Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò. 24 West 12th Street. New York, NY 10011 - November 5, 2015 - 06:00 PMItalian Mobilities. (2016, Routledge). Edited by Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Stephanie Malia Hom. The editors in conversation with: Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey; Amara Lakhous, NYU   The Italian nation-stat...

By Cookie Curci   This is not your grandma's Al Capone. No, you won't find that notorious image in this book. He's not the Al Capone we've seen in countless films, documentaries and TV programs, not the Al Capone (1899-1947) who ruled the Chicago underworld during the "Roaring Twenties" or masterminded the St. Valentine's Day massacre. No, t...

Joe Famularo, who grew up with his Italian-American family in New York when the Great Depression was in full swing, recounts his youth, and how his family's love for authentic Italian food helped them weather those difficult days.   The narrative of his book, Crazy for Italian Food, primarily occurs in Hell's Kitchen, on the far west side of...

Emanuele Pettener è nato a Venezia, ma vive negli Stati Uniti dal 2000 dove insegna lingua e letteratura italiana alla Florida Atlantic University. E non è un caso che il suo nuovo romanzo, "Arancio" (Meligrana, 2014), sia ambientato proprio in Florida. Un estratto del libro è disponibile qui...   Ne approfittiamo per discutiamo con l'autore...

The ethnic communities of Niagara Falls' glorious past are the subject of a new series of books produced by our Italian Research Group at the Lewiston Public Library. In 2014, we published the first history of Niagara Falls' Italians, "Buon Appetito; Niagara's early Italian-American culinary traditions."   We have continued with our Ita...

by Gwendolyn Richards   For me, Italian cuisine is intrinsically linked to family. It evokes a picture of several generations gathering around the table, passing platters of pasta and roasted meats as babies are bobbed on knees and the room is filled with laughter and conversation.   Note: I've never actually been invited to such a fa...

When: Friday, May 3, 2013 Where: Dante Alighieri Society — 41 Hampshire St., Cambridge MA [map] Please join architect and artist Adam Van Doren at the Dante Alighieri Society for an illustrated book presentation on Friday, May 3, 2013.

by Barbara Gigante Per tornare alle origini di un'interrogazione sulla cultura specificatamente italoamericana bisogna risalire al 1825. È Ugo Foscolo, insospettabilmente, a darne notizia e a formulare in un carteggio, per la prima volta, un pensiero esplicitamente rivolto a questa sottocategoria letteraria.   Fino al 1885 se ne perdono poi...

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...

  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.