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Join the award-winning novelist/journalist Ana Menendez when she introduces 1960’s “La Dolce Vita” then participates in a Q&A with the public. Showtime is 4 p.m. Saturday, November 9.
LA DOLCE VITA | 1960 | DIRECTOR: Federico Fellini | WITH: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee | RUNNING TIME: 2H 54M | UNRATED Contains sexual content, brief violence and adult themes | PROJECTED IN 4K DCP
Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning masterpiece tracks the misadventures of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Ana Menéndez has published five books of fiction: The Apartment (2023), Adios, Happy Homeland! (2011), The Last War (2009), Loving Che (2004) and In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd (2001), whose title story won a Pushcart Prize. She has worked as a journalist in the United States and abroad, lastly as a prize-winning columnist for The Miami Herald.
As a reporter, she wrote about Cuba, Haiti, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and India. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Bomb Magazine, The New York Times and Tin House and has been included in several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. She has a BA in English from Florida International University and an MFA from New York University.
From 2008 to 2009, she lived in Cairo as a Fulbright Scholar in Egypt. She has also lived in India, Turkey, Slovakia and The Netherlands, where she designed a creative writing minor at Maastricht University in 2011. For the past 20 years, she has taught at various writing conferences and programs including, most recently, Bread Loaf and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
She lives in Miami and is currently an associate professor of English at FIU.
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