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By Simone Moretti   Daniele Bondi, one of the most awarded Italian authors, has just published "Crimes in Little Italy" a page-turning thriller set in NYC. «This is a tightly-constructed page-turner – declares William E. Klein, a professor of Philosophy at New YorkUniversity" – which makes very interesting psychological and literary moves wh...

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To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country.   Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 bri...

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Dennis Palumbo is a thriller writer and psychotherapist in private practice. He's the author of the non-fiction book, Writing from the Inside Out and a collection of mystery stories, From Crime to Crime. He has also been writing the Daniel Rinaldi mystery series.   He was formerly a Hollywood screenwriter, whose credits include the film My F...

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When: Friday, July 11, 2014 — 6 to 11 p.m.Where: Hawthorne Hotel — 18 Washington Sq., Salem, MALocal sports agent and former Salem High football star Sean Stellato has written his first book, "No Backing Down." Set in 1994, the book deals with the Salem teachers strike and how Salem High head football coach Ken Perrone defied an order to cease and...

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On the occasion of the 14th annual Italian Language Week in the World, The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago Andrea Raos is pleased to invite you to the following lecture: Brief History of a Type Face: From Venice in 1470 to Our Own Time by Paul F. Gehl, the George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books, and Cu...

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Quella di Sante Fortunato Vanni, arrivato dalla Sicilia a New York nel 1884 per aprire una libreria, con annessa stamperia, è una storia d'altri tempi.   L'immigrazione italiana era al culmine, New York era fatta di gang, avventurieri, mendicanti, uomini d'affari con e senza scrupoli, e di tanti uomini e donne che, come Vanni, avevano un sog...

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APRIL 16, 2015 (06:00 PM) Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011Book Presentation - Machiavelli: A Portrait (Harvard University Press, 2015) by Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University   "Machiavellian"—used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless—is never m...

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di Elisa Simonelli   Ho scelto di scrivere Il paese dove tutto è possibile, in inglese The country where anything is possible, perché spinta dalle difficoltà che io stessa ho incontrato nel corso della mia carriera. Faccio parte di quei trentenni italiani che si sono scontrati con un mondo del lavoro totalmente diverso da quello che ci era s...

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Vilma Sozio Gallo, an American expatriate settled in Italy, has completed her new book "Pasta, Popes, and Passion": a warm and appealing read that offers readers the chance to share in the authors' lifelong joys and loves through unusual first hand experiences and anecdotes that the usual tourist and lover of Italy rarely experience. Vilma has m...

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Bordighera Press celebrates 20 years of publishing VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Italiana, three book series (VIA Folios, Crossings, Saggistica), and the Bordighera Poetry Prize. Bordighera Press publishes literature and poetry by and about Italian and Italian/American authors. Many of our titles are consistently utilized in university courses...

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