Here’s the link to watch my RAI Letteratura interview with Federica Velona discussing the marvelous Lucia Berlin and La Donna Che Scriveva Racconti—the Italian translation of her story collection. (A Manual for Cleaning Women, edited by Stephen Emerson with an introduction by Lydia Davis. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2015.) .)
Many thanks to the folks at EDIZIONE SUR for featuring the Italian translation of my Paris Review piece on Lucia Berlin in their lit-blog “Sotto il Vulcano.” Thrilled to read my work in Italian, so a shout out to SUR editor Martina Testa and translator Giuliano Velli. Eccoloqua … in Italiano! Smoking with Lucia Non …
Read “Smoking with Lucia” – a remembrance of my friendship with the brilliant writer Lucia Berlin in the Paris Review Daily.
The Marco Chronicles: to Rome, without love is Shebooks’ top-selling memoir and a best-selling Kindle Single & Kindle Short Read for Essays, Humor, and The World Stage. Get ready to have all your illusions of the glamorous Italian expat life shattered in this hilarious, irreverent memoir of a young American woman’s romantic (or rather, unromantic) misadventures in …
What is it about the allure of the bad boy? In these two tales of obsessive love, Elizabeth Geoghegan, author of “The Marco Chronicles,” creates vivid portraits of strong women blinded by a weakness for a certain kind of guy—heartless, but impossible to resist. Whether her heroines are caught up in the chaos of Bangkok …
I’m honored to have my story “Dog Boy” included in the 1st edition of the Articulated Short Story Anthology, edited by Nora Boxer and Kelly Luce. Read what publisher Tayen Lane has to say about the ARTICULATED SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY FOR 2016: “The seventeen stories in this collection take will you from a grunge bar in …
Join me in beautiful Assisi for A Fork in the Road: Food & Travel Writing Workshop Summer 2016 Art Workshop International http://www.artworkshopintl.com
On the move? Now you can slip in your earbuds & take a trip through Rome, no matter where in the world you find yourself. Listen to an audio sample of THE MARCO CHRONICLES, TO ROME WITHOUT LOVE: the best-selling Kindle Single and award-winning travel memoir is now available on Audible.com IF ROME …
Congratulations to all the Solas Award winners selected by Travelers’ Tales. I’m delighted to have my writing appear alongside the work of so many talented writers. This year, “The Marco Chronicles” won the Gold prize in the category Travel Memoir: The best story that draws heavily on the writer’s past to make a point or reveal …
Transform an al fresco meal, a sublime swim, or even a disastrous drive into polished prose. This travel and food writing workshop will guide students in techniques for turning past, present and future expeditions – and the meals that populate them – into compelling creative nonfiction pieces or personal essays. Classes will focus on all …
Very pleased to be included in the The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10, published by Travelers’ Tales. Buy the book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Travel-Writing-Volume/dp/1609520874/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1425062380&sr=8-1
“Cricket Boy” Published in Premier Issue of LOTUS-EATER. A Conversation With Charles Lambert: Read my Lotus-eater interview with author Charles Lambert about his latest book With a Zero at its Heart, published last spring by The Friday Project. Long-time Italy resident, Lambert lives and writes near the sea in Fondi — half way between Rome and Naples. In the interview, …