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**Livia Manera Sambuy** is an Italian writer whose book of profiles of American writers, _Non Scrivere Di Me_ , was published in 2015. She is also the author and co-director of two documentary films on Philip Roth. She has been a staff writer at the literary pages of the Italian national daily _Corriere della Sera_ for over twenty years. She lives in Paris. **Todd Portnowitz** is the translator of _The Greatest Invention_ ; _Long Live Latin_ ; and _Go Tell It to the Emperor: The Selected Poems of Pierluigi Cappello,_ for which he was awarded a Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets _._ He lives in Brooklyn, New York.