You were a delight, Sofka. Thank you for doing this event with us! “Stealing Dad” is a wonderful book.

Thank you, Sofka, for this dazzling and generous write-up. I’m hugely looking forward to our talk about Greece, writing and your brilliant novel, “Stealing Dad”!

I admired @johnkittmer.bsky.com even more when he gave up diplomacy to write a PhD thesis on the Communist poet Yiannis Ritsos - hear him discuss Ritsos & Theodorakis songs on my podcast Athens Unpacked (Ep. 6, Songs & Poems).

When @johnkittmer.bsky.social arrived in Athens slap bang in the thick of the appalling economic crisis in 2013, there were many challenges but he quickly became hugely popular & active, aided by his perfect modern Greek - he could sing Greek songs, quote Greek poetry & use twitter like a local.