Showing posts with label Bookstores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bookstores. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Postcard from Montreal (2026)

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I'm terribly behind on blogging about Montreal but let me quickly say it's one of my favorite cities in the whole wide world. I lov...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Commonwealth Books (Boston) & the book I had to buy

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Walking around Boston one afternoon before a concert in 2024, Mike and I stumbled into a used bookstore on a sidestreet. It was one of those...
Friday, August 14, 2026

What I bought at ll Libraccio (Firenze)

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There are many fine bookstores in Florence but Il Libraccio is particularly helpful when you're looking for hard-to-find and possibly o...
Saturday, July 04, 2026

Re-discovering New Haven for CNN Travel

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I got to visit New Haven on the company dime and I enjoyed every minute of it. Now you can, too -- here's my story . It's part of a ...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

What I bought at I AM Books in Boston (2026)

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Last year, I gave a talk  about my translation, This Darkness Will Never End , at the Italian bookstore in Boston. It was wonderful to spea...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

What I read in 2025

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Not a great year in reading for me and I am all to blame, a self-inflicted wound owing to distraction and commitments related to the transla...
Sunday, January 04, 2026

Please review 'This Darkness Will Never End' on Amazon

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I've been talking up my translation every way I can -- blogposts , public readings, bookfairs, Facebook messages, a trip to Ohio, mentio...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Meeting Donatella Di Pietrantonio at Rizzoli this year

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At an event at Rizzoli in Manhattan earlier this year, I asked Donatella Di Pietrantonio to autograph one of her books that I love --  L...
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...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Memento shrine (Italy) 2025

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Christmas morning for me, if somehow instead of Santa Claus coming down the chimney it was Babbo Natale . My memento shrine, the haul from t...
Saturday, June 07, 2025

Scenes from a mini-book tour -- THIS DARKNESS WILL NEVER END

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I arranged a small book tour to support the publication of my translation, This Darkness Will Never End , but secretly it was a friends-and-...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

What I bought at I AM Books (Boston)

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I don't get to visit Italian bookstores often because well, I live in America and there aren't many Italian bookstores here (more Fr...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Newtonville Books is book heaven

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I had the honor of reading at Newtonville Books in the Boston area yesterday and I am slightly mad at the words I am writing because they s...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Ciambellina reads at Boston's Italian bookstore

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Tonight! I'll be reading at I AM Books in Boston. That's Beantown's Italian bookstore! A place I've long wanted to visit (an...
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Saturday, April 05, 2025

Come to a reading of 'This Darkness Will Never End'!

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(UPDATED) As the official publication date (Apr. 22) of my translation approaches, I bring news of several readings I'll be doing in th...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

What I bought at Rizzoli (Jan. 2025)

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I had to travel light when a few weeks ago I visited Rizzoli , my favorite bookstore in New York City : so just two books. But the one by Do...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Montreal Journal & the joys of travel in 2023

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I go to Montreal to speak Italian and shop at an Italian grocery store. And this year, I got to do both when I visited the Francophile Cana...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

What I read in 2023 & what I plan to read in 2024

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(UPDATED) I had a special mission this year to immerse myself in Holocaust narrative so I could find a publisher for the short stories I a...
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Monday, October 10, 2022

Pilgrimages I made in Italy (Il Libraccio -- Milano)

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I visited as many bookstores as possible when I was in Italy, and had the joy finally of shopping at Il Libraccio (Milano branch), which I ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The Italian trip memento group photo

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How did it start? Why would you do it? Who can say? But as far back as when I lived in Allentown (at least), I've been gathering all the...