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Jenny McPhee, a writer and translator, is the director of the Center for Applied Liberal Arts at NYU’s School of Professional Studies. Her translations from Italian have included books by Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, Giacomo Leopardi, and Curzio Malaparte. She is also the author of the novels The Center of Things (2001), No Ordinary Matter (2004), and A Man of No Moon (2007). (May 2020)
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