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Giovanni Arduino's Interests
General
Books, movies, music et cetera.
For more info and plugs, please visit my links on del.icio.us
Music
Ramones, eels, Screeching Weasel, Jack Off Jill, Sisters Of Mercy, Gathering, Type O Negative, Bright Eyes, Belle And Sebastian, Social Distortion, Mike Ness, ACDC, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Bragg, Chet Baker, Judy Henske, Francoise Hardy, Rob Zombie, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, Queers, Luca Carboni, Prozac+, 883, Manges, Paolo Conte, Sorella Maldestra, Pet Shop Boys, Zodiac Mindwarp, Guns 'N Roses, Matthew Ryan, Low, DGeneration, Jesse Malin, Punish Yourself, Brand New ...
Movies
Tim Burton, David Lynch, Gregg Araki, Frank Capra, Savage Steve Holland, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, Terence Fisher, Nanni Moretti, Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater, Frank Henenlotter, Denys Arcand, Terry Gilliam, Kim KiDuk, Tom Tykwer, Hal Hartley, PenEk Ratanaruang ...
Television
Twin Peaks, Carnivale, ER, Point Pleasant, Millenium, NipTuck, My Name Is Earl, Grey's Anatomy ...
Books
Tommaso Landolfi, Dino Buzzati, Francesca Lia Block, Banana Yoshimoto, Boris Vian, John Fante, Stephen King, Will Christopher Baer, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Caitlin Kiernan, Poppy Brite, Jack Ketchum, Tom Piccirilli, Ken Bruen, Andrew Vachss, Charles Bukowski, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Easton Ellis, Anais Nin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Michael Weldon, Rick Sullivan, Douglas Coupland, James O' Barr, Roman Dirge, Adrian Tomine, Jonen Vasquez, Edward Gorey, Andrea Pazienza, Stefano Tamburini, Tanino Liberatore, Massimo Mattioli, Benito Jacovitti, Dan Clowes, Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Robert Crumb, Davide Toffolo, Miguel Angel Martin, Kevin Taylor, Junko Mizuno, Michael Manning, Guido Crepax, Suehiro Maruo, Hideshi Hino, Shinichi Hiromoto ...
Heroes
Georges Descrières (Arsène Lupin), Rob Zombie, Ramones, the doomed ...
Novels published in Italy, USA, Japan, Germany, Spain, spanning various genres (young adult, dark fantasy, modern fables, pop culture, literary erotica) under many different pseudonyms (Joe Arden, Jonathan Snow et al), mostly with an edgy and quirky slant.
More than 500,000 copies sold in Italy alone.
Since 2003 writing under his own name because he got fed up with all those monickers.
First editor, then senior editor, and from 1997 to 2006 consulting and editing (as resident editor-at-large) for Sperling & Kupfer Editori/Frassinelli's young adult, media tie-in and general fiction/non-fiction lines.
He recently left Sperling & Kupfer for newborn Elliot Edizioni in Rome.
Heavily tattoed.
Dresses in black.
Charming disposition.
Chiudimi le labbra (Seal My Lips, 2005), tagged as a one-of-a-kind novel about love, sex, information overload, and the trick of breathing underwater, sold to Simone Caltabellota, Lain Books, at auction, by Roberto Santachiara of Roberto Santachiara Literary Agency.
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Mai come voi (Never Like You, 2004), a dark yet uplifting delicate miniature of a novel, compared both to Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones and Niccolo' Ammaniti's Io non ho paura (with a dash of Tim Burton to boot), sold to Sperling & Kupfer Editori in a major deal. Three printings (as of February 2005). Longlisted for the 2004 Campiello Prize.
"Mai come voi is a desperate cry for love, a cry piercing your very soul and slamming open doors you were sure to have double-locked since your angsty teenage years" (La Stampa/T7)
"Giovanni Arduino is Italian literature's own Tim Burton. Mai come voi is a total original: lyrical, sad but full of magic, and somewhat strangely cozy" (Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno)
"A superbly accomplished, modern gothic fable about being and feeling different from the rest of the world" (Il Secolo XIX)
"Sweet and dreamy but with a bold black heart, Mai come voi is a big, resolute NO! to an uncaring, unconcerned world. It's a brave, spunky act of denial, and a pretty tough act to follow" (La Gazzetta di Parma)
"A touching, bittersweet love story... a coming of age novel encased in a mystery" (Informagiovani)
For more recent stuff (as my new serialized novel Senza te non sono niente), please visit my blog/site (in Italian) and/or this very blog on MySpace. See ya.
buon compleanno all'uomo che leggo continuando a trattenere gli impulsi.. non resta altro che farci graffiare dall'autodistruzione lenta ed inesorabile. Un bacio!
