The Italian American Think Tank
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…