Venice for Lovers

Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In Venice for Lovers, the couple has fashioned an homage to the City of Water. In her essay, Muhlstein charmingly describes how becoming friends with restaurateurs has been an unsurpassed means of getting to know the city and its inhabitants-Venetians like Ernesto, whose restaurant they have dinner in every night for many years, and who tells them of the great flood that ne...