Joanna Clapps Herman reads from No Longer and Not Yet
Thursday, October 2 Most of these stories take place on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, in the shops, hallways, and parks that reveal this well-known neighborhood…
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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Dolores DeLuce reads from My Life, a Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Thursday, October 9 Dolores DeLuce, “a five-foot diva in six-inch heels,” takes us on the bumpy ride from a bleak New Jersey childhood through her…
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Marie-Helene Bertino reads from 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas (Crown Publishers, 2014)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed aspiring jazz singer–and also a nine-year-old girl. As she mourns the recent death of her mother and takes care of…
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Mary Jo Bona reads from I Stop Waiting for You (Bordighera Press, 2014)
Louisa Calio reads from Journey to the Heart Waters (Legas, 2014)
George Guida reads from The Sleeping Gulf (Bordighera Press, 2015)This event features three poets coming together to read from their latest works. Maria Mazziotti Gillan has called Mary Jo Bona’s I Stop Waiting for…
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Mark Chiusano reads from Marine Park: Stories (Penguin Books, 2014)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Marine Park—in the far reaches of Brooklyn, virtually train-less and tourist-free—finds its literary chronicler in Mark Chiusano. Chiusano’s stories delve into family, boyhood, sports, drugs,…
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Three Poet Laureates: Lorraine LoFrese Conlin, Maria Lisella, and Robert Savino
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This event will bring together three Italian American New York poet laureates—each originally hailing from Jamaica, Queens—for an evening of verse and conversation. Poet Laureates…
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Cheryl Della Pietra reads from Gonzo Girl: A Novel (Touchstone, 2015)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Alley Russo is a young aspiring novelist who arrives at Walker Reade’s compound in the Colorado Rockies hoping to win the job as his assistant.…
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Readings from Rabbit Ears: TV Poems
Edited by Joel Allegretti (NYQ Books, 2015)John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Rabbit Ears: TV Poems is the first anthology of poetry about a medium that has hugely influenced America’s language, politics, opinions, tastes, and lifestyles. The…
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Olivia Kate Cerrone reads from The Hunger Saint (Bordighera Press, 2017) Camilla Trinchieri reads from Seeking Alice: A Novel (SUNY Press, 2016)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This evening presents two books set in the post–World War II era. Hailed by Kirkus as “a well-crafted and affecting literary tale,” Olivia Kate Cerrone’s…
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Christian Picciolini reads from White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out (Hachette Books, 2017)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036White nationalist rallies in the United States have drawn the ire of people across the nation and the world, and Christian Picciolini has emerged as…
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Readings from Gil Fagiani’s Missing Madonnas, (Bordighera Press, 2018)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the posthumously published Missing Madonnas, the late poet Gil Fagiani writes with lyricism and humor about the absurdities of life, from mythical Madonnas to…
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Christopher Castellani reads from Leading Men (Viking, 2019)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja…
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