Writer's Blog
Glamour 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
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
Writer's BlogBeneath Snowy Foothills
BENEATH SNOWY FOOTHILLS This essay began as a poem that I wrote while flying home from Santa Fe. I…
February 2, 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
Writer's BlogMy Connections to Andy Warhol
You can read my personal essay ~ “WANTING WARHOL: My Connections to Andy Warhol” HERE: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/all-nonfiction As Kathy…
June 18, 2020
Highlights, Writer's BlogNaples’ famous Spaccanapoli
Naples’ old town is cut in two by the famous Naples’ Spaccanapoli, or Splitter — SEE Elena Ferrante’s…
April 7, 2020