Showing posts with label What I'm reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What I'm reading. Show all posts
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...
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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...
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...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Jeanne journals

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I don't like it when the word 'journal' is used as a verb.  Let's journal about this. OR: She spent the afternoon journalin...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

What I'm Reading: Nobody's Girl

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Reviewing books is one of many tasks I've taken on since dedicating myself to writing more than a decade ago.  But I typically review I...
Friday, February 06, 2026

The best magazine you've never read (unless you're 12)

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When “The Week Junior”  arrives in the mail, my 12-year-old son sits down immediately to read it cover to cover. One quick look at its smart...
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 11, 2026

What I'm Reading: The Art of X-Ray Reading

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Writers are readers, right? They have to be, and the author of the book, The Art of X-Ray Reading : How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Lit...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

To the ends of the word...: The Bishop's Bedroom by Piero Chiara

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I am not the only one who enjoyed The Bishop's Bedroom ! Happy to share this link to a review of the work by Piero Chiara, which was tr...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

A poem for today? The Second Coming by Yeats

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(First stanza, only. How prescient W. B. Yeats was!) Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things...
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...
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...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Ginzburg, sempre Ginzburg (What I'm reading)

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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 ...
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. ...