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  • March 2010

  • Thu 18
    March 18, 2010 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Mike Cavallaro reads from Parade (With Fireworks) (Image Comics, 2008)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Mike Cavallaro’s comic is based on a family story that takes place during the Feast of the Epiphany in 1923 Calabria. Tensions are high between…

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  • April 2010

  • Wed 7
    April 7, 2010 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Steven J. Belluscio discusses and reads from The Grand Gennaro by Garibaldi M. Lapolla (Rutgers University Press, 2009)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    First published in 1935, The Grand Gennaro is considered a cornerstone of early Italian-American fiction. It now appears newly edited and with an introduction by…

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  • May 2010

  • Mon 10
    May 10, 2010 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Penny Arcade presents Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews (MIT Press, 2009)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Penny Arcade (born Susanna Ventura) emerged in the 1980s as a primal force in the New York art scene and an originator of what has…

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  • September 2010

  • Mon 27
    September 27, 2010 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Mary Caponegro reads from All Fall Down (Coffee House Press, 2009)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Mary Caponegro’s experimental fiction blurs the line between fantasy and reality. In these stories of love and healing gone awry, we visit Rome and a…

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  • October 2010

  • Tue 5
    October 5, 2010 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Readings from Avanti Popolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus (Manic D Press, 2008)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    The Avanti Popolo poetry anthology, edited by the Italian-American Political Solidarity Club, focuses on re-interpreting the glorification of Christopher Columbus in mainstream Italian-American culture. Instead…

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  • November 2010

  • Wed 10
    November 10, 2010 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Gioia Timpanelli reads from What Makes a Child Lucky (W.W. Norton, 2008)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Acclaimed storyteller Gioia Timpanelli presents her latest book, a novella of danger and survival in late nineteenth-century rural Sicily. After his best friend is killed…

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  • December 2010

  • Mon 13
    December 13, 2010 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Frank Lentricchia reads from The Italian Actress (State University of New York Press, 2009)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Set in Italy, Frank Lentricchia’s sixth novel features protagonist Jack Del Piero, a has-been, “former avant-garde” filmmaker, once internationally acclaimed for his experimental work but…

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  • February 2011

  • Thu 3
    February 3, 2011 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Paula Butturini reads from Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy (Riverhead, 2010)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Journalists Paula Butturini and John Tagliabue met in Italy in 1985 and four years later married in Rome. Less than a month after the wedding,…

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  • March 2011

  • Wed 30
    March 30, 2011 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Joanna Clapps Herman reads from The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America (SUNY Press, 2011)

    “I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century.” With that, Joanna Clapps Herman concisely describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing…

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  • April 2011

  • Thu 14
    April 14, 2011 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Pauline Spatafora reads from Dear Sister: Letters Home to Sicily from Wartime America (Reed & Quill Press, 2009)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Following the death of her sister Teresa in 1938, Anna La Camera left Paradiso, a hamlet of Milazzo (Messina province), Sicily, and set sail on…

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  • May 2011

  • Tue 17
    May 17, 2011 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Anthony Di Renzo reads from Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen (SUNY Press, 2010)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    In Bitter Greens, Anthony Di Renzo reflects on Italian food, American culture, and globalization. Despite the inclusion of six recipes, the book is not an…

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  • September 2011

  • Thu 22
    September 22, 2011 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Vincent Panella reads from Lost Hearts (Apollo’s Bow, 2010)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    This powerful suite of stories begins in 1900 against a background of rural Sicilian class warfare. A young man kills his violent, adulterous father and…

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