The author of Guido Brunetti series talks about her new novel, the memoir “Wandering Through Life” and her choices -- in life and art
I think they will follow me into more ecological concerns. Climate change is the push button, it’s the detonator, it’s madness.In the introduction of your latest book, the memoir “Wandering Through Life,” you write that you are “feckless and unthinking by nature and have never planned more than the first step in anything I’ve done.” You also say that you lack ambition. Have those qualities hindered you?Oh, no, they’ve worked to my advantage. I think that our generation was corrupted by ambition.
I was a junkie for Italy. My family is not Italian; they are Irish, German and Spanish. But when I went for the first time, I went with a classmate of mine, who wanted to go and study painting. I said, “Yeah, okay, why not?” So I quit my job. And we went to Rome together, she to study painting. I don’t know why I went. I guess to get away from writing advertising copy in New York. I was shattered by how wonderful Italy was and how wonderful Italians were. I was like St.
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