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There's no letting up for Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The dean of San Francisco booksellers, who co-founded City Lights Bookstore in 1953 and helped launch the Beat movement, published a book of poetry, "Time of Useful Consciousness," in 2012. When he's not at City Lights, Ferlinghetti is at work on his paintings at his art studio in Hunters Point....

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When Rizzoli closed its doors at 31 W. 57th St. in April, the elegant bookstore promised it would be back. That's what everyone says.   But given the challenging economics of brick-and-mortar bookstores, I assumed Rizzoli was toast and assigned it a choice niche in the columbarium of my memory. It's a space becoming increasingly clutter...

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Book Presentation of: Writing Fashion in Early-Modern italy From Sprezzatura to Satire (Ashgate, 2014) by Eugenia Paulicelli. The author in conversation with: Virginia Cox, NYU and Bella Mirabella, NYU Location: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 24 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011   The firs...

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by Federico De Cesare Viola Are we sure we really understand Italian food? Do we know where it comes from, how it is produced and consumed, and how much traditions are changing over time? Pasta with tomato sauce, for example, is considered a symbol of Made in Italy, but it was only in the 19th century that the sauce was combined for the first...

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ROMA – Si svolgerà al Centro Studi Americani a Roma (via Caetani 32) il prossimo 6 novembre alle ore 17 l'incontro intitolato "Una prigionia diversa: i militari italiani negli Stati Uniti 1942-46", iniziativa organizzata in occasione della presentazione del libro "I prigionieri italiani negli Stati Uniti" di Flavio Giovanni Conti. Sono previsti gl...

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by Will Budiaman   There are so many Italian cookbooks that get released every year, adding to the already formidable collections in bookstores, that it can be hard to figure out which ones are worthwhile (and worth the money, too). So why does Franny's: Simple. Seasonal. Italian. (Artisan Books, $35) matter?   Francine Stephens and A...

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The Friends of the Libraries, Kona will host a free, family Read Aloud Program from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Kailua-Kona Public Library.   The program will have an Italian theme. Authors Laura Guluzzy and Lisa Corker will present their writings, "Dinner of the Seven Fishes" and "Carmela," exploring Italian traditions and the immigran...

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Congratulations to NIAF member George Custodi on the publication of his new memoir "Three Witnesses."   The nonfiction book is a collection of Custodi's family journals, describing three different perspectives of Italians struggling to survive World War II. Custodi personally translated the journals into English for the publication, which is...

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A highly anticipated lecture is coming to the Jewish Community Center (3200 California Street) on November 3rd at 7:00PM.   The event is a Germanacos Lecture and will show off an all-star cast which includes: Anne Germanacos, who runs the Germanacos Foundation; Ann Goldstein, editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi; Robert Hass, Poet Laur...

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by Bobby Tanzilo   We love to think of the Green Bay Packers as America's team (suck it, Dallas), but it becomes clearer and clearer that the Pack may actually be the world's team when it comes to American football. In spring, I saw a guy clad in green and gold atop the Great Wall of China and, now, a friend in Italy, Fausto Batella, ha...

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