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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