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Saturday December 1 2018 from 18:00 to 19:30 EST. I Am Books, 189 North St, Boston, MA 02113. Tickets here. Eric Dregni is the author of 18 books including Never Trust a Thin Cook, Vikings in the Attic, In Cod We Trust, Midwest Marvels, Follies of Science, and Weird Minnesota. He is a professor of English, journalism and Italian at Concordia Univer...

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In 2011, HBO began a series based on a set of books whose legion of fans had exacting expectations. “Game of Thrones” required condensing a vast narrative, visualizing wonders like dragons’ flight and creating a world that spanned continents. HBO’s new series “My Brilliant Friend,” based on the wildly popular Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante, is...

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This past weekend, I Am Books, an independent Italian American bookstore in the North End of Boston, the city’s historic Italian immigrant neighborhood, hosted its first Idea festival, “an Italian-inspired festival of books, authors, and culture”, according to its website. I Am Books is the first bookstore Italian American bookstore in the US, open...

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When: Friday, November 30, 2018 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - What: Presentation of “I Believe in You” by Luca Badetti How can you believe in yourself and others? Dr. Luca Badetti explores this question in his book "I Believe in You," (New City Press, 2018). Grounded in stories from his life a...

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Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani (“Big Stone Gap,” “Lucia, Lucia” and “The Shoemaker’s Wife”) is coming to town. She will be on stage at North Kingstown High School, 150 Fairway Drive, on Sunday, Nov. 18 from 3-5 p.m. Trigiani’s latest novel is “Tony’s Wife.” The program is presented by Reading with Robin with Robin Kall. The event also feature...

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Friday November 9 from 18:00 to 19:30 EST. I Am Books, 189 North St, Boston, MA 02113. Augusto Ferraiuolo examines the many religious festivals in the Italian American community of Boston’s North End. In his book "Religious Festive Practices in the North End," Ferraiuolo uses interviews, participant observation, and visual data, to create a vivid p...

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Proud, dignified, charismatic, pragmatic: the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who passed away in 2006, was this and much more. A successful writer and renowned journalist, from a cultural point of view she was one of the most prominent women figures. Active feminist, famous for her love/ hate relationship with the dear departed, Pier Paolo Pasol...

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Across the Atlantic, far from their supposed site of conception, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels rank amongst the best-received Italian literary series authored by a woman—or rather, a pseudonymous author presumed to be female. The four-book series, centered on the impassioned friendship between two girls coming of age in an impoverished Naples,...

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Ho incontrato Adolph Caso per la prima volta all’International Book Show di New York, e mi ha colpito perché dava l’impressione di amare i libri più di qualsiasi altra cosa al mondo. Ho scoperto solo in seguito che non si interessava soltanto di pubblicazione, ma anche di scrittura, traduzione, insegnamento e sostegno per la comunità italo american...

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When: Monday, November 12, 2018 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL On the occasion of the Italian Cuisine Week in the World, November 12-18, 2018, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago is pleased to present the following two lectures: Mediterranean Diet: a Cultural Pattern which connects Environm...

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