MY GENERATION My generation sat on the brim of the ocean, waiting for the tide to bring something in. My generation was populated with boozehounds and pillheads, crude clowns and bedspreads stained with the neon dreams of cocaine fiends, I mean the diamond flooded...
Civitella Ranieri was a parenthesis in my daily life that will unlikely be repeated, and one that was entirely positive, both personally and professionally. I worked, I made friends, and I felt immersed in an environment of generosity and of intelligent comprehension...
The Civitella Ranieri Fellowship reconnected me with my art. The quiet, the ambiance of peace, the evening conversations with other Fellows, a mix of genres. I came at the start of the autumn and found the slow change in temperature revivifying. I started a new novel...
