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Emma Dante’s passionate and brutal plays stem from a need to confront important familial and societal realities in contemporary southern Italy. Her twenty-first century tales challenge stereotypes of the country and stage acts of resistance against the social, political, and economic conditions of Sicily. The seven works in this anthology paint a c...

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Thursday March 26 | 5:30pm. Milton & Betty Katz JCC, 501 N Jerome Ave., Margate, NJ 08402. A delicious Kosher Italian Pasta Meal and presentation by Eleanor Foa, author of Mixed Messages: Reflections on an Italian Jewish Family and Exile. In post-World War II America, who ever heard of an Italian Jew? Author, Eleanor Foa born in Italy raised in Ame...

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Friday, March 6, 2020. 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PST. Italian Cultural Center of San Diego - 1629 Columbia Street, San Diego, CA 92101. A lecture about the work of San Diego Italian American writer Lawrence Madalena. Italian almond confetti and a taste of Prosecco will be shared.  In this presentation Clarissa Clò will discuss the novel THE INVISIBLE GLASS...

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Penn State Professor of Italian Sherry Roush has received grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to support work related to translating “Peregrino,” a 500-year-old literary work by Jacopo Caviceo, from Italian into English. Published in 1508, “Peregrino” is considered a proto-...

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Naples in the 1950s: Lenù e Lila are two girls who become friends in a poor neighborhood in the extreme eastern outskirts of the port city. Life was hard and they grew up together as best friends. At times they grew apart to then reunite and become even closer. Their story is told in four books written between 2011 and 2014 by Elena Ferrante: the f...

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Oh, Venice! Its name alone is enough to conjure images of a time gone by. But why stop there? Romantic yet stately, calm yet vibrant, there are so many sides to the city. So to do it justice, we’ve compiled this list of the best descriptions of Venice in literature that will make you fall head over heels with the Floating City (if you haven’t alrea...

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Monday, 03/02/2020 - 6:30pm. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011. On the occasion of the publication of the paperback edition of "Personal Effects Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo" (2019, Fordham University Press). Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors...

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Some of author Michael DeMarco's fondest childhood memories are of sitting at the kitchen table at his grandparents' Erie home and listening to their stories of their ancestral roots in Italy. His grandparents emigrated to the U.S. in the early 1920s from Montenero Val Cocchiara, a secluded village nestled in the central Apennine Mountains in south...

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Kazabo Publishing has published Bruno Morchio’s best-selling book, The German Client (originally Rossoamaro) in English. The German Client was something of a sensation in Italy where it spent several weeks on the Corriere della Sera’s best-seller list and won the Azzercagabugli prize for Best Mystery Novel. In a hospital corridor, private investiga...

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It’s time the world learned the story of basketball’s great pioneer Angelo “Hank” Luisetti, the man who fought the establishment and changed basketball’s genetic footprint. Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in 1891; Hank Luisetti reinvented it in 1936. Hank Luisetti grew up in the same San Francisco neighborhood as his contemporary Joe DiMaggi...

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