The Geography of Loneliness: How Place Shapes the Inner Life By Stefano Maroni

Where We Are, and Who We Become I’ve lived in cities that never sleep and towns where silence is the default language. I’ve walked through Times Square at midnight and down dirt roads in northern New Mexico where the loudest sound is a crow’s wings slicing the air. And what I’ve come to believe is […]
Between Two Worlds: The Immigrant’s Son and the American Myth By Stefano Maroni

A Foot in Two Places I was born in New Jersey, but my roots were planted across the Atlantic. My parents came to America from a small town in southern Italy, carrying little more than a suitcase, a dream, and the belief that this country would offer a better life. Like so many immigrants before […]