There is no formula or model for crafting a successful book. Thrillers and love stories sell the most, but in reality the book that has sold the most copies in America in the last decade is a book…
If we want to talk about prolific authors, we cannot fail to mention a writer and journalist, certainly more a journalist than a writer, with such a fertile vein that he left behind a hundred books and a few thousand articles. A name today…
Novecento opere The protagonist of the 29th episode of the series of best-selling Italian authors is a narrator of extremely high narrative prolificacy. It is the Neapolitan writer Francesco Mastriani, very close, even narratively, to his city and to Southern Italy. From many…
Vamba: children's literature is born with a bad and mischievous model "Gian Burrasca". Long live pappa con pomodoro by Michele Giocondi and Mario Mancini And here we are at the 28th episode of the series by the best-selling Italian authors. Take the field…
Resurrection of a book The 27th episode of the series by Italian best-selling authors is dedicated to the story of a resurrection. That of a book. The history of books is sometimes tortuous, almost like that of our lives, and in…
BESTSELLER COLUMN - The story of the South African writer, who at the age of 86 continues to be one of the most popular worldwide.
Here we are at the 20th episode of the series of best-selling Italian authors. It's the turn of Achille Campanile, a unicum in Italian literary history. After Campanile we will interrupt the series to resume it in September with new and other bestselling authors, even of different…
Here we are at the 19th episode of the series of best-selling Italian authors. An episode starring Giovannino Guareschi, the most translated Italian writer in the world. Talented writer, but also brilliant humorist and fulminating character actor and…
The 20th appointment with the bestselling authors of Italian publishing does not have a pure storyteller as its protagonist, but an eclectic author whose activity has been expressed in many fields, especially in what we would call styles today…
The 19th appointment with the best-selling writers of Italian literature meets the most unusual of writers, Giuseppe TOMASI of LAMPEDUSA. Writer by chance, the greatest editorial case in the panorama of Italian literature.
Here we are at the 18th installment of our series on the bestselling writers of Italian literature from the unification of Italy to the Republic. It is the turn of a lady whose importance in Italian cultural history goes beyond mere literature to assume a…
Salgari was also a great experimenter of the Italian language with which he hypnotized the reader by teleporting him into the exotic environments of his novels. He here is an example of teleportation taken from the first chapter of The Brahmin of Assam: “A huge chariot, formed of beams…
After the parentheses of Oriana Fallaci and Umberto Eco, two contemporaries, we return to dealing with history with Edmondo De Amicis who is the protagonist of the 16th episode of our series on bestselling authors of the past. The Ligurian writer was…
A glorious profession like that of printers no longer attracts either investments or workers, who were once the aristocracy of the working class - In the US during the Christmas period many publishers - faced with the sales boom - are not…
Some might turn up their noses when reading this new episode of our series on best-selling authors, seeing the one, who has been our most prestigious intellectual for decades, inserted in the same cauldron as Pitigrilli, Da Verona…
We are in the ninth episode of our series on bestselling writers and our appointment is with a writer who has undoubtedly marked an important page in the culture and customs of our country: Oriana Fallaci.
Here we are with a new episode of our series of bestsellers of the past. It is the turn, after Liala, again of a woman, but not of the past, but totally contemporary. We are talking about Sveva Casati Modignani, a refined and…
The most famous customer of the George and Vulture Tavern in London was that it never existed except in the mind of its creator, Charles Dickens, and in the hearts of his readers: Pickwick Esquire, the buxom, bespectacled hero of…
Today the romance novel is very popular. Some recent data on fiction trends in the United States, the leading book publishing country, show that the share (by both titles and sell-outs) of the romance novel in adult fiction is 40,63%,…
For the series of "Bestsellers of the past" it is time to make a foray into the contemporary world to deal with an English writer who has relaunched a genre that had ended up in the attic: the historical novel.
The review of the great national and international exhibitions and the ninth episode of the bestsellers of the past, this time dedicated to a multifaceted personality like that of Lucio D'Ambra, are the flagship services of FIRST Arte this weekend.
We have reached our ninth appointment with our series of reports on bestselling writers of the past. It is the turn of Lucio D'Ambra who was much more than a writer of immensely successful novels, since…
For this appointment with the bestsellers of the past we present the first writer of the series, Carolina Invernizio. We know that writing is one of the fields in which female talent and specificity are powerfully expressed. In all the statistics on…
An appeal to civil protest against the degradation and ruin of Piazza San Marco and its famous Basilica, marred once again by Venice's high tide, the review of past bestsellers and the make-up boom…
Here we are at the sixth episode of the series on Italian bestselling writers. It is the turn of Salvator Gotta, a writer with a profound Piedmontese character and infinite talent who embraces all genres of the cultural industry: from fiction, to children's books, to non-fiction, to…
Umberto Notari was one of the most controversial writers of the last century and is remembered as the man of censures, controversies and records. The protagonist of the fourth appointment of the review of twentieth-century bestsellers of FIRST Arte is the man…
After the resounding success of his book "Quelle Signore" on brothels in the early years of the twentieth century, Umberto Notari developed an impressive activity as a successful writer and editor, animated the anticlerical battles but in the end tarnished his brilliant…
After Guido Da Verona and Pitigrilli, FIRST Arte reviews another figure of reference in Italian literature of the past, that of Mario Mariani.
Another darling of post-war readers Alongside the figures of Guido Da Verona and Pitigrilli, Mario Mariani cannot pass over in silence, as he was a polemicist, a philosopher and a courageous politician, an apostle of…
First episodes of the bestsellers of Italians of the past on FIRST Arte - After the profile of Guido da Verona, the satellite site of FIRSTonline dedicated to the world of art and cultural current affairs, presents Pitigrilli, an eccentric and beyond the…
After Guido da Verona, we publish the second article by Michele Giocondi and Mario Mancini in the series of reports on the great Italian bestselling writers of the past.
According to bestselling writer Jerry Bruce Jenkins, the 3 challenges to overcome to become a book author are: 1) learn the trade from those who do this trade; 2) write something shorter than a book; 3) enter to make…
Building a bestselling book is something that would have intrigued Cagliostro - Goldman Sachs analysts, who are able to predict the performance of a material asset with sniper accuracy, raise the white flag when called upon to…
Cervantes, whose 400th death anniversary falls, was at the origins of a media revolution similar to today's and was immediately aware of his target audience - his Don Quixote was an instant bestseller
We publish the second part of Michele Giocondi's essay in the volume "Schermocracy. Book or ebook" published by goWare, which reviews the major Italian literary cases ranging from the period between the two wars, with the…
We publish the first part of Michele Giocondi's essay in "Schermocracy. Book or ebook" published by goWare: we review the major Italian literary cases, from the point of view of copies sold, and the authors of the bestsellers, often unexpected,…
