nottetempo is an independent publishing house founded in 2002 with around 150 titles in its catalogue. The editorial project is to combine high quality literary fiction with the pleasure of reading, good literature with the idea of intensity and lightness. This is expressed also by the layout that ensures readability and lightness. Our authors include Philip Larkin, Iris Murdoch, Alberto Manguel, Jean-Philip Toussaint, Milena Agus, Naomi Alderman, Juan José Saer, Umberto Eco and Lee Stringer… Alongside the contemporary list, some classics: Stevenson, Dickens, Colette, Yourcenar… nottetempo has also several non-fiction series (reportage, philosophy, portraits and interviews) aimed at offering committed writing and pleasurable reading. We publish great thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, Giorgio Agamben, Edward Said and Slavoj Zizek. From the very beginning one of our main focuses has been the search for a constant dialogue with the international publishing scene, both in discovering authors to be translated and in promoting our Italian authors in other countries. We believe that one of the best guarantees of good editorial choices is through close and attentive cultural exchange, which is the core and aim of publishing. Our series are: in fiction narrativa: new and old stories, told by writers from all around the world Il pesanervi: fantasy literature, science-fiction, noirs, detective and spy stories in non-fiction cronache: facts and crucial events of our time, recounted by direct witnesses figure: intense and brilliant essays on figures in art and thought ritratti: artists, philosophers, writers, great characters of our time, captured in their everyday life, in the intimacy of creation and also sassi: small, unpublished texts, swift as arrows, sharp as flint gransassi: short-stories, essays, thoughts: small books for curious readers.
