Monday, December 30, 2024

All I Want for Christmas is Guglielmo Coffee

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Even at my advanced age, I find a lot of gifts under the tree. But the one I want most is a mega shipment of Guglielmo coffee! The American...
Monday, December 16, 2024

The Year in Translating Women (one specific woman) -- 2024

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Every year, I tally up what I've accomplished professionally -- mainly my year in writing , but also translation. Basically, what I'...
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“Come ti senti quando parli in italiano?”

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How do I feel when I speak Italian, you ask? Te lo dico! ... And thanks to Pensierini magazine for publishing my short piece on their websit...
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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Daddy's garden

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  Overgrown now, yes, but he built a world. A world in flowers.
Monday, October 28, 2024

Everything you want to know about Italian lit

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I took part in a blog project called Italian Lit Month that's coincided with the big, annual book fair in Frankfurt, where Italy is the...
Sunday, October 06, 2024

We buried my mother a year ago today

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How do you sum up a life? Normally with my mother, I think of a funny story. And maybe that’s not fair, though she was a character, wasn’t ...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

The power of the Olympics (in my own backyard)

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  Long jump! -30-
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Il paese dei miei antenati

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Vado pazza per le parole, sia in inglese che in italiano. E una volta un mio amico fiorentino mi mandò una cartolina dall'Irlanda, e ci ...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Literature I've Loved (after the NYT list)

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I began compiling this list because whenever I teach, I'm always scouting out works I can include on the syllabus and I'm slated to ...
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Saturday, July 06, 2024

Gente di Dublino (What I read before leaving for Ireland)

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Italian literature is never far from my mind, even the last few months when I immersed myself in Irish literature as I prepared for my first...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Jeanne reads poems by Edith Bruck in translation

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These are poems from  Versi Vissuti , which combines three of Edith's poetry collections. I  read them  for the translation reading s...
Thursday, March 07, 2024

An Oscar-winning film, seen on a whim, changed my life

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I don’t pay much attention to the Oscars ceremony, which will air on Sunday. Most years, I don’t see a single movie that’s been nominated....
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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Women Holocaust survivors: A Reading List

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To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27), below you'll find all the books I have read or want to read by or about wome...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

My Tiny Love Story in The New York Times

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I've written a tiny love story for The New York Times and I think I'd like to compose one for everyone I've ever loved! But I s...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Ryan Holiday: These 38 Reading Rules Changed My Life

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I don't agree with all of them, but I do find this list (link below) of 'reading rules' intriguing, and I agree with the author ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

First line of "The Great Gatsby" -- in Italian

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One day, for no particular reason, I decided I absolutely had to know the opening lines of the Italian version of my favorite novel – and I ...
Wednesday, January 03, 2024

Happy heavenly birthday, Mariateresa Di Lascia!

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Today is the birthday of Italian author and parliamentarian Mariateresa Di Lascia -- she would have been 69. She died in 1994 after writing...
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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I had a special mission this year to immerse myself in Holocaust narrative so I could find a publisher for the short stories I am translati...
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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...