fiction
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Three-pitch strikeout
I know how freelance writers “pitch” story ideas. Or, as a noun, how you make a “pitch” to a magazine. I know, because I was the editor of the Sunday magazine of the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin. And I was features… Continue reading
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A Netflix gem set in 1860s Italy
The more I learn, the more I realize how vast is my ignorance. Take, for example, a fascinating aristocratic Sicilian writer named Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the 12th Duke of Palma (1896-1957). I’d never heard of him. But diving into… Continue reading
An American journalist heads for Italy to see his country changing from afar. 