Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Edith Bruck & My Year in Translation (2025)

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It was the year of the milestone for me -- I published my first book-length translation, This Darkness Will Never End . I both love and hate...

What I'm reading: Ginzburg, sempre Ginzburg

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I keep a book log of what I read, and it's now evolved into more of a book journal because I love noting passages that intrigue me. And ...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

Come to a reading in Northampton on Dec. 8

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Event alert! I'll be reading from my translation, This Darkness Will Never End , on Monday at the Forbes Library in Northampton, Massach...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Why you should press 'record' on Thanksgiving (my Bos. Globe essay)

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I'm reposting a version of  an essay I wrote for The Boston Globe several years ago that contains some advice I still like to offer fol...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

Please Give the Gift of Reading ‘This Darkness Will Never End’

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As long as I'm alive ,  so are they -- in my books, in my heart. This precious thought is one of many that Edith Bruck ("my author...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

What I’m reading: 'John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs'

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What I’m reading: John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs It’s been a while since I have devoured a book the way I am reading this book. ...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

The coolest thing: praise for “The Quiet Exhilaration of Learning Italian”

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An academic in Italy read the essay I wrote for The Millions about learning to speak Italian and reposted it to LinkedIn with the most amaz...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

My favorite photo of Florence?

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I took this photo one morning over the summer as I walked the streets of "my city." Firenze. Florence. The City of Dante. Also: T...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

'The age I lost everyone and everything' (my lecture at Otterbein)

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Thanks to the amazing English department at Otterbein University in Ohio, I'll be giving a talk about my translation  on Thursday. The ...
Friday, September 05, 2025

What I never say (Liz)

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I was thinking recently about my Edith Bruck translation and all of the public readings I’d completed when suddenly I realized I'd only ...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

Liz Bonner, Feb. 16, 1969 - Sept. 6, 2023

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Eulogy for Liz . Sept. 9, 2023. I’d like to first of all thank you for coming – by coming, you tell me that you cared about Liz, and I’d lik...