From the series "Books That Beat Their Iconic Sister-Books," cited in the LA Review of Books.
Three great literary characters who are terrible people.
On Lampedusa's only novel, aristocratic decline, and sentences that outlive their subjects.
Ideally you should begin this process approximately ten years before you plan to get divorced by meeting the best person you have ever known and marrying them.
Fiction.
A new translation of the Inferno in English verse. Cantos I–III complete. “Horror descended on my head as a hood.”
Excerpts available on request.
Translated “The Coral Necklace” by Contessa Lara.
Carrie Hill Wilner (LeBigre) is a writer, editor, attorney, and teacher based in New York.
She teaches Writing for the Social Sciences at the City College of New York (CCNY), where her course is organized around the Trivium—grammar, logic, rhetoric—as sequential problems of clarity. She previously taught Rhetoric and Composition at CCNY with a focus on Classical Greek drama and epic poetry.
Her writing has appeared in The Hairpin, The Toast, The Awl, Nerve, and Barrelhouse, among others. Her literary criticism series “Books That Beat Their Iconic Sister-Books” was cited in the LA Review of Books. She has edited for Thomson Reuters and the Journal of Gender and Law.
She holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Peter Jay Sharp Scholar and James Kent Scholar, and a B.A. in Italian from Columbia College. She studied at the Università di Bologna, where she received highest honors in Contemporary Italian Literature.