Jack Erickson
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Vita di Paese by Jack Erickson
July 2026
Traveling Italy
Jack Erickson is the author of international thrillers, mysteries, true crime, and romantic suspense novels. In earlier careers, Erickson was an Air Force intelligence officer, U.S. Senate speechwriter, freelance writer, senior...
Alba's Tartufo
October 2022
October and November are tartufo (truffle) season in Piemonte in northwest Italia. I was studying Italian in Torino in early October last year and joined a few classmates one weekend. We took a train from Torino to Alba, famous for its truffle...
The Violin Museum in Cremona, Italy
September 2022
When I visit Italy, I balance my time with research, travel, studying Italian, and learning about Italy’s many contributions to art, culture, science, and history.
One of the highlights [on a previous visit] was returning to Cremona to tour the...
Cinecittà: Hollywood on the Tiber
September 2020
Cinecittà Studios, Italian for Cinema City Studios, is a large film studio in Rome. Sitting on 99 acres, it is the largest film studio in all of Europe. Cinecittà was constructed during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film...
Santa Rosalia and Festa Italia
November 2019
L’emigrazione dai paesi sulla costa ovest della Sicilia verso gli Stati Uniti è molto interessante, specialmente per come questi gruppi si sono poi assimilati, portando con sé la conoscenza della pesca e le loro feste tradizionali. A Monterey, in...
Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend"
January 2019
Naples-born author Elena Ferrante has swept through the literary world like a whirlwind. If you've read her novels, you'll understand why she's so popular.
Ferrante's first novel in her best-selling Neapolitan series, “My Brilliant Friend,”...
