Bailey Alexander: Dreams from Northern Italy

Excerpt from “A European Odyssey: How A Boxer’s Daughter Found Grace” “If Paris and Edinburgh had an affair their love child would look like Amsterdam. Canals lined with savvy and kinky shops and services safely contained within a handsome, brooding exterior. And the citizens would be good looking and very tall; this last quality, quintessentially…

Why we are well advised……lest we forget who we were….

On our way.  Finding a translator for “Personal Legends of Piemonte” was daunting. My Italian isn’t great – how would I know the translation was any good. Getting ‘Lost in Translation’ occurs in the same language everyday – in work, relationships and social media.  Finally, found two, through contacts. For irrational reasons, this felt critical.…

Thanks to Piemonte, Italy was united. But my next book “Personal Legends of Piemonte” isn’t about that history, or Turin – the former capital of Italy, the former capital of fashion. Agnelli was cool, as were his cars. But this book is about the small towns, where the heart of Piemonte lives and breathes. Where…

Finally, I sent my book to the editor. To proofread. After editing it 7 more times, just this past month; even he agreed. Proofread only. He’ll turn it around, then the translator will turn my words into Italian. It took me forever to figure out what I really wanted to say. I had to cross…