![]() ![]() Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father's arrest.įifteen years later, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Leading Men was published in February 2019 by Viking Penguin, and is currently being adapted for film.The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena His newest novel is Leading Men, for which he received Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, a collection of essays on point of view in fiction, was published in 2016 by Graywolf Press. He is the author of A Kiss from Maddalena (Algonquin Books, 2003)-winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in 2004- The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin, 2005), a BookSense (IndieBound) Notable Book and All This Talk of Love (Algonquin, 2013), a New York Times Editors’ Choice and finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Literary Award. He currently lives in Boston, where he is the artistic director of Grub Street, the country’s largest and leading independent creative writing center. It is a love letter to life’s bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls “a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.”Īnthony Marra is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award.Ĭhristopher Castellani is the son of Italian immigrants and a native of Wilmington, Delaware. Written with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father’s past threatens Maria’s carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father’s fate-and her own. Over the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European émigrés: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. And the studio itself, Maria’s only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. ![]() Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can’t escape the studio’s narrow typecasting. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father’s arrest.įifteen years later, on the eve of America’s entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. ![]() This event will take place on Monday, August 15 at 7:30pm ET at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition. Tickets are $5 and and can be used as a coupon towards your purchase of Mercury Pictures Presents the night of the event. Please note that masks will be required for all attendees. Porter Square Books is happy to welcome Anthony Marra for the release his novel, Mercury Pictures Presents! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2022 by BookPage, Mercury Pictures Presents is "The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena." Joining him in conversation will be Christopher Castellani, author and artistic director of GrubStreet. ![]()
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