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My father died six months before I was born in 1919. He was in his 50s and suffered a heart attack on the stoop of his house in Yonkers, N.Y. Months after I was born, my mother was institutionalized for depression. My Aunt Emilie from France and her husband took me in, and we soon moved to France, near Strasbourg.   My first memory is b...

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by Matt Conti   I Am Books, the country's first Italian American bookstore, opened this week in Boston's North End at 189 North Street across from the Paul Revere House. Owner Nicola Orichuia and partner Jim Pinzino want the bookstore to serve as a cultural hub for locals and visitors interested in diving into the rich world of Italian...

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by Marscha Dubrow   Italian American stereotypes, from the mafia to "The Real Housewives of New Jersey", were debunked at the Library of Congress Oct. 30 by co-authors of an exquisite new book, "Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience from the Collections of the Library of Congress".   In a wa...

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About the author: Melania G. Mazzucco has written nine novels, including Vita (FSG, 2005), which was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize and named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. For Limbo, she was awarded the Premio Elsa Morante and the Premio Bottari Lattes Grinzane.   Her many other honors include receiving the Viaregg...

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"The Bridge" - the book award, curated by Casa delle Letterature of municipality of Rome in partnership with the American Initiative For Italian Culture (AIFIC), the American Embassy in Rome, NIAF (The National Italian American Foundation) in Washington, DC and Fuis (the Federation of Italian Writers) - was launched in Milan on Wedne...

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The Lt. Joseph Petrosino Lodge (OSIA), in collaboration with IAWA – The Italian American Writers Association, is hosting and launching a "Sagra Del Libro" (Italian-American Book Festival) on Friday, February 26, 2016 from 6 to 10 pmin the Lodge Hall at 113 Baxter Street in Manhattan's Little Italy. Admission is free to all.   All writers are...

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By Edie Crabtree   Former Harbor Day teacher and local author, Margo Sorenson has done it again. To celebrate the release of her new picture book, "Spaghetti Smiles," Sorenson paid a special visit to a group of lucky students at Andersen Elementary School this week. Although I am just a few years north of the target demographic, I was a...

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The success of the New York Tech community – which is the subject of our book – is studied abroad by entrepreneurs, investors, scholars, and policy makers. It happens especially in Italy, where there are a lot of brilliant young people, including great engineers from the best "Politecnici", who cannot find funding for their business ideas nor a reg...

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In un personalissimo testo, Martin Scorsese rievoca la New York e l'America della sua infanzia: feste, rituali e cibo in arrivo dal Sud Italia, il matrimonio dei genitori combinato per unire le famiglie provenienti dai paesini di Polizzi Generosa e Cimmina, la scelta/necessità del giovane Martin di varcare "il confine di Houston Street" per raccont...

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By Riccardo Giumelli È freschissimo di stampa, edito da pochissimi giorni. Si tratta di un testo che racconta l'italicità – e già da questo si capisce perché ne parliamo –, che traccia un percorso temporale dalle prime intuizioni di Piero Bassetti, nel 1995, fino alle rielaborazioni più evolute e recenti del 2013.   Il libro si chiama La re...

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