Writer's Blog
A Lasting Gift: Remembering My Friend Kim Chernin
https://lithub.com/a-lasting-gift-remembering-my-friend-kim-chernin/ A Lasting Gift: Remembering My Friend Kim Chernin
May 7, 2021
Writer's BlogGlamour in the Pines
The old Slape mansion (in need of a refurb) on the lake in my New Jersey hometown, was the…
March 18, 2021
Writer's BlogGlamour in the Pines
Heading to a wedding. From left: my grandmother, Anna Renzi, Aunt Helen, and Mom, all in white. Who said…
February 25, 2021
HighlightsADVANCE PRAISE for ~ Italian Love Cake, a novel
PUBLICATION DATE: May 11, 2021 (available for pre-order in February) Bordighera Press I T A L I A N …
February 20, 2021
Writer's BlogIn the Shadow of Vesuvius
As the story goes, my Neapolitan great grandfather, Carmine Rodio, was bullied mercilessly at school, and soon became a…
February 16, 2021
Writer's BlogNovel Inspiration
Writing ITALIAN LOVE CAKE, I felt compelled to recreate the life of an Italian-American woman in the 1930s. Often…
February 15, 2021
Beautiful Italians, Writer's BlogAll Things ITALIAN, plus Clothes
Why I love clothes… Clothes “emote” and boy, so do Italians. Gaga’s National Anthem was a departure at the…
January 21, 2021
Writer's BlogRIP Kim Chernin, novelist, memoirist, poet
For lovers of memoir, there is no better than In My Mother’s House (1983), by the glorious Kim Chernin, who…
January 3, 2021
Writer's BlogGigging Frogs
It was a warm night with fire flies lighting like stars, and they swirled around me, waist high, as…
June 25, 2020