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Tre Sguardi Su Pinocchio è la nuova scrittura scenica di tre episodi salienti de Le Avventure di Pinocchio di Collodi. Pensato per il Teatro, e ora disponibile in formato cartaceo ed e-book, con le preziose illustrazioni di Francesca Cerritelli, Tre Sguardi Su Pinocchio è fresco e piacevole da leggere. Si tratta di una storia meravigliosa, quella d...

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Jeffrey J. Antonucci, a longtime resident of Wayne, was interviewed about his newly published book, Deep Within a Blueberry Sky in a segment of the “Conversations with Joan” radio show which aired on AM970 The Answer on December 30. The interview can be heard at https://omny.fm/shows/conversations-with-joan/conversations-with-joan-12-30-18. Jeff’s...

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North American Travel Journalists Association, one of the most prestigious organizations in the travel industry, has recognized the “best of the best” of travel writers, photographers and broadcast journalists in its annual competition for 2018 and selected La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z by author C...

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The Wilkes-Barre Barnes & Noble, 421 Arena Hub Plaza, will host a local author book signing at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2. Local author Stephanie Longo will be available to sign copies of her history books, “Italians of Lackawanna County” Boasting one of the nation’s largest and most diverse Italian American populations, Lackawanna County joins old an...

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People in Naples have a spectacularly blasé attitude towards Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend series. Known as the Neapolitan Chronicles to the rest of the world, the four books recount the decades long friendship of two young Neapolitan women as their town recovers from war, grapples with the camorra, suffers municipal neglect, political strif...

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Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. The term is commonly used as a synonym for the historical novel. An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the period depicted. Based upon thi...

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When: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 From 6:30 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: IIC Los Angeles A talk with journalist and author Enrico Deaglio, conducted by Prof. Mark Axelrod (Chapman University). Deaglio will also be giving a talk at Chapman University on February 11 as part of its Literary Arts Reading Series.

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International notorious Italian author Umberto Eco once said: “we live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.” Several scientific data establish that reading helps learning skills, mind growth, and developing imagination by fostering our creative side of the brain. In Italy we are surrounded by literal pieces of h...

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You don’t have to be Italian to enjoy the four books written by local author Mario Fumarola. His heartwarming stories are those everyone can enjoy. Easy and colorful reads, Fumarola’s stories are told through the eyes of young Tony, Fumarola’s alter ego, during the 40’s and 50’s and are set in the neighborhood of Italian-American immigrants in Utic...

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“Only in America”: an invigorating memoir of a self-made chef. “Only in America” is the creation of published author Emilia Zecchino, an accomplished chef, renowned founder of specialty frozen food company Holiday Foods, and war bride from Italy who first settled in Flushing, New York, in 1947. Dorothy Ross, commissioner of Hallandale city beach, w...

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