Highlights, Writer's Blog
Naples’ famous Spaccanapoli
Naples’ old town is cut in two by the famous Naples’ Spaccanapoli, or Splitter — SEE Elena Ferrante’s…
April 7, 2020
Writer's BlogYou’re not going to the movies??!!
You’re not going to the movies??!! Remember when movie reviewers used to go on about the experience of being…
August 12, 2019
Writer's BlogWriters Have the Best Shoes …
Writers Have the Best Shoes … I once went to hear Mary Karr interviewed by Calvin Trillin at the…
December 9, 2018
Writer's BlogWhat Maxine Hong Kingston Calls a “longbook.”
What Maxine Hong Kingston Calls a “longbook.” Having just finished my novel, The Taste of Anise, which took me…
November 28, 2018
Writer's BlogA Toothbrush, a Typewriter and a Revolver
RIP Claire Hollingworth, who died yesterday at 105. Am I searching for empowerment/strong women/examples of heroism/of female guts and power…
January 11, 2017
Writer's BlogArtists Teach Us How to Live and Die
Artists are good at showing us how to think about death and dying. They extend their hands, stretching them far out into the unknown that awaits. We arrived at a…
January 14, 2016
Highlights, Writer's BlogWalt Whitman
I’M THINKING ABOUT WALT WHITMAN! His drama. His emotion. His love of nature, of men and women, and honesty…boy…
December 9, 2015
Highlights, Writer's BlogAmerican Voices
A collection of my memoir vignettes, Growing Up Italian in the New Jersey Pine Barrens ~ now available in paper…
October 9, 2015
Writer's Blog(Sometimes) it’s a good thing when history repeats Itself ~ ~
The Pinelands Jetport: A crazy plan in the 1960’s narrowly averted by citizen action ~ “Bridges to nowhere” crop up again and again…
September 21, 2015