Monday, September 22 Luzzi creates a personal portrait of Italy that leaps past clichés, delving into why Italian Americans have complicated relationships with the “old…

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…

Thursday, 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…

Madeleine 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…

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…

Marine 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,…

This 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…

Alley 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.…

Rabbit 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…

This 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…

White nationalist rallies in the United States have drawn the ire of people across the nation and the world, and Christian Picciolini has emerged as…

In the posthumously published Missing Madonnas, the late poet Gil Fagiani writes with lyricism and humor about the absurdities of life, from mythical Madonnas to…