Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing. 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...
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 ...
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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Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Nieman: Most Americans don’t pay for news & don’t think they need to

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This isn't a blog about the profession that's helped me pay the bills. It's quite the opposite -- a blog to my passions, the on...
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, 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...
Monday, December 29, 2025

I eloped "with" Italy 30 years ago

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How odd to conclude that among the loves of your life is an entire country, in addition to the real loved ones, like Leo. I am, of course, t...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

For CNN Travel: why can't America have more piazzas?

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Piazza Navona. Piazza Santo Spirito. Campo dei Fiori. Piazza Duomo (Milan). Just some of the piazzas I love.  And since I now work as a con...
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...
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...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

The coolest thing: praise for my essay “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...
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...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Taking the pulse of Firenze -- and my own

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Dante considered Florence a den of snakes, and I can see why, but he also lamented his exile from this bejeweled city and I can absolutely ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

What women survivors can still teach us about the Holocaust

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Edith Bruck says living with the memory of the Holocaust is akin to being eternally pregnant with a “demon-child conceived in Auschwitz.” A...