Author: Anastasia Rubis in Conversation with Laurie Albanese

The writer and journalist discusses her novel “Oriana: A Novel of Oriana Fallaci” with Laurie Albanese.

Tea and cookies will be served. Book signing to follow.

Anastasia Rubis has written the first biographical novel about Oriana Fallaci, the brilliant and glamorous Italian journalist who blazed a trail for women in the '60s and '70s with her provocative interviews of world leaders and celebrities, but struggled in her personal life to find love and happiness. ​Fallaci is placed in the same category as Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace when naming the greatest interviewers of all time and is widely considered as a trailblazer who broke through the glass ceiling of journalism, but the story of her career and her great love is little-known in America — until now.

About the Author: Anastasia Rubis’ writing has appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post, New York Observer, Creative Nonfiction, North American Review, [PANK], Fiction International and Literary Mama. One of her stories, “Girl Falling,” was named a Notable Essay in Best Essays of 2014. Another, “Blue Pools,” was included in the anthology Oh, Baby published by Creative Nonfiction and edited by Lee Gutkind. She co-wrote and co-directed a 13-minute documentary titled Breakfast Lunch Dinner: The Greek Diner Story on YouTube. She earned a BA magna cum laude from Brown University and an MA from Montclair State University, where she taught essay writing. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter and spends summers in Greece, where her parents were born.

About the Moderator: Laurie Lico Albanese has published fiction, poetry, journalism, travel writing, creative nonfiction, and memoir. Her books include "Hester," "Stolen Beauty," "Blue Suburbia: Almost a Memoir," "Lynelle by the Sea," and "The Miracles of Prato," co-written with art historian Laura Morowitz. Laurie lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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