Monday, July 10, 2023

For your trip to Florence -- buonviaggio!

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When my aunt and uncle embarked on a trip to Florence last year (after an absence of 40 years!), I realized I have slightly skimped on trave...
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

A day in the life of this American Man at age 10

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There is a seminal profile, well-known in literary journalism circles, about a 10-year-old boy and his world. Published in Esquire in 1992,...
Sunday, June 04, 2023

Stepping Stones Reveal a Path into Italy's Dark History -- for PBS site

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Writing stories culled from your travels is a dream assignment. I rarely get paid to do it! But in this case I did, and what's more, the...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Leo's Coronavirus Journal

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Well, it's not really his Coronavirus Journal -- it's an excerpt of my own journal that features pithy comments from Leo. May 12, 20...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

What I'm reading? Often Modiano

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Yep, I read a lot of Patrick Modiano -- thank God he is so prolific! So I figured why not review his latest work from Yale University Press...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Coronavirus Journal, three years later

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A publisher put out a call a while back for Coronavirus diary entries and I happily obliged since, of course, I'd been writing in my jo...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

When I like to write

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I like to write in the morning after a fractured night’s sleep has left me feeling so emotionally fragile it feels like a form of grief. I’m...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Running very little very often

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I have a photo of myself and my son that became instantly beloved to me the moment I saw it. He’s on his bike and I’m chasing after him, in ...
Monday, February 27, 2023

What if the Dodgers never left?

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I've been thinking all year about the uncle I never met. Which means I have also been thinking about the Dodgers. The Brooklyn Dodgers, ...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Hunger Mountain Translation Prize -- "Silvia" is now published!

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The first short story connected with my NEA grant , indeed the first short story I ever translated by Edith Bruck -- it's now published!...
Friday, February 03, 2023

What I read after my father died

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That was my original title for the essay -- what I read after my father died -- and still the one that best reflects what inspired this rem...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Edith Bruck on surviving Auschwitz

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This line alone says so much:  "Chi ha Auschwitz come coinquilino devastatore dentro di sé, scrivendone e parlandone non lo partorirà m...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Before and after Auschwitz (Liana Millu) Jan. 27, 2023

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In writing a summary of the research I did during a short-term fellowship at the New York Public Library this year, I had to leave out some...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

The Year in Writing and Failing (final edition)

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The year went so badly for writing that I pre-empted this now-annual post with a precocious version over the summer, declaring that " w...
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Thursday, December 15, 2022

What I read in 2022 & What I plan to read in 2023

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Reading is much more than a hobby for many of us, right? It's the equivalent of a runner's pre-marathon workouts. It's breathing...
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