Michael Paterniti is the New York Times bestselling author of Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein’s Brain. His writing has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Harper’s, Outside, Esquire, and GQ, where he works as a correspondent. Paterniti has been nominated eight times for the National Magazine Award, and is the recipient of a NEA grant and two MacDowell Fellowships. He is the co-founder of a children’s storytelling center in Portland, Maine, where he lives with his wife and their three children.
“Captivating . . . Paterniti’s writing sings, whether he’s talking
about how food activates memory, or the joys of watching his
children grow.”—NPR
“A gorgeous and impassioned monument to the art and mystery of
storytelling, The Telling Room is rich, funny, humane, devastating,
and beautiful. It made me want to applaud, it made me want to cry,
it made me want to move to Spain. Michael Paterniti is a
genius.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
“Unforgettable . . . a must-read for all who think of Spain as
magical, who consider cheese as the ultimate gift of love, who love
stories of betrayal, despair, revenge and redemption.”—The Wall
Street Journal
“The Telling Room embodies the spirit of slow food and
life.”—Michael Pollan
“Elegant, strange, funny, and insightful, The Telling Room is a
marvelous tale and a joyful read, a trip into a world peopled by
some of the most remarkable characters—and, yes, cheese—in
memory.”—Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief
“By the time you hit the tenth page of The Telling Room, you
realize you’re in the hands of a storyteller so masterful,
emotionally subtle, and smooth that you’re willing to follow him
anywhere, even into a cave. And you will.”—The Daily Beast
“Rich and shaggy, full of Castilian-size detours . . . one hugely
likable book.”—The Boston Globe
“Exquisite . . . [a] gripping tale. [Grade:] A”—Entertainment
Weekly
“Breathtakingly cinematic . . . reads like Bill Buford’s Heat,
conveying the passions of both author and subject, but with David
Foster Wallace’s gift for digression.”—The Tampa Bay Times
“Paterniti dives deeply into Spain’s political history, the
pleasures of craft, and the motives and methods of storytelling
itself.”—Harper’s
“Few writers can write about the taste of food with Paterniti’s
vibrancy and precision. . . . [He] is a master of finding and
telling great stories (the finding, for most writers, often being
as difficult as the telling) that appear to be about something
small, such as cheese, but are actually about something far
larger—in this case, the whole of human existence. . . . As much as
The Telling Room is about a Spaniard’s quest to create a cheese
that embodies all the love and pain and joy he’s ever known, it’s
also the story of a writer’s quest to channel that obsession into
the perfect story.”—Esquire
“For my money, Paterniti is one of the most expansive and joyful
writers around—big-hearted and humane and funny. This book is a
wild and amazing ride.”—George Saunders, author of Tenth of
December
“The list of writers I would read even if they were to write about
a piece of cheese has always been short, but it includes Michael
Paterniti. He has proved here that if you love something enough and
pay a passionate enough attention to it, the whole world can become
present in it.”—John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead
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