Nicola Orichuia

Together with his business partner Jim Pinzino, Nicola is the founder of I AM Books, which was born in 2015 in the North End, Boston’s Little Italy. He moved from Rome, Italy, to the United States in 2008. He is also the creator of Idea Boston, a celebration of Italian and Italian American culture.


Picture this: a small, independent bookstore focusing on Italian and Italian American literature launching an Italian-inspired festival of books, authors and culture. As strange as that may sound, it’s what I AM Books is doing on Nov. 2-3, 2018, when it will launch the first annual IDEA Boston festival at the Dante Alighieri Cultural Center in Camb...