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After being spurned by his childhood sweetheart as a young man in Procida, Italy, Nico Dioguardi decides to abandon his life there and enter the U.S. through unknown relatives in Brooklyn. His past, however, haunts him in unexpected ways, forcing several return trips to his Procida and prompting complications that impact his family, who fall victim...

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C.S. Lewis once said, “No book is worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”  Lewis’ observation rang true for me while revisiting the Don Camillo books of Italian writer Giavannino Guareschi. I first read them at 13, but this rereading left me wondering what I got from...

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Nonna Maria, “one of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created” (Tess Gerritsen), sets out to clear her goddaughter's name and uncover the checkered past of an unidentifiable victim in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra. "Nonna Maria and the Case of the Stolen Necklace" will be available star...

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Among the usual suspects on Italy's bestseller lists this holiday season – mysteries, thrillers, romantic novels, pop science books – a curious exception jumped out: The new graphic novel from radical left-wing underground cartoonist Zerocalcare. Italy's fallen under the spell of this hilariously ironic, quirky and politically charged 39-year-old I...

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La Dolce Vita “U” Trivia Challenges make you feel like a participant on a TV game show. You “test your knowledge” while Carla reveals unexpected facts about Italian culture. So engaging and high-spirited, you almost won’t notice how much you’ve learned. Through this enlightening passeggiata back in time we will explore the genius and innovation of...

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Luca Cesari got his first taste for pasta as a child in the 1970s in his native Bologna when his grandmother lovingly served him two Italian specialties: tagliatelle alla bolognese and tortellini. Now, in adulthood, the food historian and writer has chronicled how a wide array of pasta dishes made the Italian food staple so influential around the w...

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When: February 2 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Where: SF Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA 94133 Everyone has a preconceived idea of who we are. In his talk, Lawrence Tartaglino presents a new, revealing look into the life and background of the Italian people. He uncovers, among other things, who truly invented the telephone, w...

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“The Lying Life of Adults,” the latest novel by the famously pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante, has been adapted — one might say inevitably — for the screen as a six-part Netflix series. It follows HBO’s lauded and ongoing “My Brilliant Friend,” based on Ferrante’s “Neapolitan” tetralogy, and three books turned into theatrical features, in...

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Deborah Russo, who earned her master’s degree in education from Penn State University with a Reading Specialist Certificate and taught thirty years in the public school system, has completed her new book “A Beauty Unbroken”: a fascinating story of one woman’s quest for a better life in America, and the sacrifices she is forced to make to achieve it...

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Many people reading this review will have already visited Italy, often many times. Leaving aside the romantic destinations to the south of Naples near the Amalfi coast, most such trips take place in the north of the country, Rome and above. This is a terrible injustice to the “boot” of Italy and Sicily which offer myriad delights of history, art, l...

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