Other Writing

I wrote an article for People about my friend Maria Volonta and how she volunteered to be my new Italian grandmother for Christmas

CrimeReads published my article “Unmasking the ’Ndrangheta, the Most Powerful Criminal Syndicate You’ve Never Heard Of”

Electric Literature invited me to write “8 Books about Americans in Italy.”

My short story “The Very Last Time” was published in the September/October 2021 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. It was also selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery & Suspense 2022, edited by Steph Cha and Jess Walter. This is such a terrific collection—I had a lot of fun reading the other stories.

I wrote about my 95-year-old Calabrian friend Signora Maria’s life advice for surviving COVID-19 quarantine for Parade magazine.

In their December 2019 issue, Real Simple ran my essay about when my mom and I decoded my great aunt’s secret cookbook to try to recreate her Italian cookie recipes.

The Boston Globe published my editorial on white Americans’ immigrant origins.

CrimeReads published my article on “What Writing a Book Taught Me About Being an Editor.”

I got to itemize some of my favorite literature of the Italian South for Electric Lit.

Publishers Weekly published my listicle “Vanishing Narrators” about my favorite novels with obsessive non-protagonist narrators.

I wrote about the Aspromonte and editing Calabrese writer Gioacchino Criaco’s novel Black Souls for CrimeReads.

“Monologue,” a short story, was published on Anderbo.

I wrote about my favorite Japanese poet, Tanikawa Shuntaro, for Words Without Borders.

They also let me write about the thousandth anniversary of The Tale of Genji, and the challenges in translating it.