Thursday, November 21, 2019

Dear Marie Kondo -- from the archives!

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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...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

After the translation conference

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I study the program, zeroing in on the participants' bios. The section where the gold is hidden. That's what I do after the conf...
Monday, November 04, 2019

A map of my places

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May 2019 I was out for a walk the other day before an early editing shift and I strolled over to the old cemetery -- the small one, the on...
Friday, October 25, 2019

On leaving Atlanta

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Aug. 8, 2017 I write on a kitchen counter cluttered with all the items that were removed from side tables that have also since been remove...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Here's what I read (2019)

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I've set myself a goal of reading 50 books this year. Not sure I will make it! (I note, sadly). I started off with a set of particula...
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...