Fiction. Art. Film. "I can think of no other writer who can better express the ineffable sense of being born into the working poor before moving through different genres of living—hired factory hand, engineer, professor, poet, then back to hired aca...
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Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. Translated from the Italian by Leanne Hoppe. "Poems that fall into the canon somewhere between personal and pastoral, that draw the reader to challenge her ideas about what creates a voice, how nature connects to our se...
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Poetry. Women's Studies. In WHAT MY FATHER TAUGHT ME, Maria Giura writes richly and candidly about growing up Italian-American Catholic from her earliest days as the daughter of immigrant parents and a workaholic father to her coming of age and onwa...
Poetry. Art. "In PACKS SMALL PLAYS BIG, Phyllis Capello gives us exquisite, finely-crafted lyrical poems, polished and many-faceted as the finest jewels. These poems contain a woman's voice crying out from tenement windows and city streets. They bot...
Poetry. A collection of sonnets by Lewis Turco.THE FOREWORD BLUESWesli Court said I should write a book,A bunch of blues—enough to fill a book,And he’d design the cover. I said, "Look,If you’ll write half of them, then I will chooseA ball-point pen,...
Literary Nonfiction. Music. Film. Gay Talese and Pete Hamill discuss the life and legacy of Frank Sinatra. "Like his hero, Jay Gatsby, Sinatra 'believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.' It was that longi...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Yearning for acceptance from her Italian-speaking mother-in-law, Bea Tusiani's stories offer a glimpse into the struggle of generations. From Bushwick, Brooklyn in the 1950's to her mother-in-law's kitchen in the Bronx, ...
Fiction. An emotionally captivating and masterfully linked story collection set in Morocco's gleaming imperial cities, twisting medinas, and remote Saharan outposts, THE ARAB'S OX was awarded the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction, ...
Literary Nonfiction. GARIBALDI M. LAPOLLA: A STUDY OF HIS NOVELS is the first book-length examination of this important Italian-American author's work.In their detailed and sensitive treatment of everyday life in early twentieth-century Italian Harl...
Literary Nonfiction. The third collection of Fred Gardaphé's Fra Noi book reviews (2006-2016) continues a lifelong journey into Italian American literature—"choosing the literary life has been a lifetime gamble that might not pay off financially, bu...
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. A collection of poems on our attempts to read, or by diagnostics' Greek roots, to distinguish and discern, our place and condition in time.
Poetry. Fiction. Art. A book of lyric essays and prose poems seeking truth through fragments and spectrums.
Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies. A close look into the lynchings of Italians in the United States and the political, social, and cultural fallout that led to the withdrawal of Italy's ambassadors from the US.
Fiction. THE HUNGER SAINT is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as "a well-crafted and affecting literary tale," this historical novella follows the journey of Ntoni, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily...