Paper Fest – Books in the Square will arrive in Carrara on Sunday 30 June in Piazza San Francesco, the first series of book presentations launched by the Paper First publishing house of the Il Fatto Editorial Company. The initiative aims to be a preview of a larger festival-style review that will also host other publishing houses that Paper First aims to organize in 2025. «I am happy to organize a book review in Carrara, a city with so much potential. In addition to the tourist wonders, nestled as it is between the sea and the Alps, I think the city also has a very lively cultural fabric. For this reason we would like to be part of the city’s cultural initiatives with a fixed appointment”, he says Cinzia Monteverdi, President and admin. SEIF delegate. He adds: «This year the exhibition will be dedicated to the titles of our publishing house, but the intention is to extend it to other publishers and create a sort of entirely Apuan book fair». «For Carrara – says the mayor Serena Arrighi – it is a great pleasure to host this event, I thank everyone at Il Fatto Quotidiano and in particular Cinzia Monteverdi for choosing our city. This is undoubtedly a high-level event that we hope will become a fixed event for the Carrara summer. Carrara has always been a city of culture, but it is also an open city, a city of discussion and dialogue and for this reason I am sure that it is the perfect place for an event like ‘Paper Fest'”. The program of meetings, starting in the morning, will see some of the publishing house’s leading authors taking turns on stage. Titles that have become real editorial successes, at the top of the rankings of best-selling books in Italy. The presentations will be moderated by journalists and professionals from the information world. On stage, hosting the entire day, there will be the journalist, teacher and television presenter Luca Sommi.
PLAN
10.15 am | inauguration of the exhibition
with Serena Arrighi (mayor of Carrara)
Gea Dazzi (councillor for the municipal culture of Carrara)
Cinzia Monteverdi (president and CEO Il Fatto Editorial Company)
10.30 am | Alessandro Di Battista
presents Inconvenient truths
with Sara Lucaroni (journalist and author of The light of Singal.
Journey into the Yazidi genocidePeople publisher)
Critical thinking must be defused. Dissent (even when it is a majority in the country) must be denigrated. History should not be considered. Yet there was a time when politics was not so afraid of taking sides, a time when intellectuals were ready to take sides, a time when Atlanticism and Europeanism were different things.
6.30 pm | Andrea Scanzi
presents The Misfortune
A tale of these chaotic times. To interpret the present. And to resist this inexorable collapse of our political politics.
8.00 pm | Antonio Padellaro
presents Only the truth I swear
with Cristina Lorenzi (journalist from The nation)
A sincere book, which does not give discounts to anyone, much less to the writer, an intimate diary made of confessions, reflections and revelations, often disruptive and very bitter. Without ever losing the taste for irony (and self-irony).
9.00 pm | Selvaggia Lucarelli
presents The Pandora’s Box. Rise and fall of the Ferragnez
Selvaggia Lucarelli’s investigation into Chiara Ferragni’s charity has caused the crisis of a model that seemed glittering and very solid, a story that, traced backwards, leads to conclusions that concern us all.
10.00 pm | Marco Travaglio
presents Israel and the Palestinians in a nutshell
Tracing the history of Israel and Palestine from 70 AD to today, the director of Il Fatto Quotidiano analyzes the ways and causes of the current conflict.
Participation in the meetings is free and open
For further updates: https://ilfat.to/PaperFest
