Civitella is a dream, and as such, my time there flowed and bent in magical ways. Each day at my desk or in the garden stretched out languidly before me, while somehow the weeks passed in a wondrous blur– looking back on it now feels almost like an entire life...
By the time the stars aligned for me to come to Civitella (two years after being invited), the narrative nonfiction project I’d planned to work on had gone kaput. What, then, to do with these six unfettered weeks? Take a leap, I decided: experiment with fiction after...
Excerpt from " All the Good Things Around Us" https://civitella.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Excerpt_from_All-the-Good-Things-Around-Us.mp3 NEWS 04/29/2022: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Virtual Lecture 10/14/2021: 103 African Writers Respond to Abdulrazak...
A lace maker, I have noticed her while she was working on the doorstep of a certain house in Gubbio, the other in the holy city of Assisi, still another on that mountainous spot called Montone. Each one of them embroidered their lace, raising it every so often towards...
