The Italian American Think Tank
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It is the summer of 1978. Half-Jewish, half-Italian Samantha Bonti is fifteen-years-old and living in Bensonhurst with her mother Joan, a cynic scarred by a…
Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani has gathered estimable lessons from her two grandmothers, revealing how their values have shaped her own life. In Don’t Sing at…
The Whale Chaser is the story of Vince Sansone, the eldest child and only son in a large Italian-American family, who comes of age in…
The follow-up volume to the successful 2004 anthology, Sweet Lemons 2 features a diverse array of poetry and prose by writers of Sicilian background. While…
In his debut story collection, Joseph Salvatore presents characters damaged and yet dignified, yearning for something that they seem unable to identify, much less to…
Left-handed, a new book of poems by Jonathan Galassi, chronicles in three sections the painful yet liberating transformation the poet underwent when he discovered, as…
In Leaving Story Avenue, Paul LaRosa details his life journey from childhood in a Bronx housing project to working at the New York Daily News…
This poignant memoir takes readers into a world of immigration, gay subculture, cancer treatment, mental illness, gender dynamics, drug addiction, and domestic violence — a…
Robert Viscusi’s epic poem is composed of 624 Italianate sonnets arranged in 52 groups of twelve, called “books.” The poet uses the literary device chiasmus:…
Domenica Ruta’s With or Without You is a lyrical memoir about a chaotic childhood in a working-class town, the power—and sometimes stranglehold—of a mother-daughter relationship,…
All This Talk of Love, the third novel in Christopher Castellani’s series about the Grasso family, is a moving and engaging depiction of family history…
The worldwide Italian diaspora reportedly numbers more than sixty million people. Until now, however, there has not been an anthology devoted to the literature of…