Nemo propheta in patria

[reviews_and_ramblings]

that, if you don't know latin, means: "Nobody is a prophet in [their] homeland". Or at least it's true if you don't have a friend like Ryan Field (ryan_field). He told me sometime ago he was asked for an interview from an Italian reporter, a woman; when he told me her name, I went searching and found she worked for L'Espresso. Probably if you are not Italian you don't know it, but this is one of the most important news magazine in Italy, more or less like Time magazine in the US. It's a mix of politics, economics and also actuality.

So it's with a great pleasure that today I found the online version and tomorrow I will rush to buy the paper one. For once they even spelled my name correctly.

I'd like to be in the reporter's mind: she went on the other side of the ocean to interview an author on a new "trendy" genre, the Gay Romance, and the author told her that he daily read an Italian blogger! And the reporter probably is wondering who this blogger is, since most of the time, despite my very bad English, people don't understand that I'm actually Italian and living in Italy.

If you want the link to the article it's here:

http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio/ryan-field/2132486

But it's in Italian. I will try to translate the last second question, the one where Ryan Field told the Italian reporter about me:

What are your references for Erotica?
"I honestly have none. I try not to read other authors so as not to be influenced. But I'm a fan of Anais Nin. She is wonderful: a classic. I also read many blogs about love stories between men. I love the Italian reviewer Elisa Rolle, whose blog I read every day."

Comments

[girlofavalon.livejournal.com]

OMG! He mentioned you in an interview to L'Espresso? You must be on top of the world right now ;)

[ryan-field.livejournal.com]

Hi Elisa...

It must be telepathy, because I was thinking about you this afternoon.

Thanks for posting about this and letting me know. I would not have had a clue as to when the article was published if you hadn't said anything. (But I haven't checked my yahoo e-mail all day either, so there could be something there :)

Ryan

[elizaben.livejournal.com]

Way to go Elisa! First we take L' Espresso... ;)

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Joseph Campbell: "Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that wouldn't even exist for someone else."

Campbell's work on myth is now some of the best-known, but when he started he was a penniless student who wanted to go to college during the Great Depression.

[aileenfan.livejournal.com]

I was learning Italian once, now I have a reason to refresh it:)

[tizi17.livejournal.com]

congratulazioni!
is it in this week's issue? i have to get it..

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, there is space between me and the floor ;-)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I also bought the paper version. The article is different there, but your are the same quoted in an article about epublishing in general. I will send it to you.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

In the paper version I'm not mentioned but Ryan yes, so it's all the same nice.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I don't think I will be famous, but it's nice to have a spotlight myself ;-)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yes, and it's online so you can easily save it for later, when you will understand everything!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yes, this week. But in the paper version there is a general article about epublishing, and Ryan Field's interview is mentioned, but not fully printed. So I'm only there, in the online page.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

"Famous" in the chasing-paparazzi away with a club" sense, maybe not, and so much the better. But reviewers are influential, and you've already got an international reputation. And you deserve it!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I'm always surprise when I receive a letter from a reader thanking me for my reviews. I'm happy when it's an author doing that, but a reader is the best thing, since I know that I'm helping someone to browse in this genre that is huge.

[ryan-field.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)