Sharp Monica
Monica SharpLiterary essays, cultural criticism, and dispatches from Florence.
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How One Pranzo Launched a Thousand Shares
Pictured: the moment 'pass the crostini ' became a table poll on the American soul.
This month’s dip into the publications archive comes with a memorable origin story. We were out of town at a Sunday lunch on some lake—Jason’s colle...
The Doriad - Books I-III
Dispensing judgment with one large paw...
Sing, O Muse,
of the many-sorrowed feline, the cunning restless one,
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who journeyed far from...
Paris. London. New York. Rome?
Maid in Manhattan, 1998. Note suit (and lapels), gigantic fake engagement ring (fending off unwanted attention), silver James Avery earrings, charmingly fresh-faced. That’s not a cigarette; I’m smoking a breadstick.
Publication alert! My...
Beyond the Gateway
Puusauna with thimbleberry bush. Savonlinna, Lake Saimaa, Finland August 2025.
The gateway travel destination is a phenomenon I’ve been mulling over again and again in my loose series here on Substack about travel reflections, tourism and...
What Feeds You
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi — American poet and essayist, decades in Parma, author of Mother Tongue and The Other Side of the Tiber — stood before a room of writers in a church undercroft in Florence on a Saturday morning and began with one questi...
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Writer & editor: literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism. Published in Adamah Media, Mediterranean Poetry, Open Doors Review, Fiction on the Web, Impspired, others. Founding editor, Via Media Review. Florence, Italy. sharpmonica.com
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