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When: Thursday, December 6th (6:00pm–7:30pm) - Where: Sahara West Library, 9600 W Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada 89117 - Free and open to the public. For more information, please call 702.507.3631. Come hear Karen Haid, international award-winning author of Calabria: The Other Italy, share the beauties and wonders of Calabria, a fascinating Itali...

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IAWA in Boston at I AM Books (189 NORTH STREET, BOSTON MA) Saturday December 8, 2018; 6pm to 8pm. Open mic signup 5:45! Featuring Lisa DeSiro and Camilla Trinchieri. Lisa DeSiro is the author of Labor (Nixes Mate, 2018) and Grief Dreams (White Knuckle Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies, and have been set to mu...

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Love, Italy, and alternative-history fiction that travels down a what-if path to approach a truth: these have long been preoccupations of Christopher Castellani. His first three novels, the Maddalena trilogy (A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love), were published by Algonquin over a 10-year period beginning in 2...

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Thursday December 6, 7:00 pm. Swinging Sixties Senior Center, 211 Ainslie Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. Admission: free; open to the public. Contact: 212-642-2094. From the Jersey shore to Las Vegas to Hollywood, and all the dance halls in between, this multilayered story is vivid with historical color and steeped in the popular music that se...

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Even to the eyes of a 6-year-old, Frank Rizzo, the mayor of Philadelphia, was a presence. He stepped out of his car on Independence Mall one day in 1976, just in front of me, my sister, and a few Midwestern cousins. He looked down at us, extended his hand toward the heavens, and said “Hello, kids!” The Midwestern cousins had no idea who he was; I f...

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When: Thu, January 31, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Where: Italian Cultural & Community Center, 1101 Milford St, Houston, TX 77006 Join us for a special presentation on "Fellini's Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini", a recently released book authored by Professor Alessandra Carrera from the University of Hous...

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Thursday December 6, 6 pm, Hamilton 501. Columbia University - Department of Italian, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027. Emilio Cocco (Università degli studi di Teramo, Italy-American University of Rome). Respondent: Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University). Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University). In this talk—based on my book “...

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When Chi Chi Donatelli spots a boy drowning in the ocean, the young woman doesn’t hesitate to rush into the water to rescue him. The only person unimpressed with her heroics is Chi Chi herself. It’s something anyone would do, she explains, shrugging off praise from her Jersey Shore pals. Chi Chi’s lifeguarding skills are put to use only once in Adr...

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Deep Within a Blueberry Sky, the first novel written by Jeffrey J. Antonucci of Wayne, will be launched with a book signing at Watchung Booksellers, 54 Fairfield Street, Montclair, on December 5 at 7:00 p.m. There will be an awe-inspiring presentation by the author, after which he will autograph books for attendees and advance online purchasers. Th...

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Monday, December 3, 2018, 6pm EDT. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY. 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036. Searching for Subversives: The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America - Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When the United States entered World War II,...

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