Monday, February 19, 2018

Ho vinto! Winning a PEN America translation grant

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I swear I rarely have the privilege of saying "I won" but I can truly say I have won a grant to continue work on a translation o...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Post-Italy trip journal ('bits' journals)

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It's been a long time since I've published part of my journal and an equally long time since I put out a call for the "bits...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Writing about Tabucchi's Viaggi ed altri viaggi

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"It’s a travel writer’s job to enchant us with tales of lands we’ve never seen—and which we may never see. But it seems like a parti...
Saturday, December 09, 2017

My Year in Writing (2017)

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I began writing an annual 'Year in Writing' roundup after I discovered a 2014  piece by the writer  Alexander Chee  where he cat...
Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Dear Marie Kondo

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Dear Marie Kondo, I know that your book has helped many people pare down, and since a relocation has consumed me for much of 2017 – m...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Read Delta Sky Mag (& fly Delta jets!)

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If you've flown Delta anytime this month, you might have read one of the stories I filed for Delta Sky Magazine about Atlanta! If n...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Writing about Italy for CNN Travel

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A trip to Italy for me? Swoon. A trip to Italy that leads to an essay in CNN Travel ? Days and weeks of swooning. Read it here ! Ther...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

Jacket made of wind

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A lost entry from the Leo diary: "I wish I had a jacket made of wind." Me, too, my imaginative friend, me, too.  -30-
Saturday, July 08, 2017

Dear Leo: Happy Birthday!

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Dear Leo, Five years ago, I looked like the person in the photo -- I was that person. Atlanta was gripped in a heat wave -- I lea...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Dove sono finite le scrittrici italiane?

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Colleghi italiani! Ho scritto un brano per un sito Web, Literary Hub, il quale parla di libri e il mondo delle lettere. Per precisare, int...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

What I bought in Italy -- Italian trip diary (2017)

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Summary for this post? How about: What you buy in Italy when you're an Italophile , traveling mainly for the nostalgia, with the sure kn...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #10 Parole italiane

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Best of Italy: parole italiane . Italian words. Any Italian words. All Italian words. In this case, it's a two-fer. A sign commemor...
Monday, June 05, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #9 Room with view

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My room with a view -- at a friend's house in Florence during my trip to Italy last month. (Was it really last month, already?) Th...
Saturday, June 03, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #8 ... Caffe + dog

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They love their cafes in Turin, they love their coffee and I guess they love their dogs. Snapped at Caffe Vittorio Veneto two weeks ago,...
Friday, June 02, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #7 Hiking Pistoia!

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I want to say the highlight of my trip to Italy last month was hiking with my friend, Giovanni! Talking about forest cleansing. How can...
Thursday, June 01, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #6 Crazy dry cleaner

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Lots of stops when I return to Italy, and most are of a very personal kind of tourism. Like checking to see if "the crazy dry cleaner...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #5 Torino courtyard

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Will someone tell me if I've failed so far to make the case that Torino is astonishingly beautiful? That hidden treasures await you?...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day -- #4 Fresh peas!

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Just follow them. Go where they go, do what they say, ask questions but don't obstruct. Those are my unspoken rules for being with I...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day -- #3 Fiori!

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Sure, we have flower boxes in our windows, too, in America but they never look like this! What exactly is the Signora feeding these flowe...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day -- #2 Breakfast

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Una ciambellina. Oo-nuh chah-m-bell-eena. The name of my favorite Italian pastry, hands down. The name of this blog, in fact! I did ...