Le Conversazioni: The writers' conference so elite you've never even heard of it. Last year Zadie Smith, David Fosty Wally, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, and some other guy met on the Isle of Capri to talk about language and identity. Next week it happens again with Ethan Coen, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Chuck Palahniuk, and Claire Messud, talking about the intersection between literature and cinema.

YouTube has clips of last year's event, but the real meat is at the leconversazioni.it site itself.

Via MeFi. I'm going to be looking through this all day.