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by Jennifer Levasseur The internationally bestselling Italian author known as Elena Ferrante – beloved and controversial – retains the ultimate freedom as a writer. Her publisher protects her identity, she doesn't globetrot to literary festivals, and the press has no fodder to probe her relationships or appearance. Her novels on their own merit –...

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di Cinzia Ficco Tre case editrici italiane, di quelle blasonate, l'hanno deluso e lui è andato in America. Ha fatto da sé ed ora è diventato "milionario".   Il tipo tosto questa volta è Guido Mattioni, giornalista nato ad Udine nel '52, con 37 anni di esperienza, che ha provato a far pubblicare il suo manoscritto in Italia, senza riuscirci....

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"A popular explanation is one that was offered by Rudolph Vecoli, a left-leaning historian, in 1968. In an article published in the Journal of Social History, Vecoli claimed that southern Italians were deeply anticlerical and thus had little interest in attending Masses and other priest-run services. Instead, the peasantry expressed its spiritualit...

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"It was hot and humid that July day in1917, and the neighborhood odors were floating along on top of the muggy air.... Big Gino and his friend Franzini were walking to the bank to deposit the cash Big Gino had from yesterday's ice wagon routes. They stepped off the curb at the corner to cross the street. "Bruno, the teamster driving the loaded bee...

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Thursday, April 16, 2015, 6pmJohn D. Calandra Italian American InstituteQueens College, CUNY - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor - New York, NY 10036 Aniella, Concetta, Giuseppina, and Maddelana are the quartet of immigrant women at the core of author and blogger Fran Claro's book The Macaroni's in the Basement (2014). This collection of s...

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di Maurita Cardone   Attraverso la storia di due famiglie molto diverse tra loro, il giornalista Alexander Stille racconta il '900 e un'America multiculturale. Nel suo ultimo libro The Force of Things. A Marriage in War and Peace (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), presentato ieri, 6 maggio, alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò della New York Un...

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Il poeta italo-americano Robert Viscusi e la sua monumentale opera "ellis island", che racconta cento anni di immigrazione dal vecchio continente verso l'America, saranno protagonisti venerdì 24 maggio del XII° Festival internazionale di Poesia Aggiornata "Licenze Poetiche", in corso fino a sabato a Macerata, nell'ambito del progetto Lost in Libray...

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Given the popularity of shows such as the "Real Housewives of New Jersey," growing up female and Italian or Sicilian has garnered plenty of attention and criticism over gender roles. Author Linda Rentschler discussed how she transitioned from advertising and TV production to become a novelist, as well as writing two of her popular books, "Just...

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Italy, post-World War II, June 4, 1947, Casanova Straffora-a rural village in the province of Pavia. A 7 year-old Angela Volpini meets Mother Mary for the first time while she is playing on the hill with her friends.   The beautiful Lady tells Angela that she is "coming to teach the way to be happy in this world." This documentary describes...

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Danny Aiello's memories race across the pages of his new book like the cops are in pursuit. The actor did a lot of running from the police growing up in Manhattan's West Side and the South Bronx, making money shining shoes, running numbers, shooting pool and even robbing safes.   "My father was rarely around," Aiello says. "So I was raised...

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