Between June 15 and June 17, 1996, in San Diego, California, Pasquale Verdicchio and Antonio D'Alfonso sat before a microphone and spoke about a number of burning issues. Literature, the politics of publishing, identity, culture, ethnicity, multiculturalism, nationalism: Verdicchio and D'Alfonso tackle these issues in this casual yet intense dialogue. This volume is a perfect companion to D'Alfonso's In Italics (1996) and Verdicchio's Devils in Paradise (1997), both works published by Guernica.