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March 20, 2020 · by Linda Strange · in Canada, England, Italy, USA

The Venetians have gotten their city back. Certainly not the way they wanted to get it back, not as the…

Gina

Gina

December 30, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in Italy, USA

Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austro-Hungarian writer who was born, wrote, and died a long time ago. He was most…

Spread the Word

Spread the Word

April 22, 2017 · by Linda Strange · in Italy

Venice is a city of illusions: illusions of water and light, of time and space, of stillness and movement. Looking…

Venice

Venice

May 1, 2016 · by Linda Strange · in Italy

Imagine a city where the taxi journey from the airport so satisfies your desire for adventure, your longing for beauty,…

The Neighborhood

The Neighborhood

August 19, 2015 · by Linda Strange · in Italy, USA

Can you believe it? The maple leaves are starting to turn. It seems like summer, while we’re still in the…

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All countries are strange, none stranger than your own.

January 2023
I am delighted to announce that Glass Mountain Literary Magazine has published my short story Retention in their current issue. You can read the story here.
September 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of a blog about the Berlin Wall, The Wall I Knew.
July 2022
Watch a video of me reading a live version of my blog, The Last of the Best.
May 2022
I’m excited to announce three pieces of my writing have recently been published. What Ever Happened to Igor, an essay in Pangyrus, is about a study trip I took to Ukraine in 1985 with a group of Finns and Swedes. Igor was a young Ukrainian-Swedish man from Stockholm who was going to meet his father in Kyiv, a father he hadn’t seen in twenty years. Want to watch a video of me reading the essay? Click here. Will They Make it Home Again?, another essay in Pangyrus, explores the relationship between the images of World War Two childhood evacuations recorded in select works of European literature and the images of evacuation we now see on our television screens from Ukraine. Click here to watch the video.
Finally, The Longest Day, is a short story published in the 2022 Freshwater Literary Journal. It details the experience of a young non-English speaking Cape Verdean girl, Gee, on her first day in an American inner-city school. It is an account of Gee’s first encounter with her new ESL teacher and the safe space this teacher creates for Gee to express her true emotions. Watch a You Tube video of me speaking with Georbina DaRosa, the real-life inspiration for my story.

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