NOTE: This is barely a review; it’s more like a recap. On March 1, I headed down to Azusa Pacific University by bus to see Billy Collins read some of his poetry. My mother, who works …
Set in 1930s and ‘40s France and Poland, Amandine is Marlena de Blasi’s first work of fiction. (She’s the author of the memoirs A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany, among other …