Rocco CARBONE (born 1962, Reggio Calabria) is a literary critic and cultural commentator for Rome's Il Messagero and Naples' Il Mattino, and L'Unita. Dr. Carbone's novels include Agosto (1993), Il Commando (1996) and L'Assedio (The Siege), 1998, and The Apparition, to be published this year. He is taking part in the IWP through the US Department of State.