Brookline Booksmith and WBUR present “A Night of Ferrante Fever”

In celebration of Elena Ferrante’s first collection of nonfiction, Frantumaglia, join best-selling novelist Claire Messud, Vogue book critic Megan O’Grady, Elena Ferrante’s U.S. publisher Michael Reynolds, her translator Ann Goldstein, and WBUR’s Christopher Lydon, host of Radio Open Source, for an evening of conversation about the elusive author of the Neapolitan Quartet.

Frantumaglia invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installments of My Brilliant Friend, known in English as the Neapolitan Quartet. Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, it is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing.

Tickets are $5 each or free with the purchase of Frantumaglia. Tickets can be purchased here.