BOOK PRESENTATION 📖 ✨| “CLODIA OF ROME BY DOUGLAS BOIN” | 5TH MAY 2026 , 18:30 PM | Q & A WITH BARBIE LATZA NADEAU
Douglas Boin___ Professor of History at Saint Louis University, is an internationally-recognized author, essayist, and historian of the ancient world whose work explores the relevance of classics to the modern day. Trained in the U.S. and at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, with a decade of field experience at the site of Ostia Antica, he now oversees an international collaboration at Spello in Umbria. The author of five non-fiction books, including Alaric the Goth and Clodia of Rome, he lives in Austin, Texas, with his husband.
Barbie Latza Nadeau___ is an American journalist (CNN and National Geographic) and author based in Rome since 1996. She has written books on human trafficking, organized crime and the mafia. She is currently working on a true crime book called "Alias Rex" about the mysterious murder of a Russian woman in Rome in 2025.
Join us at Almost Corner Bookshop in Rome to celebrate the launch of Izabella Scott’s new book, ‘The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial’ (2026).
‘The Bed Trick’ follows the trials of a queer student convicted of a rare crime known as ‘rape by deception’ in the UK. A conversation between Izabella Scott (@izabella.z.scott ) and artist Eloise Fornieles (@eloisefornieles ) will explore themes of sex, deception, desire, dissent and performance.
📆 7pm, Wednesday 8 April
Almost Corner Bookshop (@almostcornerbookshop )
Via del Moro 45, Rome
🤎 Painting by Isabel Munoz-Newsome (@isabel_m_newsome ): ‘Sad Heap’, oil on wood panel (2025).
Organised by Jahan Khajavi (@jahanxajavi )
‘The Bed Trick’ is out now with @atlanticbooks and coming with @fsgbooks in North America in September.
We are excited to host the current residents of the Giancarlo di Trapano Foundation for a reading in the shop this Friday evening at 7pm. Come cheer, chat, & cheers! @ditrapanofoundation
from this evening’s presentation of “The Art of Being a Stranger: a Family Memoir” with author & illustrator Karen Bermann 📚 #theartofbeingastranger @newjewishpress
Friday 30 January 7pm
The Art of Being a Stranger
with author Karen Bermann
A family memoir told in drawings and text, and in two voices, father and daughter, The Art of Being a Stranger explores the impact of displacement and historical memory across generations.
Karen Bermann is professor emerita of architecture at Iowa State University. She worked on sweat equity rehabilitation in her native New York and taught first-year design in Ames and fourth-year design in Rome, where she lives now.
