For many years now, Orion Magazine has been a guiding light for me as both reader and writer, so I'm especially grateful for the opportunity its editors gave Alexis Adams and myself to have an extended conversation about borders, belonging, rivers, forests, ecological grief, resistance and love. Called Heart's Home, this conversation grew out of … Continue reading Heart’s Home
I'm delighted to share the finished cover for the North American edition of Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece, which will be published by Godine on April 14th. With huge thanks to Nicole Caputo for the absolutely beautiful design and for having the brilliant idea of placing Edward Lear's illustration of a … Continue reading Lifelines: North American edition
No book is ever written in isolation or stands on its own. The work of writing one might seem like a solitary endeavour given the single name on its cover, but each is indelibly and essentially shaped by countless people, places, conversations and encounters hidden just out of sight beyond the edge of the page. … Continue reading Lifelines: A book’s beginnings
I'm delighted to say that my new book, Lifelines, was published last week, nearly twenty-five years after my wife, Julia, and I arrived in Prespa in northern Greece with the aim of radically changing our lives. All we had to go on at the time was the book about the region that had convinced us … Continue reading Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece
I first met Matina Galati in a grove of extraordinary juniper trees on a limestone mountain above the Prespa lakes where I live in northern Greece. That day, I’d been walking with the Hungarian gardener and botanist Máté Tálas and two friends of his when Matina arrived from Athens to join the group for the … Continue reading Artwork for Lifelines: Interview with Matina Galati
Julian Hoffman 