The Italian Job by Jason Horowitz (TICKETED)

Horowitz on living in Rome and reporting on Italy's changes, its challenges, and how the country is rising to meet its future.
About this Event

Join us for a conversation with Jason Horowitz to celebrate his new book, a critical and intimate look at Italy through the eyes of a NYT journalist. He will be in conversation with Maggie Haberman, followed by a signing.

PLEASE NOTE:

• This event is ticketed. Tickets include a copy of the book. (ticket price = $29.99 + sales tax + Eventbrite fee).
• Additional copies of the books will be available while supplies last.
• Book purchase is required to enter the signing line. Only copies of the book purchased from Rizzoli will be signed. No other items will be signed.
• This event is mixed seated/standing. Seats are first come, first served.
• This event starts at 6 pm. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
• Ticketholders who are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their books in store up to two weeks post-event. We can't guarantee signed copies will be available to ticketholders who don't attend the event.
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From the Venetian canals to the Vatican conclaves, New York Times correspondent Jason Horowitz takes you inside Italy, a country where history, culture, and change collide.

More than anywhere else, Italy holds a special place in our imagination as a destination adored for its history, landscapes, and spectacular cuisine. In The Italian Job, Jason Horowitz, Rome bureau chief for The New York Times for eight years, writes about this rich and fascinating culture as someone who knows and appreciates it. But he also tells the story of a nation that, along with its Tuscan sun and bottomless prosecco, now confronts the challenges of climate change, immigration, an aging population, and the rise of the radical right and often tumultuous politics, yet has forged a society built for survival and comity through it all.
In telling this story, Horowitz introduces us to an extraordinary range of characters from Italian history and the modern day, from popes to prime ministers to award-winning chefs, writers, and celebrities and the scientists trying to save Venice, each telling their stories about the country and its culture with wit and insight. Among them too is his Italian wife, Claudia, who first taught him about her country, and their two children, through whom he has developed a more intimate view of Italy, feeling more and more at home there and increasingly confident about its future.

Jason Horowitz is a senior European correspondent for The New York Times who worked for nearly a decade as the paper’s Rome bureau chief, covering Italy, the Vatican, and the region’s culture and politics. He was part of the team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. He got his start in journalism in Rome, where he met his wife as a young reporter, and for more than a quarter century maintained a connection to Italy, both personally and politically. Prior to joining The New York Times in 2013, Jason was the roving political features and profiles writer at The Washington Post, and he has written for The New Yorker, GQ, Vogue, Observer, and other publications. He has two children.

Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent for The New York Times, covering the second Trump administration. She covered Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and his first term in office. In 2018, she was part of a Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which the paper shared with a team from the Washington Post, for coverage of the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.She also won the White House Correspondents' Association's 2018 Aldo Beckman Award and the Newswomen's Club of New York's 2018 Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year. Before joining the Times in 2015, Haberman worked for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and lives with her husband and three children in Brooklyn.