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Marine Park—in the far reaches of Brooklyn, virtually train-less and tourist-free—finds its literary chronicler in Mark Chiusano. Chiusano’s stories delve into family, boyhood, sports, drugs,…
Frank Polizzi will provide an overview of his new book of sonnets, A New Life with Bianca, highlighting the important influences on this project. There will…
Way Down in the Hole tells the harrowing story of Colorado’s Ludlow Massacre. In April 1914 a group of coal miners and their families were…
The Story of My People is a moving immigrant autobiography framed in the historical and cultural context of the 1960s and 70s. Reading this book one is…
This collection of essays contributes to the fundamental mission of the Mediterranean Centre for Intercultural Studies—founded in 2012 and located in Erice, Sicily—with the specific…
We are delighted to present two books of poetry. Joey Nicoletti’s Reverse Graffiti (Bordighera Press) has been hailed as a collection of “powerful, heartfelt poems…
On the occasion of the paperback reprint of Renzo De Felice’s The Jews in Fascist Italy, this panel will explore the genesis of the book…
Italytime and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute are pleased to sponsor this new venture of marrying cinema and theater this spring semester. This…
The paintings on exhibition were made in the summers of 2012, 2014, and 2015, during Vincent Baldassano’s tenure as a visiting artist at the American…
For centuries the Feast of the Gigli has been celebrated in Nola, near Naples, every June in honor of Saint Paulinus. The feast features the…
Join us for a conversation with the award-winning writer, Dacia Maraini, one of Italy’s most acclaimned contemporary fiction writer and essayst. She wil be joined…
In The Heart and the Island (SUNY Press, 2015), Chiara Mazzucchelli explores the bond between Sicilian American writers and the island of Sicily. Throughout the…