City of Lights
I’m spending a week in Turin, Italy, teaching a short seminar on “American Disasters” in the M.A. course at the Università di Torino. Here’s a copy of the syllabus. During the evenings, I’ve been...
View ArticleItalia Oggi / Italy Today
Here is a short film made with the collaboration of some friends and colleagues in Torino, who reflect on the challenges facing contemporary Italians:
View ArticleLost generations
An article in today’s New York Times offers a powerful and unsettling comment on the video I made several weeks ago in Italy. The article describes a demographic time bomb in southern Europe, where...
View ArticleAccidental Deaths
I’m in Torino, Italy for a couple of weeks to teach a course in the Masters in American Studies program. The course is on American Disasters, but while I’m here I’m trying to catch up on Italian...
View ArticleStaten Island Noir
The first short story I’ve ever written is forthcoming in Akashic Books’ fantastic noir series. I just got this copy of the cover; the book comes out in early November. Each volume in Akashic’s series...
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