Fourbooks
The “FourBooks” is a wikievent, a literary rave, a mosaic of small celebrations of staying together, a reader’s festival that, thanks to the Web, manage to link a lot of people and happenings already ready to born and go on autonomously.
Maybe reading won’t make you live longer, but it can improve your quality of life: backed with this philosophy, on 17th september 2008 some cafés all around Italy opened to readers and friends for an anarchic festival of popular literature. Not only classics, but poetry, best sellers, thrillers, graphic novels and comics, love stories and still unknown book, were read by a crowd of common people who decided to share a moment and something they like to stay together. Because life is easier if you share it with someone, and we should try to build new models of sociability nearer to people’s needs.
Why cafés? Cafés in Italy are places where always you can take a quick coffee with a friend or, if you have a little bit more time between “all-the-things-to-do”, you can have a cappuccino, some ice cream and take your time, speaking also with the barman. Cafés are places to relax and meet people at every hour. “Reading FourBooks at the Café” tries to match small, simple cultural happenings to the pleasure of meet each other through reading together loudly in meeting places already existing all around Italy and the world. If it’s not a café, it can be at a pub, a restaurant, a cultural associacion, a dining room or a courtyard opened for few our to share a reading: what does really matter is that, while loneliness and bore seems to prevail in big towns and in society in general, the subtle pleasure of chatting and dreaming together is a small step towards a sociability at hand.
How to join
If you want to participate and organize a “shared” reading – even out of the big event that happens once a year - contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or  call us at +39 334 74 33 487. On our website we will publish readers, texts and cafés you’ll tell us, while you can hang the poster of what you’re going to do, at what time and what day at the chosen café’s wall.
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