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Sagra del Libro Book Fair Kicks off IAWA's 25th Anniversary in Little Italy, NYC

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The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) kicked off its 25th anniversary with the Sagra del Libro book fair in an historic collaboration with the Order of the Sons of...

Sagra del Libro: The Italian American Book Festival Open to ALL WRITERS Friday, February 26, 2016 from 6-10 PM

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This event is dedicated to our recently departed Board member and friend, Emelise Aleandri who initiated the Sagra del Libro in 2012 when it took place at Fordham University. This...

The Mayor “Of the Streets”, Between Past and Present

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Two months of intense organizational efforts from i-Italy between Naples and New York, a great collaboration with the Consulate General and the other institutions of Sistema...

Telling Naples to the World

Ottorino Cappelli

Gennaro Matino is launching a major cultural exchange project that he has been working on for years. Evocatively named “Naples in the World,” it will provide an innovative...

Everything Italians Know About Their Food

Bianca Soria

A book about the foods of Italy, and about how food brings people together. It is also a book that tries to teach Americans the Italian approach to food: “In America we always...

Why Does Adele Sarno Matter?

Katherine D. LaGuardia

Ms. Sarno is the embodiment of the soul of New York. She is part of our heritage as a city of immigrants. Yet she is facing eviction by her landlord, the Italian American Museum,...

Littler Italy

George De Stefano

An Italian American organization moves to evict an 85-year-old woman who is one of the neighborhood's few remaining residents of Italian origins.

An Italian Meal with the Cristoforo and Amerigo's Menu

Natasha Lardera

Meet Italian actors Francesco Meola and Danilo Ottaviani and their The Cristoforo & Amerigo's Menu, a collection of poems, songs, comic scenes, both in English and in Italian....

Via Del Popolo: San Gennaro’s Miracle Brings a Piazza to Mulberry Street

Francesca Giuliani

An alternative version of the traditional San Gennaro street fair, "Via Del Popolo" will take place from September 13 to 23 on Mulberry Street between Houston and Prince. The...

Seeing Cities Change: Shameless Promotion of My Books Part I

Jerry Krase

Seeing Cities Change is one of two of my recently published books that deal in large part with Italy and Italian America.

Thirty Authors in Search of Roots and Branches.

Dominic Pacyga*

A review of the book "Reconstructing Italians in Chicago," edited by professors Dominic Candeloro and Fred L. Gardaphè.

The Miracle of San Gennaro Lives in New York

Peter Esposito

Little Italy, Mahnattan. Bill Russo talks of the San Gennaro Blood Drive, an original initiative sponsored by the American Red Cross, on September 18th, 2011, at the Old St....

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