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  • November 2011

  • Tue 8

    Adriana Trigiani reads from Don’t Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers (Harper Paperbacks, 2011)

    November 8, 2011 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

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  • December 2011

  • Thu 8

    Tony Ardizzone reads from The Whale Chaser (Academy Chicago Publishers, 2010)

    December 8, 2011 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

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  • April 2012

  • Tue 17

    Readings from Sweet Lemons 2: International Writings with a Sicilian Accent (Legas, 2010)

    April 17, 2012 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

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  • May 2012

  • Thu 10

    Joseph Salvatore reads from To Assume a Pleasing Shape (BOA Editions, 2011)

    May 10, 2012 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

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  • September 2012

  • Thu 20

    Jonathan Galassi reads from Left-handed: Poems (Knopf, 2012)

    September 20, 2012 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

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  • November 2012

  • Wed 14

    Paul LaRosa reads from Leaving Story Avenue: My Journey from the Projects to the Front Page (Park Slope Publishing, 2012)

    November 14, 2012 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

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  • March 2013

  • Wed 13

    Annie Rachele Lanzillotto reads from L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir (SUNY Press, 2013)

    March 13, 2013 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    This poignant memoir takes readers into a world of immigration, gay subculture, cancer treatment, mental illness, gender dynamics, drug addiction, and domestic violence — a…

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  • April 2013

  • Wed 3

    Robert Viscusi reads from Ellis Island (Bordighera Press, 2013)

    April 3, 2013 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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:…

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  • September 2013

  • Thu 26

    Domenica Ruta reads from With or Without You: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau, 2013)

    September 26, 2013 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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,…

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  • October 2013

  • Mon 21

    Christopher Castellani reads from All This Talk of Love (Algonquin Books, 2013)

    October 21, 2013 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

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  • March 2014

  • Tue 11

    Luigi Bonaffini and Joseph Perricone read from Poets of the Italian Diaspora: A Bilingual Anthology (Fordham University Press, 2014)

    March 11, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

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  • September 2014

  • Mon 22

    Joseph Luzzi reads from My Two Italies

    September 22, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

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