The care I felt at Civitella Ranieri stunned me. I felt nurtured both by the staff and Fellow artists, and this allowed my feeling and thinking and writing to unfold in ways I couldn’t have anticipated. Perhaps the luckiest thing about Civitella was the time if...
I came to Civitella at exactly the right time: I had recently published a book and was eager to develop my thinking about a new project. How lucky I was to find myself in a new (beautiful) place, with new (brilliant) people to talk to. I divided my workdays between...
At Civitella, the spirit of the place takes over and serendipity prevails. Mark Strand’s gift of books to the castle’s library was another garden that nurtured the seeds of my next project. I am grateful for the deep encounters with the people I met at Civitella, for...
At Civitella, I had the time and space to write with no goal in mind and no end in sight. I was pushed by the conversations I had with new friends and the books I picked up in the library. I came with an idea of what I would work on, but when I arrived I realized that...
It took me several days to adapt myself to this new stage of doing nothing but possible creating, but then I began to write what I intended to write: a novel. I did write, partly edited old materials that I brought. Also, as intermission and as mainly I consider...
