In this new series we will enjoy several conversations with American writers who will share their experiences of an Italian journey, be it real, imaginary, or metaphorical, but one that is personal and shows their bond with our country. The first encounter is with Michael Frank, whose talk is intriguingly titled "Making friends with Michele, my Italian Doppelgänger”.

Michael Frank is the author of The Mighty Franks, a psychologically acute memoir about an unusual Hollywood family, in which he "brings Proustian acuity and razor-sharp prose to family dramas as primal, and eccentrically insular, as they come" (The Atlantic). His second novel, Fertility, will be published next October.