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  • October 2008

  • Mon 27
    October 27, 2008 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Marisa Labozzetta reads from At the Copa (Guernica, 2007).

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

    With humor and poignancy, these stories expose the social and sexual turmoil of men and women in “the old age of youth.” In “The Knife…

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  • November 2008

  • Wed 19
    November 19, 2008 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Suze Rotolo reads from A Freewheelin� Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (Broadway Books, 2008)

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

    A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand account of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and her relationship with Bob Dylan. Rotolo grew up during…

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  • December 2008

  • Wed 3
    December 3, 2008 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Robert Tinnell presents his graphic novel Feast of the Seven Fishes (Allegheny Image Factory, 2005)

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

    A 2006 Eisner Award-nominee for “Best Graphic Album: Reprint,” Feast of the Seven Fishes is a hardcover collection of the online strip serialized in 2004-2005…

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  • February 2009

  • Tue 10
    February 10, 2009 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Carl Capotorto reads from Twisted Head: An Italian American Memoir (Broadway Books, 2008)

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

    Twisted Head is a witty and poignant memoir of a young man growing up in a working-class Italian-American family in the Bronx during the 1960s…

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  • March 2009

  • Thu 12
    March 12, 2009 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Justin Catanoso reads from My Cousin the Saint: A Search for Faith, Family, and Miracles (William Morrow, 2008)

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

    My Cousin the Saint charts the parallel history of two relatives, Justin Catanoso’s grandfather, Carmelo, and his canonized cousin, Father Gaetano. Carmelo emigrated from the…

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  • April 2009

  • Mon 6
    April 6, 2009 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Laura Schenonereads from The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family (W.W. Norton, 2007)

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

    In The Lost Recipes of Hoboken, Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother’s ravioli recipe. In lyrical prose and delicious recipes, Schenone…

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  • May 2009

  • Mon 4
    May 4, 2009 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Camilla Trinchieri reads from The Price of Silence (Soho Press, 2007)

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

    Having taken a young Chinese woman under her wing, wife, mother, and respected teacher Emma Perotti finds herself on trial for the young woman’s murder.…

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  • September 2009

  • Mon 14
    September 14, 2009 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Michael J. Agovino reads from The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Family from the Utopian Outskirts of New York City (HarperCollins, 2008)

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

    Michael Agovino grew up in the Bronx’s Co-op City. His Italian-American father, a buttoned-up union man who moonlighted as a bookmaker and gambler, was dogged…

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  • October 2009

  • Tue 6
    October 6, 2009 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    John Giorno reads from Subduing Demons in America: The Selected Poems of John Giorno, 1962-2008 (Soft Skull Press, 2008)

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

    An innovator of poetry and performance, John Giorno’s career spans fifty years and is intertwined with contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, and…

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  • November 2009

  • Wed 4
    November 4, 2009 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Salvatore Scibona reads from The End: A Novel (Graywolf Press, 2008)

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

    A small, incongruous man receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. It is August 15, 1953,…

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  • December 2009

  • Wed 9
    December 9, 2009 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Maria Laurino reads from Old World Daughter, New World Mother: An Education in Love and Freedom (W.W. Norton, 2009)

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

    Few books have discussed feminism through the prism of Italian-American identity. In Old World Daughter, New World Mother, Maria Laurino seeks to reconcile her upbringing…

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  • February 2010

  • Tue 2
    February 2, 2010 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Robert Zweig reads from Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries (Barricade Books, 2008)

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

    As a boy in the 1960s, Robert Zweig, an American Jew of Italian and German descent, had the exceptional opportunity to spend his summer vacations…

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The Italian American Think Tank

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New York, NY 10036

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