At Civitella, the spirit of the place takes over and serendipity prevails. Mark Strand’s gift of books to the castle’s library was another garden that nurtured the seeds of my next project. I am grateful for the deep encounters with the people I met at Civitella, for...
At Civitella, I had the time and space to write with no goal in mind and no end in sight. I was pushed by the conversations I had with new friends and the books I picked up in the library. I came with an idea of what I would work on, but when I arrived I realized that...
It took me several days to adapt myself to this new stage of doing nothing but possible creating, but then I began to write what I intended to write: a novel. I did write, partly edited old materials that I brought. Also, as intermission and as mainly I consider...
