
ADVANCE 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, 2021PUBLICATION DATE: May 11, 2021 (available for pre-order in February) Bordighera Press I T A L I A N …
February 20, 2021Naples’ old town is cut in two by the famous Naples’ Spaccanapoli, or Splitter — SEE Elena Ferrante’s…
April 7, 2020Writers Have the Best Shoes … I once went to hear Mary Karr interviewed by Calvin Trillin at the…
December 9, 2018I’M THINKING ABOUT WALT WHITMAN! His drama. His emotion. His love of nature, of men and women, and honesty…boy…
December 9, 2015A collection of my memoir vignettes, Growing Up Italian in the New Jersey Pine Barrens ~ now available in paper…
October 9, 2015That jolt of recognition! Whether through a nice sentence or a photograph, you are transported by a sudden, ineffable feeling that can…
March 23, 2015We were all girls in the packing house. Grandfather’s blueberry farm didn’t have a conveyor belt. Everything that…
October 7, 2014How could we have been embarrassed to call ourselves Italian? Could this be…
May 20, 2014Inspiration & Writing