Peter Pezzelli reads from Home to Italy
After the death of his wife, Mario Peppino decides to leave his Rhode Island home and return to his childhood town of Villa San Giuseppe,…
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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Peter Covino reads from Cut Off the Ears of Winter
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Peter Covino’s poetry can be described as confessional surrealism, such are the heightened psychological landscapes he re-imagines, whether he is exploring issues of identity politics,…
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Victoria Lancelotta reads from her novel Far (Counterpoint)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Far is a haunting exploration of what it means for a woman to be alone in her family, her house and her body, even as…
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Paola Corso reads her collection of short stories Giovanna’s 86 Circles and Other Stories (University of Wisconsin Press)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The ten magical stories in Paola Corso’s collection are primarily set in Pittsburgh area river towns, where Italian American women and girls draw from their…
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Roland Merullo reads from his novel In Revere, In Those Days
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In Revere, In Those Days (Shaye Areheart Books, 2002) is the story of the Benedetto family from the small coastal city Revere, Massachusetts. The story’s…
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Christopher Castellani reads from his novel The Saint of Lost Things
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In his new novel, The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin Books, 2005), Christopher Castellani explores the ties that bind in an Italian neighborhood in Wilmington,…
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Donna Jo Napoli reads from The King of Mulberry Street
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In 1892, a nine-year-old Jewish boy from Naples named Beniamino is smuggled aboard a cargo ship bound for America by his unemployed and impoverished mother. …
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Sacco and Vanzetti (2006), 80 min., Peter Miller, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036NOTE: The film will be screened in partnership with the Gotham Center, CUNY Graduate and will be held in the Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate, 365…
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Closing Time: Storia di un Negozio (2006), 30 min., Veronica Diaferia, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Located at the corner of Mulberry and Grand Streets, E. Rossi & Co. was one of the Italian American community’s oldest and most well-known stores…
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Kym Ragusa reads from The Skin Between Us
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Kym Ragusa’s memoir is situated at the crossroads of two Harlem communities during the 1970s, the West Harlem of her African American mother and the…
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The Italian Gardens of South Brooklyn (1990), 25 min., Alexandra Corbin and Susan Morosoli, dirs.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This video features the Brooklyn neighborhood known historically as South Brooklyn and more recently as Carroll Gardens, an area distinguished by its simple brownstones and…
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Mark Binelli reads from his novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti of Mark Binelli’s debut novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! are not exactly the infamous anarchists sentenced to death…
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