The ITALIAN DISPATCH By Eric J Lyman

What to do about Airbnb?

What does 'living like a local' mean if the locals are gone?

Feb 17 • Eric J Lyman

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✍️ Dispatch: Everyone Was Trying to Help

My many Italian misadventures with false friends

Feb 10 • Eric J Lyman

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A Wrinkle in Stone

Rome once valued age and experience. Now it’s valued for them

Feb 3 • Eric J Lyman

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January 2026

✍️ Dispatch: Rome in One Day?

A serious answer to the wrong question

Jan 27 • Eric J Lyman

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Not Up to You

Why the neighborhood coffee bar decides whether or not you belong

Jan 20 • Eric J Lyman

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✍️ Dispatch: Confession of a Grape Thief

Lessons from my unremarkable experiment in winemaking

Jan 13 • Eric J Lyman

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America in Italy; Italy in America

What two centuries of 'cultural borrowing' got right, and what going wrong

Jan 6 • Eric J Lyman

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December 2025

✍️ Dispatch: The Last Paparazzo?

An evening with Rino Barillari and the instincts that shaped Italy's celebrity culture

Dec 16, 2025 • Eric J Lyman

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The Venetian Time Machine

Personal Notes from the Quiet Season in the Canal City

Dec 9, 2025 • Eric J Lyman

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✍️ Dispatch: A Florida Man in Rome

Notes from a Romanized American upon returning to the motherland

Dec 2, 2025 • Eric J Lyman

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November 2025

What makes Italy Italy?

Why the country's unwritten rules matter as much as the written ones

Nov 25, 2025 • Eric J Lyman

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✍️ Dispatch: My Roman Thanksgiving

How a patient Testaccio butcher guided me through my first Italian 'Ringraziamento'

Nov 18, 2025 • Eric J Lyman

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