Ioana Parvulescu is a former editor at Romania literara, a literary magazine where she published a weekly column for 18 years. She launched and coordinated the Night Table Books collection at Humanitas, a major Bucharest publishing house, which ran for 10 years. She has published more than 10 books, and also translated from French and German. Her books include Return to the Inter-war Bucharest, In the Thick of the Nineteenth Century, and Life Begins on Friday. She is currently a Professor at the Bucharest Faculty of Letters where she teaches modern Romanian literature.