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A Madison (CT) native has written a book to inspire small acts of kindness that can make big difference. Kate West has brought her Italian-American holiday traditions and cherished childhood memories with her beloved Nona to the page. Her book “LeBefana and the Christmas Star” follows an enchanting character from ancient Italian folklore that child...

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Un ponte di musica – Itinerari dell’Opera italiana in America (a cura di Claudio Orazi) –  Zecchini Editore 2020, pp. 262 €20; in italiano con testo a fronte inglese) è un bel libro che potrebbe essere, se si è ancora in tempo, una strenna per l’Epifania tanto è elegante e ben illustrato ma che può essere in qualsiasi momento un libro di grande int...

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Joseph DeSalvo Jr., a New Orleans native who set aside corporate law to open Faulkner House Books in the French Quarter and make it a literary destination, died Tuesday at Touro Infirmary. He was 88. His life as a bookseller followed a career that included stints in New York, Houston and New Orleans as an attorney at Exxon, Tenneco and Good Hope Re...

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A new non-fiction book has just been published about a young boy working at his Father’s coal mines in the USA, and about the immigration of the boy’s ancestors from Italy 50 years earlier. Louis Ronald Scatena is the author of "ANTHRACITE BOOT CAMP", and it's a true story about his childhood working under the direction of his hard-working Father,...

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Recently published by the late John DiMaggio, Sarge, was a long time in the making. “He wrote it over many years, both while he was working and after he had retired and was living in Las Vegas,” says the author’s daughter, Debra DiMaggio, who was the primary force behind getting Sarge into print (and who also was kind enough to send me a review cop...

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Dear Friends, We at the Casa Italia Library are very proud to announce the new updated republication of Reconstructing Italians in Chicago: Thirty Authors in Search of Roots and Branches." The 2011 edition sold out the original 1000 printed copy. Please order a copy or two and show your support for the work we do at the Casa Italia Library. Thanks...

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Vittoria repetto described herself as “a native downtown guinea dyke butch who grew up in the Greenwich Village…;” yet she defied labels; anyone who knew her saw a big personality in every sense. The daughter of immigrant Italian parents; from Liguria on her father’s side and Lombardy on her mother’s side,  Italian American writers, particularly wo...

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Lucy Ann Vallera Luhan, a Southern California restaurateur, shares insights on how to bring about quality time around the table and a healthier lifestyle by recounting her experiences and memories as a first-generation Italian-American. In “Convivio through the decades” (published by Xlibris UK), Luhan compares the food culture in the two countries...

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This summer, Elena Iacono, a second generation Italian Canadian, devoted her time to a secret project: turning her late grandmother's Italian recipes into a philanthropic cookbook. At first, Elena cooked as a way to grieve her grandmother and delight her husband with Southern Italian meals, but soon she realized the dishes could be something more....

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When: Thu, 12/17/2020 at 5:00pm - What: The Perfect Fascist, A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy (2020, Harvard University Press), Victoria de Grazia, author, Columbia University in conversation with Stefano Albertini, NYU For this episode of Tutti a Casa! author Victoria de Grazia presents her latest book The Perfect Fascist:...

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