Wow and while she's still alive! that almost NEVER happens, jeez.

I know! The whole thing makes me so happy.

I LOVE the Orsinian stories, I actually wore out my first paperback of them, it split in half, but I still kept it.

Aw.

I even like Malafrena.

I've been meaning to re-read it for years: I'm not sure if the problem was the novel or me or neither, just the fact that the nineteenth-century political novel is not the genre most congenial to me. I mean, you read my anecdote about War and Peace.

And like you I bought Unlocking the Air, just for one last glimpse of it. Wow.

I don't know if authors are allowed to write introductory essays for their own material in the Library of America. If they are, I hope she writes about Orsinia. I've read some interviews over the years, but I would still like to know.

I hope the country is doing all right these days. I hope they don't have fascist political parties or border troubles with Russia. Last I checked the Czech Republic was doing all right and their history is the closest, so I'm hoping.