I call recall that afternoon I received the message that I had been nominated for this wonderful opportunity – to live and make art in a castle! – and still today, some six weeks into my residency, the news is just as incredible. I spent my first few days here...
To rise out of the mist each morninginto a version of The Peacable Kingdom feeling as dumbly content as Mr. Hicks’s lionsfor the first hour or two, and then to confront the beauty of Umbriaand person — correction: persons — allconcerned with (one way or...
My time at Civitella Ranieri was absolute heaven. During my six weeks, I wrote an essay, did final revisions on a short story, and made real headway on my novel. To be surrounded by such beauty and art and history and kindness was extraordinary. This place and the...
