visit the old space and the new one,…
Riapre, per ora solo come libreria temporanea, nello stesso edificio che aveva occupato dal 1931 al 2004 e con lo stesso spirito che l'aveva resa un punto di incontro per gli amanti dell'Italia a New York. S.F. Vanni Bookstore inaugura…
Alessandra Baldini For independent bookstores, New York is a cemetery scattered with crosses: Gotham and Coliseum were gone in the first decade of this century, casualties of the big bookstore chains, which eventually succumbed themselves to the rise of Amazon.…
