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The Italian writer Elena Ferrante's gripping novels about the rich and complex lives of women — as mothers, daughters, wives, writers — have won her a devoted cult following.   After several years of growing critical favor, her readership reached new levels this fall with the release of "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay," the third volume...

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  WTI Magazine #26    2014 Apr, 18Author : James Vescovi      Translation by:   In a world filled with memoirs, Eat Now; Talk Later by James Vescovi is truly different. This memoir that doesn't focus on a radically dysfunctional family, but instead celebrates the breadth of family life: loyalty, struggle, humor, misunderstanding, and love.    

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Please join us in celebrating . . .- Reading, reception, and book signing of the 2013 Poetry Prize winner Joelle Biele's collection of poems, Broom, translated into Italian by Irene Marchegiani and Emanuele Pettener.- 25 years since Bordighera Press began publishing the journal, Voices in Italian Americana, followed by the VIA Folios series in 1993...

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By Kayla J. Marsh   As a child, Gloria Bucco remembers her father telling her stories about older relatives who left Italy to settle in the small town of Matawan, New Jersey.   "Stories are an important part of life, we tell them all the time and sometimes don't even know it," she said in an interview Aug. 17. "My father very much wan...

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By Sara Shepherd Megan Jones first saw a picture of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in a high school history textbook, but moved on after being told they wouldn't be on the test. As a sophomore at Indiana University, assigned to write about something in the university's rare book library, she came across the intriguing figures again. Thi...

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Andrea Righi, assistant professor in the French, Italian, and Arabic Department, has published a new book, titled "Italian Reactionary Thought and Critical Theory: An Inquiry into Savage Modernities." The book cover features a photograph titled "Infinity Room" by Scott Johnson, associate professor of art.   In the last decade or so, a wave o...

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Presentare il proprio libro tra i disegni di Andy Warhol di certo non capita a tutti. A Elena Attala Perazzini è successo. Siamo a New York, più precisamente alla AntonKern Gallery di Chelsea, il quartiere delle gallerie di arte contemporanea che contano.   Ed è qui che la "Segretaria dello scrittore" (tanto per citare il titolo di uno dei s...

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by Mauro Battocchi   Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a living legend. Meeting with him at Caffè Puccini in North Beach was a special moment. I grew up reading a lot of the Beat Generation. Ferlinghetti was at the epicenter of this literary and existential movement: as proprietor of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, he sold and published many...

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The choreographer Stephen Petronio does not like to go backward. He says that moving in reverse — say, on a train — makes him feel mentally disturbed and physically ill. Nevertheless, there is a lot of backward in his life these days.   At 58, he has written a memoir. A lovingly rendered account of an Italian-American childhood in suburban N...

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Join Michele Scicolone as she shares some traditional and contemporary Italian recipes for vegetarian and nearly vegetarian dishes from her latest book, The Italian Vegetables. The Italian Vegetables Cookbook is a collection of some of the tastiest vegetable, fruit, and nut recipes that she collected both here and while traveling in Italy. There ar...

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