Monday, March 30, 2026

'This Darkness Will Never End' is 'powerful,' @Assoc. of Jewish Libraries

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A reviewer writing in the newsletter of the Association of Jewish Libraries highly recommends my translation, This Darkness Will Never End ...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Nieman: Most Americans don’t pay for news & don’t think they need to

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This isn't a blog about the profession that's helped me pay the bills. It's quite the opposite -- a blog to my passions, the on...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Jeanne journals

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I don't like it when the word 'journal' is used as a verb.  Let's journal about this. OR: She spent the afternoon journalin...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

What I'm Reading: Nobody's Girl

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Reviewing books is one of many tasks I've taken on since dedicating myself to writing more than a decade ago.  But I typically review I...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

My lecture on Edith Bruck & 'This Darkness Will Never End'

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Some of my readings have been sparsely attended (ahem!) but each one has brought me great joy because I have had the chance to meet face-to...
Friday, February 06, 2026

The best magazine you've never read (unless you're 12)

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When “The Week Junior”  arrives in the mail, my 12-year-old son sits down immediately to read it cover to cover. One quick look at its smart...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Edith Bruck & International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27)

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Unfortunately, I won’t make it to NYC today where outside of the Italian Consulate the names of all of the Italian victims of the Nazis will...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

What I read in 2025

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Not a great year in reading for me and I am all to blame, a self-inflicted wound owing to distraction and commitments related to the transla...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

What I'm Reading: The Art of X-Ray Reading

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Writers are readers, right? They have to be, and the author of the book, The Art of X-Ray Reading : How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Lit...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

To the ends of the word...: The Bishop's Bedroom by Piero Chiara

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I am not the only one who enjoyed The Bishop's Bedroom ! Happy to share this link to a review of the work by Piero Chiara, which was tr...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

A poem for today? The Second Coming by Yeats

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(First stanza, only. How prescient W. B. Yeats was!) Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things...
Sunday, January 04, 2026

Please review 'This Darkness Will Never End' on Amazon

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I've been talking up my translation every way I can -- blogposts , public readings, bookfairs, Facebook messages, a trip to Ohio, mentio...
Friday, January 02, 2026

At a little library near you: 'This Darkness Will Never End'

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UPDATED I've been dropping off copies of the translation at little libraries, including the one in Washington Market Park in Manhattan...
Monday, December 29, 2025

I eloped "with" Italy 30 years ago

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How odd to conclude that among the loves of your life is an entire country, in addition to the real loved ones, like Leo. I am, of course, t...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

For CNN Travel: why can't America have more piazzas?

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Piazza Navona. Piazza Santo Spirito. Campo dei Fiori. Piazza Duomo (Milan). Just some of the piazzas I love.  And since I now work as a con...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Meeting Donatella Di Pietrantonio at Rizzoli this year

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At an event at Rizzoli in Manhattan earlier this year, I asked Donatella Di Pietrantonio to autograph one of her books that I love --  L...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Edith Bruck & My Year in Translation (2025)

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It was the year of the milestone for me -- I published my first book-length translation, This Darkness Will Never End . I both love and hate...

What I'm reading: Ginzburg, sempre Ginzburg

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I keep a book log of what I read, and it's now evolved into more of a book journal because I love noting passages that intrigue me. And ...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

Come to a reading in Northampton on Dec. 8

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Event alert! I'll be reading from my translation, This Darkness Will Never End , on Monday at the Forbes Library in Northampton, Massach...