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Stephen Riggio, Former Barnes & Noble CEO

Season 2024, Ep. 10.23

Former CEO of Barnes & Noble, Stephen Riggio, joins Lisa Wexler to discuss his life after retirement, taking on an extraordinary project of translating a major Sicilian novel from Italian into English titled: LUIGI NATOLI’S SICILIAN AVENGERS: A Novel (Books 1 and 2).

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