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I am currently in the process of writing a book to be published next year under the provisional title, Dos ejemplos de animismo [Two Examples of Animism]. It consists of two novellas and will be published, if nothing prevents it, by the Spanish publishing subsidiary...
As I live in Italy I cannot say I was completely taken by surprise to find such beauty surrounding Civitella. But I was not expecting such a warm atmosphere. I had planned spending my five weeks’ stay writing a screenplay, a first-time adaptation of a novel...
Among its many gifts to me, Civitella gave me the subject of my next novel. I arrived wrapped in the blank, despairing doubt that occurs between books, with no idea what I wanted to write next. No certainty that there would even be a next. For a week this place and...
When I came to stay at the Civitella Ranieri, I had a new book of poetry — my twenty-first — half done. I was hoping to finish it during my stay, and I did, writing fifty-six “versions” of poems from Charles Baudelaire’s 1861 collection...
