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By Maurita Cardone Il gusto per la conversazione è cosa italica, si sa. E se a quel chiacchierare in stile italiano si aggiunge l'arte americana della "lecture" e un tocco di cultura, il risultato è Le Conversazioni, edizione 2014.   Un festival che ormai da nove anni porta sul Golfo di Napoli il meglio della letteratura anglosassone e, dal...

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"Italian food is Italian because it's all based on our mamas. Their whole lives were dedicated to feeding their families. That was their heart and soul," says Valencia Gionti Davis, president of the Ladies Italian-American Civic League.   As the 25th Memphis Italian Festival arrives this week, there is no better reminder of Italian heritage...

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We tune up engines and hack computers to improve their performances. What if we tuned up a book? Altering its structure and content, magical things may happen: volumes with movable parts, pages offering cinematic experiences, images appearing with a blow, non-linear structures to predict the future, pop-up magic shows...   "Magic Books" is a...

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The common question people ask me during these months of book presentations, signings, and book talks of Baltimore's Little Italy is: "How many books did you sell?" And my standard answer is that the sales don't matter. I'm not paying attention to the numbers ... I'm more interested in the reactions.   It is much more meaningful how the bo...

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Emigrazione e integrazione sono temi attuali. Oggi più che mai. Ed è giusto allora, soffermarsi a riflettere, studiare e analizzare temi legati alla tolleranza, all'accoglienza, al multiculturalismo e alla convivenza.   Specie alla luce dei fatti, visto che sono più di quattro milioni i cittadini iscritti all'Anagrafe degli Italiani Resident...

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September 10 (Wednesday) 5:30 pmExhibition Opening, Strangers in a Strange Land: Italian-Language American BooksThis exhibition of more than 150 Italian-language books, pamphlets, magazines, posters and sheet music reflects the vibrant culture of Italians in America who continued to live in their native language, from the 1880s to 1944. Exhibition...

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The Italian cultural institute presents "Anorexia. The Real Causes: Blood Types and Trauma," a lecture about Dr. Bracco's book, "Anorexia. The Real Causes," in conversation with author and journalist Dario Voltolini, on Thursday, April 9th at 6p.m.   The publication concentrates on leading-edge innovative solutions for the understanding and...

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You are cordially invited to attend a special program at the Italian American Museum this Friday evening, September 4th. Professor Gaetano Cipolla will present "The Poetry of Giovanni Meli", volume XIV of the successful series "Pueti d'Arba Sicula/Poets of Arba Sicula."   The goal of the series is to present the best poetry written in Sicili...

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Frank Salvatore, dopo "L'ardua strada dalla schiavitù a Barak Obama" ha scritto un novo libro intitolato "MY AMERICA" e lo consegna alla regione Molise. Il testo è scolastico ed è stato adottato nelle scuole degli Stati Uniti.   Michele Petraroia si impegna affinché il tomo venga adottato anche nelle scuole Molisane per consolidare un legame...

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By Luisa del Giudice   "Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development is one of the most exciting collections of essays I have read in a long time. It does so much more than explore the fascinating history of Rodia's unique creation; this volume truly captures the rich, variegated, diverse, and transcontinental human drama sur...

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