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The publication of Judith Harris’s latest book is very timely as real estate brokers are noting a surge of interest for spacious residences in small towns outside of major cities around the world. Why live in a cramped apartment in Rome, New York or London when you can enjoy a quieter, healthier and less expensive lifestyle with more space for fami...

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Giancarlo DiTrapano, a defiantly independent publisher whose Tyrant Books, long run out of his cramped apartment in Hell’s Kitchen, issued volumes that big publishing houses wouldn’t touch and took chances on untested young writers, died on March 30 at a hotel in Manhattan. He was 47. His sister Lia DiTrapano Fairless confirmed the death but did no...

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Tuesday, April 27th at 6:30pm EST: AN EVENING WITH ROBERT BRUZIO, WRITER & ACTOR OF BOTTOM OF THE NINTH - Usher in the baseball season and join the Columbus Citizens Foundation (CCF) for a discussion on NOIAFT member Robert Bruzio’s film about a once-aspiring baseball player who returns to his Bronx neighborhood after serving 17 years in prison for...

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In another half century or so, some library will claim the papers of novelist Dario Diofebi toward the close of a distinguished career. Among the earliest documents will be some sort of outline or flow-chart for his debut, “Paradise, Nevada,” and the researcher who finds it will think they’ve stumbled into a three-ring circus. The term “carnivalesq...

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Italian-American literature of the second half of the 20th century described a world divided between generations, often very different from one another. Between two Fatherlands, between opposite perceptions and views of what Italy and America were. It described the American Dream, the eldorado and the fight against prejudice, a desire for integrati...

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When Claudio Gatti published an investigation into Elena Ferrante’s identity, a few years ago, he raised an outcry both in Italy and abroad. He had pried into the author’s privacy, violated her right to remain anonymous. It was unfair, it was irrelevant, we didn’t want to know. Didn’t we? Yes and no. There was one conclusion that mattered in Gatti’...

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Congratulations to NIAF Member Carlo Buccellato for his new book To Every Page a Turning: One’s Life Journey. His book begins when a man is clearing old files out from his garage and finds a folder containing an old manuscript he wrote 20 years prior as part of his recovery therapy. The discovery unleashes a thoughtful reflection on his life’s jour...

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In Italia tutti conoscono Gianni Rodari, uno dei più amati autori di testi per l’infanzia. La penna dei bambini che acque a Omegna, una tranquilla cittadina nell’Italia del nord e che visse la sua adolescenza a Garivate, vicino Milano. Nel 1940 quando l’Italia entrò in guerra. Rodari, che era di salute fragile fu esonerato dal servizio militare e s...

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Athena Visits the Marina is the first children’s book written by Gino Cafarelli, a multitalented Italian-American actor and filmmaker from Queens. He was inspired to write the book by his daughter Athena, who was born with a hearing loss and now shares her name with the book’s title character and protagonist. The book tells the story of Athena, a l...

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In a memoir set in the last half century of transformative cultural change, a memory-keeper shares personal voyages of discovery beyond traditional boundaries of gender and culture—an engaging and wide-ranging coverage of how the times affected the author and the country that offers guidance today. Moments in Flight: A Memoir: Brings the immigrant...

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