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Carlo Levi’s memoir, “Christ Stopped at Eboli,” was a literary sensation in post-Fascist Italy. First published in 1945, the book is Levi’s memorable account of life among impoverished Italian villagers in the 1930s. Three decades later, an immersive and engaging film adaptation directed by Francesco Rosi enshrined the book’s underlying neorealist...

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Saturday April 13, 2019. Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM. World Cafe Live Philadelphia, 3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Buy Tickets here. Back for it’s third time at our downstairs venue and presented every two years receiving a standing ovation every time, La Giara (The Water Jug) merges Italian Folk and Opera with Brazilian Choro and Jazz, t...

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The year 2019 marks the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Primo Levi, a writer and chemist who, like no one else before him, was able to represent the Shoah and its echoes in literature. Levi’s precision and linguistic clarity make him one of the most significant Italian writers of the last century. Professor Marco Belpoliti, a leading expert on Pr...

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Author Mark Di Ionno acknowledges that Gods of Wood and Stone is a clearly masculine book, ostensibly about sports — predictable fare from a reporter who has covered it for years. Yet in Di Ionno’s talk Tuesday at the Morristown & Township Library, it became clear that his novel really is about the changing American experience, and the loss of trad...

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“Leading Men,” the acclaimed new novel by Christopher Castellani, is the author’s fourth. But, as he told an audience at his March 7 reading at the Calandra Italian American Institute in Manhattan, he considers it his first, or rather, “the first that was fully imagined.” His previous books (“A Kiss from Maddalena,” “The Saint of Lost Things,” and...

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MAMbo, fermata di The Great New York Subway. A tracciare una linea di collegamento tra la Metropolitana della Grande Mela e il Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna è l’ultimo volume scritto e illustrato da Emiliano Ponzi La grande mappa della Metropolitana di New York (MoMA – FATATRAC Edizioni, 2018). Un racconto sulla genesi della mappa disegnata nel 1...

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Let’s begin with a little test: which of these authors are NOT Italian writers? Pay attention to appearances that could lead you to make a mistake. Barolini, Janeczek, De Lillo, Lahiri, Lakhous, Scego, Talese, Tusiani.  The answer can be found at the end of the article. So, what does it mean to be an “Italian writer”?   Someone who has Italian citi...

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L’Italia e gli albori del «secolo americano»: questo è il titolo del nuovo libro di GianPaolo Ferraioli, da oggi disponibile in libreria a cura delle Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane. GianPaolo Ferraioli è un vecchia conoscenza della redazione di Sicania News, che ha già avuto il piacere di recensire tanti altri suoi libri, a testimonianza della prol...

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Laine Faro, a married mother and grandmother from a large Italian family who enjoys cooking, reading romance novels, and the outdoors, has completed her book "Cannoli for the Cop Next Door: Corsco Family Series Book I": a passionate love story for fans of romantic fiction. Laine writes, "Lily is transforming the house she bought with her husband in...

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Monday, April 8, 2019. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT. Location: Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Hall (upstairs). 1654 State Street, San Diego, California 92101. Reserve your seats here. Back by popular demand is Roger Sabbadini's presentation of the compelling true story of his father - an Italian Jewish refugee, Alessandro (Alex) Sabbadini, who escaped Fasc...

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