Archives
September 2015
Pause 2 September 2015
June 2015
Henry Miller's House 18 June 2015
May 2015
Rhubarb Crisp 29 May 2015
December 2014
Change Coming 24 December 2014
November 2014
Here Is New York E.B. White 19 November 2014
Stuff, Part I 11 November 2014
Goodbye to All That Joan Didion 5 November 2014
October 2014
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 30 October 2014
Going, Going 22 October 2014
September 2014
Darkness and Light in DH Lawrence 29 September 2014
Waiting and D.H. Lawrence's Sentences 23 September 2014
Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi 2 September 2014
August 2014
The Spinster of Atrani on Front Porch Journal 26 August 2014
Cats at Sleep 21 August 2014
July 2014
Rome, Shame on You! 28 July 2014
Bountiful Friday 24 July 2014
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami 1 July 2014
June 2014
Doris Lessing on Writing 23 June 2014
Begin/End 11 June 2014
Dostoevsky's Madnesses 4 June 2014
May 2014
The Other Language Francesca Marciano 24 May 2014
The Doldrums 21 May 2014
On Sadism and the US Government 2 May 2014
April 2014
Vronsky's Toothache 25 April 2014
I Believe in Language 23 April 2014
Signs of Spring 12 April 2014
Spring, Rejection and Levin 6 April 2014
March 2014
The San Calisto, Rome 27 March 2014
Henry Miller's 11 Commandments of Writing 21 March 2014
The Evolution from Genes to Brain to Books 10 March 2014
February 2014
The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner 27 February 2014
Tips for Writing Personal Essays 18 February 2014
(Word) Photos from Fez, Morocco 10 February 2014
January 2014
The Pleasure of Reading Old Books 30 January 2014
Paesaggio Interiore 17 January 2014
December 2013
Year in Books, 2013 26 December 2013
Why Write? by George Orwell 9 December 2013
People Who Read Are Not Too Lazy 5 December 2013
November 2013
Cosmos and Decisions 22 November 2013
Why Write? by Mavis Gallant 6 November 2013
October 2013
The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri 31 October 2013
A Book on Style: Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau 25 October 2013
Reading Out of Genre 18 October 2013
Sometimes I Cook 11 October 2013
Thoughts on the Women's Fiction Festival and Matera 1 October 2013
September 2013
Two M.G.s: Martha Gellhorn & Mavis Gallant 17 September 2013
Risk It 10 September 2013
August 2013
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson 7 August 2013
July 2013
More from In Praise of Reading and Fiction 31 July 2013
Slowing Down 29 July 2013
Summer Book Lists 19 July 2013
My Best in Florence 9 July 2013
Oblate Library, Florence 4 July 2013
June 2013
Jhumpa Lahiri: Conversations (& Reading) in Rome 21 June 2013
Conversations in Amsterdam 17 June 2013
Max Perkins A. Scott Berg 6 June 2013
May 2013
Me and Anaïs Nin in Louveciennes 28 May 2013
Henry Miller in Paris 15 May 2013
Paris Literary Checklist 6 May 2013
April 2013
Arcadia Lauren Groff 25 April 2013
The Macro-Edit 19 April 2013
Six Questions to Ask Your Sentences by George Orwell 16 April 2013
Cultivate Friendships 12 April 2013
Editing and Writing 2 April 2013
March 2013
Good and Bad in The Marble Faun 22 March 2013
Creative Writing 15 March 2013
Why Vonnegut Used a Typewriter 6 March 2013
February 2013
Perugia, One Night 27 February 2013
Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon 22 February 2013
In Praise of Reading and Fiction 18 February 2013
January 2013
Zzzzzz..... 22 January 2013
Christmas and Kundera in Prague 11 January 2013
December 2012
Top Five Reads of 2012 27 December 2012
My Big Thing 19 December 2012
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 17 December 2012
Eataly in Rome on a Sunday 3 December 2012
November 2012
Stoner John Williams 28 November 2012
Novelling 22 November 2012
Hygiene and the Assassin Amélie Nothomb 2 November 2012
October 2012
Writers, Too, Must Eat 26 October 2012
Best in Rome: Li Rioni 5 October 2012
September 2012
Best in Rome: Grapes 26 September 2012
The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman 22 September 2012
Mountain Watching 17 September 2012
August 2012
E. B. White on Style 29 August 2012
Usage Note: Flammable 24 August 2012
Tribal Violence 23 August 2012
Jane Eyre Charolotte Brontë 20 August 2012
I Don't Know Anything 12 August 2012
The Marquise of O– Heinrich von Kleist 7 August 2012
Best in Rome: Plums 1 August 2012
July 2012
When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale 24 July 2012
More Sentences 19 July 2012
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz 12 July 2012
Some Thoughts on Sentences 6 July 2012
June 2012
Orlando Virginia Woolf 27 June 2012
Reading Like a Writer Francine Prose 14 June 2012
Poetry Conversation: Billy Collins 6 June 2012
May 2012
On Composition 29 May 2012
Poetry Reading: Robert Hass 24 May 2012
A Room with a View E.M. Forster 18 May 2012
Slow Reading 15 May 2012
Favorite Park in Rome: Villa Celimontana 7 May 2012
Weekend in Naples 2 May 2012
April 2012
Next Best English Bookshop in Rome: Anglo American Book 27 April 2012
Rome's Best English Bookshop: Open Door Bookshop 20 April 2012
Couples John Updike 16 April 2012
Two Sides to a Story 10 April 2012
March 2012
Daisy Miller Henry James 27 March 2012
Stay Home! 23 March 2012
The Awakening Kate Chopin 20 March 2012
Eating Italy Food Tour in Rome 16 March 2012
Henry Miller, Madame Bovary and Women 13 March 2012
Madame Bovary x 2 Gustave Flaubert 9 March 2012
Ma Dai! 6 March 2012
Bed + Christ 2 March 2012
February 2012
The Nun Simonetta Agnello Hornby 21 February 2012
Happy Friday 17 February 2012
Note #1: The Art of Fiction John Gardner 14 February 2012
The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 11 February 2012
Some Things Don't Change 8 February 2012
Rome + Snow 5 February 2012
Stories From the City of God Pier Paolo Pasolini 3 February 2012
The Real Rome 2 February 2012
January 2012
Steve McCurry in Rome 31 January 2012
The Wapshot Chronicle John Cheever 26 January 2012
On Greed and the Vatican Museum 24 January 2012
Book List: Books Set in Rome 19 January 2012
Cruise Ship Down, Giglio 16 January 2012
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 13 January 2012
Library Book 10 January 2012
Cheever Blake Bailey 6 January 2012
6 Days in Belgium 4 January 2012
December 2011
My Year in Reading, 2011 23 December 2011
Still Reading John Cheever 19 December 2011
Aspetti! 14 December 2011
Reading John Cheever 9 December 2011
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Tennessee Williams 5 December 2011
Cow Town Cafe, Howard City, MI 2 December 2011
November 2011
On Beauty Zadie Smith 29 November 2011
A Melancholic Quote 24 November 2011
Piet Mondrian in Rome 21 November 2011
Those Without Shadows Françoise Sagan 17 November 2011
Suite Française Irène Némirovsky 14 November 2011
Temptation + Weight 8 November 2011
Literary Fireworks 6 November 2011
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Simone de Beauvoir 1 November 2011
October 2011
Fumbling 28 October 2011
Simone's Seriousness 26 October 2011
Nubifragio 21 October 2011
Rome's Riots 17 October 2011
The Beggar Maid Alice Munro 14 October 2011
The Weather 12 October 2011
Books I'm Reading 5 October 2011
Embassytown China Miéville 3 October 2011
September 2011
Experiment + Lamb 30 September 2011
The Italian Stomach 27 September 2011
The Story of Art E.H. Gombrich 23 September 2011
Lately 21 September 2011
Something Ingrown 19 September 2011
10 Things I Learned about Writing from the Culture Show's New Novelists Episode 15 September 2011
A Kind of Intimacy Jenn Ashworth 13 September 2011
A Thought with Photos 9 September 2011
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter 7 September 2011
Limiting 5 September 2011
Polishing 2 September 2011
August 2011
The Heat Wave is Over 29 August 2011
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami 25 August 2011
The Progress of Love Alice Munro 22 August 2011
Star Maker Olaf Stapledon 19 August 2011
Isola del Giglio 16 August 2011
Woman on the Edge of Time Marge Piercy 10 August 2011
Michigan Album 8 August 2011
July 2011
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare Henry Miller 5 July 2011
June 2011
U.S. as Re-Fuel 29 June 2011
In a Strange Room Damon Galgut 27 June 2011
Wake Up 23 June 2011
All the Living C. E. Morgan 21 June 2011
Sleeping with Cats Marge Piercy 18 June 2011
A Conversation with Dorothy Allison 16 June 2011
Fiction Reading: Dorothy Allison 14 June 2011
Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison 10 June 2011
Around My Desk 8 June 2011
Monday to Friday 3 June 2011
May 2011
In the Mountains 31 May 2011
Augustus John Williams 27 May 2011
Poetry Reading: Joseph Harrison 25 May 2011
Rome Writing Group 23 May 2011
Art/Selling Out 20 May 2011
A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 17 May 2011
From Suetonius to Egan 13 May 2011
The Twelve Caesars Suetonius 9 May 2011
Some Talented Women 4 May 2011
April 2011
The Opposite Direction 29 April 2011
I, Claudius Robert Graves 26 April 2011
Semana Santa 19 April 2011
Sfumato 15 April 2011
Rama App Tours of Rome 12 April 2011
Colosseum as Traffic Circle 8 April 2011
Four Short Novels DH Lawrence 5 April 2011
March 2011
Ad Bestias 31 March 2011
Shrimp for Lunch 25 March 2011
Weekend in Florence 22 March 2011
Memoirs of Hadrian x 2 Marguerite Yourcenar 14 March 2011
Two Exhibitions 11 March 2011
Monstrous 8 March 2011
A Chain Linked 7 March 2011
The Beginning, A Story 2 March 2011
February 2011
Thailand, Last Year 26 February 2011
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome Alberto Angela 22 February 2011
The Vittoriano 18 February 2011
Glimmer Train #77 16 February 2011
Seeing Rome 11 February 2011
Italian Journey Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 7 February 2011
Fascist Rome 2 February 2011
January 2011
Copyright and the Public Domain 28 January 2011
Exciting 24 January 2011
The Cosmic Connection Carl Sagan 19 January 2011
Roman Literati 12 January 2011
The Canal Lee Rourke 10 January 2011
The Birds Tarjei Vesaas 6 January 2011
A Short Trip 3 January 2011
December 2010
Open 19 December 2010
Gogol Vladimir Nabokov 14 December 2010
Wolf Solent x 2 John Cowper Powys 10 December 2010
Sunday Church 5 December 2010
November 2010
An Opera 30 November 2010
Van Gogh in Rome 25 November 2010
In Rome, In November 22 November 2010
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 17 November 2010
On Influence and Imitation 14 November 2010
John Thomas and Lady Jane DH Lawrence 8 November 2010
Development of a Sentence 1 November 2010
October 2010
An Ending? 28 October 2010
A Preparation for Death Greg Baxter 25 October 2010
A Trip to Malta 19 October 2010
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 11 October 2010
The First Lady Chatterley DH Lawrence 7 October 2010
Not Cold 4 October 2010
September 2010
Oliver Mellors and Isolation 27 September 2010
A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' DH Lawrence 22 September 2010
Lady Chatterley's Lover DH Lawrence 18 September 2010
Serious 15 September 2010
Our Cosmic Habitat Martin Rees 13 September 2010
Roadside Picnic Arkady & Boris Strugatsky 6 September 2010
At San Giovanni 3 September 2010
Blustery 1 September 2010
August 2010
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana Carlo Emilio Gadda 26 August 2010
Crest of a Wave 23 August 2010
Stardust 17 August 2010
Ferie a Roma 11 August 2010
War and Peace, The End Leo Tolstoy 8 August 2010
Moving Along 2 August 2010
July 2010
To Lago Albano 27 July 2010
War and Peace, Volume 3 Leo Tolstoy 23 July 2010
The Maytrees x 2 Annie Dillard 20 July 2010
San Clemente 18 July 2010
Sky and Sea 12 July 2010
Gone Swimming 7 July 2010
I Am Henry Miller and Annie Dillard's Love Child 3 July 2010
June 2010
Conversations with Henry Miller 27 June 2010
War and Peace, Volume Two Leo Tolstoy 22 June 2010
The Portrait Nikolai Gogol 18 June 2010
Sun is Star 13 June 2010
On Turning 30 7 June 2010
The Ice Palace Tarjei Vesaas 6 June 2010
May 2010
City/Country 27 May 2010
War and Peace, Volume One Leo Tolstoy 23 May 2010
Doubt 17 May 2010
Rome 13 May 2010
A Rocking Boat 8 May 2010
Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio Amara Lakhous 5 May 2010
April 2010
Weymouth Sands John Cowper Powys 30 April 2010
Returning 25 April 2010
Back to Formello 22 April 2010
Back to Bangkok 19 April 2010
Vietnam, South to North 11 April 2010
March 2010
Camping Trip 29 March 2010
Island Hopping 23 March 2010
John Cowper Powys in Ko Phayam 16 March 2010
From a Hammock 11 March 2010
Under Chiang Mai's Skin 4 March 2010
February 2010
On Being a Tourist in Bangkok 25 February 2010
Departure Imminent 19 February 2010
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 16 February 2010
Preparations 12 February 2010
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 9 February 2010
In Michigan 3 February 2010
January 2010
The Fifth Child Doris Lessing 18 January 2010
Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 13 January 2010
Superstition 11 January 2010
Because I Was Flesh Edward Dahlberg 6 January 2010
So We Go 4 January 2010
December 2009
Cooking 21 December 2009
Morwyn John Cowper Powys 18 December 2009
Formello 14 December 2009
Two Trips 8 December 2009
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 3 December 2009
November 2009
The Insurgent Noah Cicero 26 November 2009
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy 17 November 2009
Ciao Bracciano, Ciao! 12 November 2009
On Inhumanity 6 November 2009
October 2009
Reading Russian in English 29 October 2009
The Maytrees Annie Dillard 24 October 2009
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 13 October 2009
A Book to Change Me 7 October 2009
September 2009
Funny Story 27 September 2009
New Neighbors 14 September 2009
The Proof of the Honey Salwa al Neimi 9 September 2009
Summer/Fall 4 September 2009
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1 September 2009
August 2009
Tori Amos: Disintegration 25 August 2009
Anna Karenina, so far Leo Tolstoy 13 August 2009
Relevant 5 August 2009
July 2009
The Pure and the Impure Colette 30 July 2009
Ballast Overboard 23 July 2009
The Summer Before the Dark Doris Lessing 19 July 2009
Appetites Caroline Knapp 13 July 2009
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 5 July 2009
June 2009
Down to the Lake 30 June 2009
The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector 25 June 2009
Briefing for a Descent into Hell Doris Lessing 16 June 2009
Sex in Italy 10 June 2009
Force of Circumstance Simone de Beauvoir 3 June 2009
May 2009
The Process 19 May 2009
A Mano 10 May 2009
April 2009
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 23 April 2009
Chinese Lanterns 16 April 2009
Letter from Another Lettera 14 April 2009
The Books in My Life Henry Miller 1 April 2009
March 2009
A Fig Tree 24 March 2009
The Sirian Experiments Doris Lessing 18 March 2009
Black Curse 16 March 2009
A Kind of List 5 March 2009
February 2009
Flying 23 February 2009
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 17 February 2009
Stand Behind the Line 13 February 2009
A Glastonbury Romance John Cowper Powys 11 February 2009
A Glastonbury Romance, an introduction John Cowper Powys 3 February 2009
January 2009
Fluidity 28 January 2009
Review on Demand 19 January 2009
Speechless 6 January 2009
Descents of Memory Morine Krissdóttir 2 January 2009
December 2008
Missing Home 26 December 2008
This is Not a Book! 11 December 2008
The Overcoat Nikolai Gogol 8 December 2008
November 2008
Krishnamurti Mary Lutyens 30 November 2008
To Venus 27 November 2008
Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin 18 November 2008
Autobiography John Cowper Powys 11 November 2008
The 1st of November 1 November 2008
October 2008
Cruelty 30 October 2008
In Times of Shortage 27 October 2008
No Mere Idea 23 October 2008
Miscellanea 20 October 2008
The Part of the Magician 15 October 2008
Travels with Charley John Steinbeck 9 October 2008
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 3 October 2008
September 2008
How Sonia Slept 30 September 2008
On Thought 25 September 2008
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five Doris Lessing 17 September 2008
Sketchy Surroundings 1 September 2008
August 2008
Shikasta Doris Lessing 29 August 2008
Free Shots 24 August 2008
Bread 18 August 2008
Good Waste, Bad Waste 14 August 2008
Valerie and Arianna Talk 11 August 2008
July 2008
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 23 July 2008
Una Forchetta 21 July 2008
Stuck in Time 16 July 2008
Porius John Cowper Powys 8 July 2008
The Desert Nomad 2 July 2008
June 2008
Eid-ul Adha 30 June 2008
Ode to Type-writer 23 June 2008
To Do the Hay 21 June 2008
Porius, again John Cowper Powys 18 June 2008
Tree with its Life in the Air 10 June 2008
Writer for Hire 6 June 2008
Brittany #1111 4 June 2008
May 2008
Happy Birthday! 30 May 2008
Brittany #1 27 May 2008
Porius, so far John Cowper Powys 22 May 2008
The Train 20 May 2008
Inside/Outside Cat 13 May 2008
Third or Fourth Day of Spring Henry Miller 5 May 2008
April 2008
The Firsts 28 April 2008
The Book 22 April 2008
fools! 16 April 2008
Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson 15 April 2008
Spring Cleaning 8 April 2008
March 2008
Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys 30 March 2008
Mediterranean Airs 21 March 2008
Autobiography Lawrence Ferlinghetti 17 March 2008
Blood and Guts 10 March 2008
Klaus 2 March 2008
February 2008
Arianna 25 February 2008
On Cats Doris Lessing 17 February 2008
Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 8 February 2008
Isaac 5 February 2008
January 2008
SEX 25 January 2008
Landlocked Doris Lessing 17 January 2008
Reflections 15 January 2008
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 6 January 2008
December 2007
Obsession and Awe 14 December 2007
On the Necessity of the Story 10 December 2007
November 2007
The Children (a fairy tale of sorts) 25 November 2007
On a Bench 13 November 2007
October 2007
Behold! A Pantheon! 25 October 2007
A Rant. 12 October 2007
Plexus Henry Miller 7 October 2007
September 2007
Cat Barn 14 September 2007
Internet no.2 2 September 2007
August 2007
Sexus Henry Miller 21 August 2007
The Meaning of Meaning 10 August 2007
July 2007
The Internet 21 July 2007
June 2007
Bracciano, a Portrait 26 June 2007
Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes 16 June 2007
May 2007
Mangi! 28 May 2007
Valerie Walks the Streets of Rome 9 May 2007
April 2007
Thoughts on Transitions 30 April 2007
The Life of a Pearl 13 April 2007
Life (a true story) 12 April 2007
How Do You Close a Book? 11 April 2007
Martha Quest Doris Lessing 6 April 2007
March 2007
An Invokation of Former Frustration 29 March 2007
Blue Boy Jean Giono 19 March 2007
Written from Rome 13 March 2007
The Colossus of Maroussi Henry Miller 7 March 2007
February 2007
Henry Miller and the Life Abundant 24 February 2007
The Unearthed and Revived 16 February 2007
Death on the Installment Plan Louis-Ferdinand Céline 9 February 2007
Fantastical Roald Dahl 5 February 2007
January 2007
Lost Knowledge 30 January 2007
East of Eden vs. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 15 January 2007
The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing 14 January 2007
November 2006
Of Death and the Garden 17 November 2006