Writer and professor Andre Aciman reads from his story, “Roman Hours,” originally published in the Conde Nast Traveler and reprinted in The Best American Travel Writing of 2002. In it, he transports the listener to the Rome he moved to as a refugee at age 14, and the home he longed to live in.
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