I came to Civitella Ranieri with the firm plan to complete a last section of a novel long underway. I imagined a quiet but palatial room with only the call to the famous dinners to mark the time. Soon the work of my Fellows – their presentations, conversations, studio...
Ann Kjellberg (DG 2016), part of the CRF Advisory Council and a longtime former contributing editor at The New York Review of Books, is founder and editor of Little Star and Book Post, a subscription-based book review delivery...
Civitella is such a wonderful place at the beginning I felt a bit intimidated. The first two days I was taken by wonder and I wrote very little, spending most of the time checking the robins’ flight from my window in the castle. I never had in my all life such great...
