July 8 (Saturday)  5:45 - 7:45 pm The Italian American Writers Association 2nd Saturday Reading Series. Actress, screenwriter and essayist Marianne Leone will read from her second memoir, Ma Speaks Up, published this year by Beacon Press. Peter Carravetta, the D'Amato Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at SUNY/Stony Brook University, and author of eight books of criticism, will read from Poets of the Italian Diaspora, published by Fordham University Press.

Sponsored by The Italian American Writers Association. Cornelia Street Cafe - 29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan. Admission:  $10 (includes one drink); open to the public. Contact:  Maria Lisella 718-777-1178 marialisella@aol.com