THE PARIS REVIEW: Remembering Lucia Berlin
Read "Smoking with Lucia" - a remembrance of my friendship with the brilliant writer Lucia Berlin in The Paris Review. Also selected for Paris Review's "Best of 2015."
Edizione Sur: Italian translation of “Smoking with Lucia”
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!…
Listen up! Bestseller “The Marco Chronicles” available on AUDIBLE
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…
My insider’s guide to (not) dating Italian men in The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10
Very pleased to be included in the The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10, published by Travelers' Tales. Buy the book: The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10
“The Marco Chronicles” A Kindle Bestseller for Humor, At Play & The World Stage
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…
Natural Disasters: Stories that explore the urgency—and danger—of desire
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…
Read 2 Micro-Travel Pieces
"Morning Alms" & "Monsoon Season" in Diodata's premier issue. FOR DIODATA ISSUE 1, SUMMER 2017
“Fumando con Lucia” in El Pais
Lucia Berlin no era políticamente correcta. Y no era New Age. Nunca me habló de “recuperación” o de “karma”. Nunca hablamos de los 12 Pasos. Se sobrentendía: ya no bebía. No hacía falta hablarlo. Especialmente cuando podía escribir sobre ello. En sus relatos, poblados por alcohólicos y adictos, retratados con…
A Conversation (in Italian) about author Lucia Berlin
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.) .) [caption…
Wake up your writing in Umbria this summer
Join me in beautiful Assisi for A Fork in the Road: Food & Travel Writing Workshop Summer 2016 Art Workshop International 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…
Solas Awards for Best Travel Stories: I won two! … Read an excerpt …
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…
The Marco Chronicles selected for The Best Travel Writing
"The Marco Chronicles: To Rome, Without Love" will be published in The Best Travel Writing Volume 10, edited by James O’Reilly, Larry Habegger and Sean O’Reilly for Travelers' Tales. The anthology will be published in January 2015 and can be pre-ordered from Barnes & Noble or Amazon.