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Alternatively you can click here. You get all the text but, alas, no author photograph… Just back from a very interesting evening listening to four New York writers from the New School MFA programme in Fiction Writing at Rome’s John … Continue reading →

Is this really that famous – indeed, iconic – portrait by Margaret Cameron of Virginia Woolf? (Click on the photo for a closer look.) If it is, and I’m pretty sure it is, what on earth is she doing on … Continue reading →

Coming into Rome from the south, trains often used to have to wait a little outside the station for an available platform. The view from the windows on the right side of the train (looking towards Termini) was enlivened by … Continue reading →

This was attached to a packet of cocktail umbrellas. Ouch! Ouch!

According to the lunchtime edition of the state-run news programme TG2, penicillin was discovered by Ian Fleming. Presumably between writing Dr No and From Russia With Love.

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Edi Vesco, the author, among many other things, of a guide to the Harry Potter novels for Italian fans, was murdered by her 18-year-old son last Tuesday. According to the son’s own account, he first tried to rape his mother, … Continue reading →