Steven G. Kellman What would Primo Levi say? Though he died in 1987, the question persists. Last year, in a New York Times column recounting shock and revulsion over ISIS’s beheading American journalists and a British aid worker, Roger Cohen recalled a passage…
Parla Alessandro Cassin, che riapre la storica libreria fondata nel 1884 da un immigrato siciliano. Il successivo proprietario ebbe l’intuizione di vendere per corrispondenza i volumi fatti arrivare dal nostro Paese Giuseppe Culicchia. C’era una volta una piccola libreria italiana…
Alek Wilkinson. “Countless times I walked past these windows with the curtains drawn,” Alessandro Cassin said. “It seemed so unlikely that there would be anything behind them anymore.” Cassin is the director of publishing for Centro Primo Levi, which promotes…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Calvin Reid, Publishers’ Weekly New York, NY, June 8, 2015 - Primo Levi’s complete works in English available for the first time The noted Italian writer Primo Levi (1919–1987), an Auschwitz survivor and the author of such…
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…
