"Run away with me: Stories of love and latitudes" is a collection of short stories written by Henry J. Ginsberg and published in the United States by Lighthouse Publisher, New York. The author, Marco Pontoni – who chose the name Henry J. Ginsberg as his pen name –, is a journalist and narrator from Italy with a passion for travels and the exploration of feelings.

His stories are love stories set in different cities all around the world – love stories without adjectives, because "no kind of love is better than the others".
The collection was originally printed in 2012, and it was republished in Italy and the US by Lighthouse Publisher as a new paperback and ebook edition.

One city, one story. From New York to London, from Paris to Palermo, from Istanbul to Rome, from Chicago to Rio, from Jerusalem to Brussels. Portraits of people, places, moments, situations, emotions – this is the heart of the stories written by Henry J. Ginsberg (Marco Pontoni's pen name, revealing his taste in literature), stories that revolve around every single expression and manifestation of love.

The book is printed by Lighthouse Publisher, a young publishing house always on the hunt for new authors. As Raymond Carver would say – and we're pretty sure he would appreciate it –, these stories can be described as short cuts.
Sometimes it's a dialog, sometimes an interior monolog, sometimes an anecdote heard en passant inside a bar or while checking in, sometimes a fight, or a reconciliation. No matter the situation, these fragments contain all we need – the intensity in every relationship that sprouts, grows or fades, either with a happy or sad ending. On the background, and inside the stories, we see different landscapes, mainly urban. A pub, a window facing a square, a swimming pool in a hotel, a bedroom letting the sounds of the city in – such places are the real protagonists of these pages, everyday places that can turn into wonderful, harsh, difficult places, complicated by every single thing that happens there, even the smallest events.

Sometimes the protagonist is History, adorned with a capital "H" – for example, the fall of the Berlin Wall or the siege of Sarajevo. And then we go back to feelings and relationships, to every kind of love – romantic or sensual, soft or sharp, love for a person in flesh and blood or for a shadow, a memory, filial love or selfish love.

The stories of Henry J. Ginsberg were partially published on the fashion blog "Tempi & Modi – coniugazioni di stile" in 2012 and then printed as a book. Now, for the first time, they were translated into English and republished in Italy as an e-book at the same time.

The Author

Henry J. Ginsberg (Marco Pontoni) was born in Bolzano/Bozen (Italy) in 1965. Journalist, writer, hobby photographer and finalist at the Calvino Prize, he also published the novel Music box, the book Mozambico, l'orgoglio di un popolo (Mozambique, pride of a population) with the photographer Massimo Zarucco and many stories on magazines and anthologies. He is the author of reports and documentaries filmed in Africa, Asia and Latin America and a contributor for La voce di New York with a weekly column dedicated to books. He loves Lou Reed, literature and the sensation of being on a journey even when he is standing still.