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Thursday, December 28, 2017 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. WAB: 740 University Avenue, Rochester, New York. Bordighera Press has published a special issue of Voices in Italian Americana (VIA) dedicated to new Italian-American folktales. The issue features the first work seen in this genre in decades and includes authors from Italy, Canada, and the U.S.Two Roch...

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In the lineup of 2 0th-century "bad guys," Adolf Hitler usually comes out on top, with Joseph Stalin running a close second. Behind them, Francisco Franco often appears and, farther down, Benito Mussolini. Now, with the publication of her latest work of nonfiction, A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons...

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A LABOR STRIKE and a heart-wrenching tragedy in 1913, Woody Guthrie at a hootenanny in a New York basement in 1945, and Bob Dylan in a recording studio in 1962 — these three seemingly unrelated events provide the framework for Daniel Wolff’s study of industrial violence in the United States, the folk music revival, and the evolution of rock ’n’ rol...

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It is rare that a biographer of artists becomes the subject of a biography. You don’t think of biographers as romantic figures or swashbuckling types, and their lives are not generally momentous. Unlike artists, who are almost professionally obliged to spread their emotions dazzlingly wide, biographers need to be organized and neat. They go around...

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Friday, December 8, 2017 - from 6 PM to 9 PM EST. I Am Books - 189 North St, Boston (MA) 02113. THE LOFRISCO FAMILY COOKBOOK, HOW JOSIE BROUGHT SICILY TO BROOKLYN by Anthony LoFrisco, is part cookbook, part memoir. The author, son of Sicilian immigrants in the early 1900s, shares not only his mother's time-tested simple and delicious recipes, but h...

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Europa Editions, a U.S. publisher known its focus on literature in translation, is partnering to open an English-language bookstore in Rome. The new bookstore comes about through a partnership between Europa and its parent company, the Italian publisher Edizioni E/O, and the Italian independent bookstore Altroquando. The new store, named Otherwise,...

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“Autentico” (St. Martin’s Griffin) by Rolando Beramendi, is aptly subtitled: "Cooking Italian the Authentic Way." In a nutshell, Beramendi’s well-researched book is the real deal. Its 120 recipes provide instruction on how to make classic dishes from Spaghetti with Black Pepper and Pecorino Romano to Roast Pork Belly with Wild Fennel.

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Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 6 pm. The Routledge History of Italian Americans. Edited by William J. Connell and Stanislao G. Pugliese. Free, open to the public, and held at the Calandra Institute - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036. RSVP by calling (212) 642-2094. Editors William J. Connell and Stanislao G. Pugliese, as well as a num...

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Tarantella, a genre of southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals, performed across the Italian diaspora, even adapted for New Age spiritual practices. The boom in popularity has diversified tarantella in practice while setting it within a host of new, unexpected contexts. Incoronata I...

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Quelli che da lontano sembrano mosche sono quelli che, a occhio nudo, si faticano a intravedere: come i poeti italiani contemporanei, se considerati all’interno dell’immenso paesaggio della poesia mondiale. Ma le proporzioni non ingannino, dal momento che per studiare le loro poesie non bastano le 2.116 pagine dell’antologia Those Who from Afar Loo...

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