Wednesday, September 18, 2019

My Montreal memento shrine

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I create memento shrines when I return from Italy (or when Mike does) -- carefully-arranged piles of all the precious Italian goods I'...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Libri & livres (or What I bought in Montreal)

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I've fallen in love with Montreal of late for many reasons, and certainly chief among them is the possibility of buying actual Italia...
Friday, July 26, 2019

On Keeping a Notebook

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The fine editors at Longreads let me write about one of my true passions -- keeping a notebook. Or lots of notebooks. T he one in my car,...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Last year at this time ... (Rome!)

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We were here! With this charming boy.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Writing about my translation for Ploughshares magazine

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x I have written an essay about the book I am translating, focusing on the hidden indignities of the female characters' lives and ho...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

My Year in Writing*

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I won't lie. It might be better to re-christen this rubric -- at least for this year -- the Year in Translating. That's because,...
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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Short story translation -- in the Kenyon Review!

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I'm thrilled to say a short story I've translated has been published in the Kenyon Review ! It's called "Casta Diva,...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Italian journal 2018 -- final installment

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Here's the final slice of the diary I kept during our first trip to Italy with Leo. Re-reading my notes, I see my journal was more of ...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

New lit by Italian women writers in translation (by me!)

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I've had another translation published -- and another Italian woman author can now begin building a following in America. It's a...
Monday, October 01, 2018

Italian journal 2018 -- part II

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July 28, 2018 We're experiencing un caldo tremendo  which I’m exacerbating by drinking too much wine and eating too much everyth...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Italian journal, 2018 (part one)

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July 21, 2018: On board the plane to Rome,  Leo says, “This is life in the air.” July 22, 2018: We arrived in Rome today and we’v...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

My souvenir shrine, or what I bought in Italy

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My favorite post-Italian trip ritual (outside of crying and lamenting my exile) is to lay out my souvenir haul on a table and arrange the ...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

I'm headed again to Italy. Here's how I prepare

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I'm not thinking about monuments -- except the Pantheon, my favorite building in Italy -- nor am I likely to visit many museums. I am ...
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...