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Early in Christopher Castellani's new novel, "All This Talk of Love," Frankie Grasso wonders whether he and his family are "at the end of something." Frankie is a 30-ish graduate student in English literature, still a long way from the end of (for one thing) his dissertation. An answer begins to take shape when his sister, an affluent stay-at-home...

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Dr. Rosemary Serra, a leading research sociologist from the University of Trieste in Italy, has come to New York as a visiting research scholar at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, City University of New York, to investigate the status of Italian American identity within the greater New York area.   The tool...

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For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have b...

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On Saturday, September 13 at 2 pm, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will present a very special guest speaker. Nancy Petralia, along with her husband John, is author of "Not in a Tuscan Villa," which is currently a bestseller in the travel book section on Amazon.com.   The book tells the real-life story of this middle-aged American couple who wen...

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  La storia di Sabato “Simon” Rodia è certamente una delle più affascinanti e allo stesso tempo meno conosciute delle tante imprese d’immigrazione italiana negli Stati Uniti.   Le sue “Watts Towers”, le tre torri e complesso scultoreo costruito a Los Angeles nell'arco di trent'anni (dal 1921 al 1954),  rappresentano un'opera a...

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There is a devastating exchange in The Story of a New Name, the second of three—soon to be four—books in Elena Ferrante's masterful Naples novels, in which Lila, one of the two main characters, runs into her former schoolteacher, Maestra Oliviero, on the street.   To the teacher's dismay, Lila, now in her late teens, did not continue her edu...

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Author Grace Mattioli has been chosen as one of '50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading'. The award was the result of a public voting process and her appearance on The Authors Show in which she discussed her latest realistic fiction novel, 'Discovery of an Eagle'.   The new book delves deeply into life issues but at the same time offers witt...

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By Kristin J. Bemder   Two stolen Italian books dating to the 17th century that were discovered in the San Francisco Bay Area and many other plundered ancient artifacts will be returned to their country of origin, federal officials say.   The books, "Stirpium Historiae" and "Rariorm Plantarum Historia Anno 1601," were taken from Italy...

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C'è Calabria, tanta Calabria anche qui in America. La racconta in un suo libro l'on. Giovanni Nucera, Segretario Questore del Consiglio regionale della Calabria. L'occasione è venuta da una missione istituzionale, come capo delegazione alle celebrazioni del Columbus Day del 2011. Da quella esperienza è nato il volume "Reggio NewYork- andataritorno...

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In July 2014, a new association was founded with the aim of protecting the interests, rights, and intellectual work of many fellow Italians who are in the movie industry: the Writers Guild Italia.   An easy name for a complex task that has remained unsolved for years. Screenwriter and WGI spokesperson David Bellini has introduced himself, t...

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