AUTHOR · ESSAYIST · SLOW HOURS PODCAST
Books written slowly,
for the long evenings.
Three novels, a book of essays, and a podcast about the quiet hours. Come in, take off your coat, stay as long as you like.
MILAN · WINTER, 2025
THE LIBRARY
Three books, written
without hurry.
The Weight of Small Hours
2024 · A novel about time, memory, and the rooms we return to.
A Tender Argument
2022 · Essays on love, distance, and the language between them.
Every Green Thing
2019 · A quiet debut about grief, gardens, and starting again.
A SHORT INTRODUCTION
I write about the
in-between hours.
I live in Milan with a very old dog and a wall of books I keep meaning to read. My novels are usually about time — the way it folds, the way we lose it, the way a single afternoon can hold a decade.
Before the books there were seventeen years of newspapers, a failed opera, and a great deal of walking. If any of this interests you, we will get along.
KIND WORDS
“
Marchetti writes with the patience of a stonemason and the ear of a poet. You leave her pages softer than you arrived.
— THE ATLANTIC
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A rare, generous voice — the kind you underline in pencil and press flat against your chest.
— VOGUE
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Every sentence earns its silence. This is prose that respects the reader.
— THE PARIS REVIEW
LETTERS FROM THE DESK
A quiet letter,
once a month.
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