Showing posts with label Edith Bruck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edith Bruck. Show all posts
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Ask your library to buy THIS DARKNESS WILL NEVER END

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Did you know you could ask your public or university library to buy a book that you'd like to read? Yes! And that book could be This Da...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

“Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945”

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I write letters to the editor of The New York Times but only occasionally are they accepted. This one below was not but I remain fascinated...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

“When You Listen to This Song: On Memory, Loss, and Writing” (Lola Lafon)

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I've reviewed a short nonfiction book for World Literature Today  called  When You Listen to This Song: On Memory, Loss, and Writing , b...
Monday, June 01, 2026

The 20th anniversary of my blog!

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Two decades ago, I sought a method to log the ways Italy had seduced me, and the activities I pursued so that the language of Dante would re...
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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Memories of the House of the Dead (Luciana Nissim Momogliano)

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File under: What I'm reading I read a very short book on the train to NYC in February by a woman who was deported with Primo Levi: Lucia...
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, April 07, 2026

Book giveaway -- my translation turns one!

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UPDATED --  (see below): To celebrate the one-year anniversary of my translation,  This Darkness Will Never End , I'd like to give away ...
Thursday, April 02, 2026

'This Darkness Will Never End' turns one!

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Once upon a time, I'd never heard of the phrase "book birthday." And now my translation, This Darkness Will Never End , is tur...
Monday, March 30, 2026

'This Darkness Will Never End' is 'powerful,' @Assoc. of Jewish Libraries

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A reviewer writing in the newsletter of the Association of Jewish Libraries highly recommends my translation, This Darkness Will Never End ...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

My lecture on Edith Bruck & 'This Darkness Will Never End'

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Some of my readings have been sparsely attended (ahem!) but each one has brought me great joy because I have had the chance to meet face-to...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Edith Bruck & International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27)

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Unfortunately, I won’t make it to NYC today where outside of the Italian Consulate the names of all of the Italian victims of the Nazis will...
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...
Friday, January 02, 2026

At a little library near you: 'This Darkness Will Never End'

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UPDATED I've been dropping off copies of the translation at little libraries, including the one in Washington Market Park in Manhattan...
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...
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...
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, October 02, 2025

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

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UPDATED -- SEE VIDEO LINK BELOW Thanks to the amazing English department at Otterbein University in Ohio, I'll be giving a talk about ...
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, August 28, 2025

Edith Bruck is alive and well!

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During our trip to Italy , I was lucky to see many friends I'd known in Florence, but perhaps the most important meeting took place near...