• Christopher Castellani reads from Leading Men (Viking, 2019)

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

    In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja…

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  • 30 Years of Bordighera Press

    Bordighera Press is internationally recognized as the foremost publisher of italianità in North America. Commemorating thirty years of publishing authors in the Italian diaspora, this event will…

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  • B.G. Firmani reads from Time’s a Thief (Doubleday, 2017)

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

    In mid-1980s New York City, Francesca “Chess” Varani strikes up a volatile friendship with her capricious classmate Kendra Marr-Löwenstein. After graduating from Barnard, Chess finds…

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  • Third Annual Evening of Poetry

    To commemorate National Poetry Month, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, and the journal Italian Americana are hosting their…

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  • Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965

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

    Danielle Battisti University of Nebraska–Omaha In Whom We Shall Welcome (Fordham University Press, 2019), Danielle Battisti examines post–World War II immigration by Italians to the…

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