Jan 18, 2019 | Family - Travel
I have the rather dubious distinction of having been both thrown out of the Vatican, and blessed by the Pope. Though not on the same day. The Vatican Incident (a good Robert Ludlum title) happened while I was on a semester abroad with Eastern Michigan University’s...
Dec 10, 2015 | Books - Cut Scenes - Shakespeare - Short Stories - The Novel - Travel
I've been hunkered down for weeks, scattered between four or five different writing projects. No, at least eight. Wait, that's not right – where am I? What day is it? No matter. Because I'm surfacing to announce the arrival of a long-promised project...
May 17, 2014 | Publishing - Travel
The day after presenting at the Castelvecchio, Jan and I took an early train to Torino for the International Book Fair. Nearly half a million people flock to the convention center in Torino each year, and my publisher La Corte Editore had a large stall just around the...
Mar 10, 2014 | Books - Shakespeare - The Novel - Travel
Below is the letter I penned for the mayor of Verona, proposing the trip I'm making in May of this year. They responded immediately, which was a testament more to the hard work of Italian filmmaker Anna Lelario and her husband Antonio, who have spent the last year...