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Pulitzer-prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri gave Montclair State University a public lecture titled “Unbuilding Walls, Expanding Cultural Horizons: Jhumpa Lahiri on Translation.” The lecture took place Nov. 18, on the seventh floor of University Hall from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Lahiri is the editor and partial translator of “The Penguin Book of Ita...

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Aakenbaaken & Kent Publishers is pleased to announce the release of Sinatra’s Tailor-An Italian Immigrant’s Story, available for purchase at bookstores, directly from the publisher at Aakenbaakeneditor.com, and online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and everywhere books are sold.  Sinatra’s Tailor, by Mark A. Thompson, is the remarkable coming-of-age sto...

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Our families were part of the more than 4 million Italians who came to America during the late 19th and early 20th century to escape poverty and start a new life. They settled in ethnic enclaves across America, working hard and maintaining the traditions while finding success in the mainstream. We all have stories about this journey that we either...

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Sarà presentato a Roma, il 29 novembre alle 17.30, presso la Sala delle Colonne della Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, il libro postumo di Francesco Durante, pubblicato dalla Casa Editrice Carabba a pochi mesi dalla scomparsa.  “CAMILLO&SON – Vita e morte di due grandi giornalisti tra Italia e America” sarà al centro di un incontr...

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I could not imagine a more difficult task than to revisit the places that inspired his commitment to learn Italian, to study with Luigi Bonaffini in New York to decipher the Lancianese dialect well enough to translate his cousins’ poetry; or to stay with the cousins we love and first met on our Sicilian honeymoon; or my cousins in Calabria where we...

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The year 2020 marks the centennial of the birth, on October 23, 1920, of Gianni Rodari, one of the most innovative children’s authors and the first Italian to win the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1970. The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and Bologna Children’s Book Fair will honour the anniversary with the exhibit Illust...

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Thursday, December 05, 2019 at 6:30 pm. Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles, 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024. In collaboration with Consulate General of Italy of Los Angeles and Houston and American Italian Cultural Center. Entrance: Free. Justin A. Nystrom, Associate Professor of History at Loyola University in New Orleans, will...

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No one in children’s literature illuminates the interplay of heartbreak and hope like the two-time Newbery medalist Kate DiCamillo (“Because of Winn-Dixie”; The Tale of Desperaux”). Her latest novel, BEVERLY, RIGHT HERE (Candlewick, 241 pp., $16.99; ages 10 and up), the third in a kind of trilogy that began with “Raymie Nightingale” and continued w...

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Thursday, 11/21/2019 - 6:30pm. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011. Roma | New York 1948-1964. The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation Before | After (Silvana Editoriale, 2019) by Germano Celant. A panel featuring: Emily Braun, CUNY; Germano Celant, art historian, critic, curator; Laura Mattioli, Founder of CIMA; Isabe...

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“Post-made in Italy. Nuovi significati, nuove sfide nella società globale” è il nuovo libro del sociologo Riccardo Giumelli, edito da Altravista Editore. Il testo cerca di comprendere il contesto socio-culturale nel quale il fenomeno del made in Italy si pone. A partire da questi cambiamenti e dalla difficoltà di capire, citando il sociologo Bauman...

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