Mark Rotella is the author of Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria, published last year by FSG/ North Point Press, and was selected as part of the Borders Original Voice series. He has written articles and book reviews for The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Sun, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St. Petersburg Times, the Village Voice and Newsday. He is currently at work on a book on the great Italian-American singers of popular song. Until recently, he was a Forecast editor at Publishers Weekly.

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