Warning: Talking To This Author Can Be Hazardous To Your Reputation

When author John Berendt laid the city of Savannah, Georgia bare in his bestselling book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, many of the town’s residents were aghast at what they saw as an invasion of civic privacy and a betrayal of their good will. Now, months after Berendt’s latest tome (an examination of the burning of Venice’s La Fenice opera house,) the complaints are starting up all over again – this time, in Italian.