I came to Civitella trying to finish a collection of essays (tentatively titled The Magic Kingdom of the Feral Victorians) that I’ve been working on for about a year and a half, and feeling as if I’d really lost clarity about how (and if) the project was...
The care I felt at Civitella Ranieri stunned me. I felt nurtured both by the staff and Fellow artists, and this allowed my feeling and thinking and writing to unfold in ways I couldn’t have anticipated. Perhaps the luckiest thing about Civitella was the time if...
I came to Civitella at exactly the right time: I had recently published a book and was eager to develop my thinking about a new project. How lucky I was to find myself in a new (beautiful) place, with new (brilliant) people to talk to. I divided my workdays between...
