NEWS 06/27/2022: “The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years” in the New York Times 02/02/2021: Chang-rae Lee Profile in The New York Times 01/26/2021: New Book by Chang-rae...
NEWS 04/18/2023: Civitellians at 2023 PEN World Voices Festival 01/21/2021: Masha Gessen Piece in The New Yorker 06/03/2020: Masha Gessen’s Surviving...
I came to Civitella trying to finish a collection of essays (tentatively titled The Magic Kingdom of the Feral Victorians) that I’ve been working on for about a year and a half, and feeling as if I’d really lost clarity about how (and if) the project was...
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...