Other writings and editorial work
by katharine ogden michaels
Lead Writer of Award Winning Film The Gambler, Directed by Karoly Makk
A dramatic film that tells intertwining stories adapted from Fyodor Dostovesky’s novel, and the circumstances and events surrounding its composition. The film was directed by Károly Makk and starred Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Dominic West, Polly Walker, and Luise Rainer. Produced by Canal Plus Image International, Channel Four Films, and Gambler Productions, the film was released in 1997 in Europe and America, winning awards at the Brussels International Film Festival, the Emden International Film Festival, and Festroia: Troia International Film Festival.
Writer of the Introduction to a new Italian translation of Joseph Conrad’s novel The Mirror of the Sea
Italian translation of the Introduction was done in collaboration with Alberto Rossatti. Published by Rizzoli-Mondadori, 2021.
Writer of a series of essays that were first published in The Threepenny Review
- “On Desire“, an essay on the nature of longing (Fall 2019)
- “When History Becomes Fiction“, in A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel (Winter 2017);
- “A Murder Foretold“, a reading of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom (Spring 2013);
- “Stone Grammarian“, on the restoration of stone farmhouses in Italy, part of A Symposium on Architecture (Spring 2012).
Editor’s Notes, The Collected Stories of Leonard Michaels (2007) and The Essays of Leonard Michaels (2009), both published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Writer of Rembrandt Catalogue
“Rembrandt”, a Catalogue for a show of original prints by the artist at the Barclay Simpson Art Gallery, Lafayette, CA, 1989.