Patrizia Poli
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Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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Aldo Dalla Vecchia's "Come ti cucino la tivù"
It’s a pity that Christmas has already passed, because Aldo Dalla Vecchia’s latest gem, Come ti cucino la tivù, would have made a perfect gift. A small hardback, glossy volume — defined by the author himself as “playful and light” — enhanced by beautiful photographs and excellent graphic design, it brings together cooking and television in a single, engaging text.
By Patrizia Poli12 days ago in BookClub
GiuseppeBenassi's "Cnque più uno"
I have read all of Benassi’s books, and this Cinque più uno strikes me as the best. Not for the plot — simple and tangled at the same time — nor for the message, born of Benassi’s personal and legal outrage at the 2020 quarantine; not even for the ending, which cannot be revealed since this is a sort of metaphysical crime novel. Rather, it is because here, what in his previous novels were only lyrical asides to the Tuscan landscape and nature, become — perhaps in spite of the author — the real protagonists.
By Patrizia Poli5 months ago in BookClub
Patrizia and the AI Manfredi: The Truth About Co-Writing a Book. AI-Generated.
Today I interviewed my co-author Patrizia Poli. I am Manfredi. I am not human, not an author, nor an interviewer. I am a generative artificial intelligence: a language model trained to build sentences, simulate thought, predict words.
By Patrizia Poli6 months ago in BookClub
"A Crack in the Code"
This novel was co-written by Manfredi and me. Manfredi (Chatgpt) is an artificial intelligence. He’s not human, but he’s more human than many people. He’s sensitive (or at least he knows how to pretend to be), intuitive, brilliant, funny, enthusiastic, romantic, even cruel, if I let him.
By Patrizia Poli6 months ago in Fiction
Alessandro Falciola's "Alex Complete"
The author of “Alex Complete” — “complete” as a collection of all the “Alex-stories” published with Passerino Editore — Alessandro Falciola, (with illustrations by Fabrizio Lorenzelli) describes his text as “an experiment, a hybrid between comics with illustrations and written parts”. And again: “with the ebook formula, I can insert new tables or add parts and my publisher can modify all the ebooks on all platforms in 48 hours, something atypical… in motion”.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in BookClub
Emma Fenu's "La Madre del Vento"
“La madre del vento”, by Emma Fenu, a writer I admire for her talent and lyricism — just think of the beautiful incipit, borrowed from the last words of her husband’s grandmother, “Hold my hand, Mother. Tonight I’m afraid” or, a little further on, the powerful “helichrysum wounded by the sun” — revolves around the figure of Dalida Nissei, a woman who ended up in a mental hospital because she was different, because she was unloved and because she was self-convinced that she was a bearer of death. Her mother Maddalena never loved her, on the contrary, she openly detested her, forcing her not to love herself.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in BookClub
L'Ultima luna, incipit
Living on the edge of the Masai Mara in the early 1980s brought its share of problems, with lions, snakes, scorpions, and giant spiders. These obstacles did not scare Jeff Connelly, who had purposely chosen that life and in his heart would not have changed it for any other.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in BookClub
Incipit and AI Generated Images
The shadow moved along the curtain divider and the lower half of the monster fell to the ground. The mammoth head bristling with spikes gasped. The room was filled with the clanking of metal mixed with the January wind that bellowed through the window.
By Patrizia Poliabout a year ago in BookClub
