Drip, Drop, Drippity-Drop

Antonio Tabucchi (1943–2012), one of Italy’s best-known contemporary authors, wrote prizewinning novels, stories, and essays. The mutability of time and identity, a thematic through-line in all his work, is particularly evident in Time Ages in a Hurry, his glistening final collection of stories, to be published in 2015 by Archipelago Books.

Martha Cooley is the author of two novels—The Archivist, a national bestseller published in a dozen foreign markets, and Thirty-Three Swoons—and a memoir, Guesswork. She co-translated Antonio Tabucchi’s Time Ages in a Hurry and the poetry of Giampiero Neri and Loris Jacopo Bononi. Her short fiction, essays, and co-translations have appeared in A Public Space, The Common, AGNI, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She is professor of English at Adelphi University. (updated 9/2019)

Antonio Romani is a former teacher and bookseller whose translations have appeared in A Public Space, AGNI, and PEN America. With co-translator Martha Cooley, he has published translations of the short fiction of Antonio Tabucchi and the poetry of Giampiero Neri and Loris Jacopo Bononi. (updated 11/2014)