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Bordighera Press and the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) will once again be sharing a table at The Brooklyn Book Festival, one of America’s premier book festivals and the largest free literary event in New York City. Presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors, the Festival includes a week of Bo...

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When Mike Stanton was researching what would become "The Prince of Providence," his riveting book about mayor-turned-felon Buddy Cianci, he learned that Cianci's father used to take him to the fights at the old Rhode Island Auditorium. One of the headliners in those days, the 1940s, was Rocky Marciano, the heavyweight from Brockton, Mass. "I was dr...

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If a summer romance novel is what you are craving to read as you sit by the pool or beach, Adriana Trigiani's Lucia, Lucia is a perfect choice. Set in 1950 New York City, the novel is about a young woman, Lucia Sartori, who is determined to have a career and be able to support herself, an unusual choice for a girl who was raised in a conservative I...

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Stefan Talty, giornalista e scrittore americano, ha presentato ieri a Palermo il suo libro “La mano nera. La vera storia di Joe Petrosino”. Domani alle ore 18.00, nella Sala Mattarella a Palazzo dei Normanni, Talty riceverà il premio “Joe Petrosino Sicilia” da parte del Rotary Club Palermo. Ma del testo e del suo autore sentiremo ancora parlare dat...

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I first met David Eastis 15 years ago when he presided over the Silicon Valley chapter of Slow Food, originally among the first five chapters the U.S. Eastis was the Shakespearean "mine host" of a gluttonous event at the upscale Flea Street Cafe in Menlo Park, where 56 gastronomes of all shapes and sizes feasted at a snail's pace for over three hou...

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During the 1960s, what was once an essentially American institution, the Western motion picture, was pretty much taken over as a thriving Italian movie industry churned out numerous box-office hits that came to be called Spaghetti Westerns. So what, you might ask, does this have to do with Andrea Camilleri's short novel, "The Sacco Gang," as transl...

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Da New York alla Sicilia: la scrittrice italo-americana Annie Rachele Lanzilotto sta ripercorrendo, nella nostra regione, gran parte dei luoghi di nascita delle 24 emigrate siciliane che persero la vita nel rogo della fabbrica Triangle il 25 marzo 1911 a New York; quando le fiamme si portarono via sogni e speranze di queste donne coraggiose che ave...

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Marianna Randazzo is an Italian-American author from New York City. Teacher, wife, mother and grandmother, she taught for over 35 years, both in the educational system of NYC and as an instructor at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum. After retirement, she devoted all her energies to teaching Italian culture. Marianna is an officer in Staten Island’s Capo...

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Il giornalista e scrittore americano Stephan Talty, alle ore 18 di martedì 17 luglio 2018 a Palermo, incontrerà la stampa italiana presso i locali di SPAZIO AGORA’ (via XII Gennaio, 2). Stephan Talty, è autore del libro “La mano nera. La vera storia di Joe Petrosino”, tradotto di recente anche in italiano. I diritti del libro di Talty sono stati ac...

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Gina Fava, an author of suspense novels and a feature writer on travel, Italian culture, art, wine, cooking, books, and cinema has written a new book, Un Momento: A Taste of Italian-American Pastimes, a non-fiction collection of essays and recipes for release in the midst of Italian festival season. Un Momento is Fava’s first nonfiction book, which...

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