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The New Jersey Hall of Fame (NJHOF) announced Tuesday its 18 inductees for 2024 and Ocean City’s Gay Talese is one of them. According to a news release, Talese, 92, an author and journalist, was selected in the category of “Arts & Letters.” Inductees are chosen for their accomplishments in six categories, including Education & Science and Enterpris...

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Arturo’s Island (L’Isola di Arturo) is a book written by Elsa Morante and published in 1957. Elsa Morante (1912 – 1985) began her collaboration with different newspaper and magazines quite early. From the beginning, her work was characterized by the strong presence of the fantasy that the author was able to represent and instill in her books. From...

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Louis Trubiano's long-sought-after retirement project started years ago with his maternal grandfather, Luigi Pica, who came here from Italy in 1914, worked at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy his whole adult life and was extremely proud of his American citizenship, granted in 1930. "He was very stoic, a solid, hard-working guy," Trubiano said. Pic...

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Even before I opened "Dolci!: American Baking with an Italian Accent," my husband was all in on this new cookbook. He was listing off recipes in an enthusiastic voice usually reserved for reading car magazines. From desserts like Mocha Orange Whoopie Pies to cocktails like the Amaro Root Beer Float, to the Aperol Spritz Cake that combines both, he...

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Kazabo Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of Valeria Corciolani’s Pentimento Mori on July 16th, 2024. Corciolani is an Italian publishing phenomenon. Her books have over 62000 reviews on Amazon.it and have been made into award winning films. Pentimento Mori (originally published as Con l’arte e con l’inganno in 2021) is the first of...

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Seemingly overnight, Elena Ferrante — or rather, the novelist writing as Elena Ferrante — found worldwide acclaim. Her novels were everywhere: You couldn’t swing a tote bag without spotting one of her pastel-hued paperbacks on the subway, at the beach, in the airport. The four novels that make up the Neapolitan quartet rocketed her to fame. Beginni...

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In the institutional setting of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, a socio-cultural talk compared the old and new waves of Italian immigration to America, unveiling the challenges and achievements of generations of emigrants. The event was inspired by the presentation of the book "Recipes and Memories of Grandpa – A Mediterranean Lifestyle," a work t...

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The history of Italians in America began more than 500 years ago with a Genoese sailor who bumped into uncharted land. Within 35 years, three other explorers, all of Italian heritage, would chart land for England, Spain, Portugal, and France. From their explorations, a new world map was formed and the new continent beckoned a wide dispersal and int...

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Some of Italy’s most famous sweets originate from Sicily: cannoli, ciambella cake (a citrusy breakfast bundt made with olive oil), and torrone (a nougat confection), to name a few. The island south of the mainland, just west of the boot’s toe in the Mediterranean, has a rich history with Arabic, Spanish, and Neapolitan influences, and as with many...

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Left Bank Books invites the public to a free talk and book signing by writer and university professor Anna Monardo on Tuesday, July 9, at 6:30 pm. Her recently released memoir, After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage, tells the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Itali...

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