Biography Alane Salierno Mason is a senior editor at W.W. Norton. She has been a book reviewer for The Baltimore Sun and occasional essayist and reviewer for Commonweal and Vanity Fair. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including The Best Spiritual Writing 2001, edited by Philip Zaleski and Andre Dubus III (Harper San Francisco). Links to the contributor's work in Frigate Issue #3 ESSAY/FEATURES: BURIED TREASURES Excerpts from Conversations in Sicily by Elio Vittorini, translated by Alane Salierno Mason

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