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The ebullient writer and performance artist Annie Lanzillotto presents her latest publication, in which she invites readers to join her on a poetic journey to…
In his third novel Anthony Marra recounts a story of Roman immigrant Maria Lagana who has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. On the…
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 6pm Angelo Zeolla reads from The Bronx Unbound, ovvero i versi Bronxesi (Bordighera Press, 2023) With rugged verse “like a strega’s…
It is the summer of 1965, and Christopher Ricci’s mother has run away. Chris’s father, unable to take care of him, decides to leave the…
New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra has created an endearing character in the amateur sleuth Nonna Maria. Nonna Maria is a lifetime resident of…
Three women artists with roots in Basilicata gather to discuss their work and shared origins. Penny Arcade (born Susana Ventura into a family hailing from…
Juliet Grames reads from The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia: A Novel (Knopf, 2024) …
George Guida reads from The Uniform (Guernica World Editions, 2024) Alexander Sammartino reads from Last Acts (Scribner, 2024) Two writers explore the expectations and realities…
F. K. Clementi reads from South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home (University of South Carolina Press, 2024) Growing up in 1970s Italy, F.…
Award-winning actor and playwright Frank Ingrasciotta performs excerpts from his acclaimed solo play Blood Type: RAGU, which was published this year. The 2009 off-Broadway production…
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED This novel is told from the perspective of the irrepressible yet lonely Christina, an Italian American teen in 1960s Catholic…
Moving beyond tales of Southern Italian poverty and deprivation, The Tomb of the Divers weaves an immigrant yarn about small-time artists and crooks who, over the…