Friday, December 29, 2023

Montreal Journal & the joys of travel in 2023

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I go to Montreal to speak Italian and shop at an Italian grocery store. And this year, I got to do both when I visited the Francophile Cana...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

What I read in 2023 & what I plan to read in 2024

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(UPDATED) I had a special mission this year to immerse myself in Holocaust narrative so I could find a publisher for the short stories I a...
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Thursday, December 07, 2023

The Year in Writing & Crying (2023)

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I considered 2022 a terrible year in writing for me so I suppose 2023 couldn't help but be better. As it turns out, 2023 was quite a yea...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

How Italy Ruined My Life (sort of -- for The Millions)

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The way Italian plunges me into an intoxication of sound and thought is something I've wanted to write about for a long time. The way t...
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Saturday, September 23, 2023

What women Holocaust survivors can teach us

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When I went to study at the New York Public Library in connection with a short fellowship I'd won, my intention was to study the author...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

First Boston Globe book review pubbed -- YES!

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Thrilled to land a book review in the Sunday Boston Globe ! I am a fan of the Globe's arts coverage and besides, it's not easy to fi...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Guide 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'd skimped on travel tips h...
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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I read a lot of books by  Patrick Modiano -- thank God he is so prolific! I'm sort of obsessed by him and his work . So I figured why n...
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 ...