Linda Lappin

Katherine's Wish
Katherine's Wish "A dazzling bit of fictional sorcery" David Lynn, editor Kenyon Review

Signatures in Stone
"We are constantly immersed in a network of signs and symbols whose meaning eludes us, but which, if only we could read them, would reveal every detail of our past and even of our future."

THE ETRUSCAN
A novel
Galway, Ireland: Wynkin deWorde,2004
"Haunted... vivid... entrancing"
Kirkus Reviews

Cruel Islands: Mal D'Isola
An unsettling discovery of Alicudi, in the Aeolian islands

Magic, Mysteries, and Unknown Trails in Lazio, Tuscany,and Sardinia
Exploring remote corners of Lazio, Tuscany, and Sardinia. Links to travel essays

Notebooks of a Tuscan Recluse
Here before me I have a steaming cup of tea, a plate of glowing lemons, a cauliflower, a blue china bowl whose silky glaze captures the flickering firelight. As I sit here in a strange state of wakefulness and inner quiet, the objects around me seem to acquire a new volume and weight. They seem to inhabit a higher realm of stillness, both within me and without me. Now the fire is leaping in the grate. Is it my imagination or do these old houses still preserve in the resonating stones of their structure, in their wooden beams and worn brick floors, traces of energy left by those simpler souls who once lived and moved within these walls at their own unhurried pace? At this moment, even the room itself seems alive and aware of me, its temporary passenger.

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Missing Person in Montparnasse:
The Case of Jeanne Hebuterne
For over eighty years after her suicide, Jeanne's
family tried to conceal her connection to the last
great painter of Montmartre, and to hide her
artworks from the world. This essay
reconstructs the brief life and intense
work of an artist whose drawings and paintings
were first viewed in October 2000. Published in The Literary Review, Summer 2002, "Missing Person in Montparnasse" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize

The Ghosts of Fontainebleau
This essay explores Katherine Mansfield's
sojourn at George I. Gurdjieff's Institute
for the Harmonious Development of Man
in Fontainebleau.

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BROTHERS
BROTHERS by Carmelo Samona'
A Novel by Carmelo Samonà

Discover Lappin's award-winning translation
of a recent Italian classic which received the Strega prize in 78. Lappin's translation
was awarded the Poggioli Award for translation into Italian from PEN and an NEA. It was published by
Carcanet and is available from www.amazon.co.uk
and www.bn.com