Books

Joseph L Cacibauda, a second-generation Sicilian American, is an elementary school teacher who was born and lived in the New Orleans area. After Laughing Comes Crying is an historical novel that focuses on Sicilian immigrants in Louisiana at the beginning …

You’ve heard about those books that people call page turners or books that readers hoped would never end. This is one of those that you want to put down, that you want to end, but for the right reason. It …

The word that comes to mind when reading Gillan’s two most recent books of poems is prolific. After nineteen books, including the two under review and the co-editor of four anthologies, she has established herself as an unassailable voice in …

This is a novel that is laced with the bitterness and sweetness that characterizes Sicilian history. It’s an historical novel that finds a place between Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard and Dacia Maraini’s more recent The Silent Duchess. Anthony …

Abbiamo incontrato e intervistato l’ex presidente della Re-gione Campania Antonio Bassolino. “Le Dolomiti di Napoli”, ed. Marsilio ottobre 2013, è il titolo del suo quarto libro, giunto in pochi mesi alle seconda edizione.   Nel testo Bassolino fa un viaggio …

In his self-effacing Forward to Of Jewish Race, Renzo Modiano asks why anyone would be interested in yet another book about the Holocaust in the context of the plethora of publications that have already been written, from the diaries of …

Prestigioso volume dedicato all’opera di uno dei più grandi maestri dell’architettura mondiale. “Renzo Piano” (Milano, Electa, 2014), di Francesco Dal Co, storico e critico dell’architettura e attento studioso della produzione dell’architetto genovese.   Il libro è l’ultimo di una fortunata …

Maria Mazziotti Gillan has won numerous prizes for her poetry and has read throughout the U.S., including her ancestral village in Southern Italy. She has won the 2011 Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award and the 2008 American book …

As its title indicates, Esty: A Novel/Memoir is a fusion of literary genres, both memoir and fiction. The core of the work is a memoir that DiStasi’s mother, Margaret Weisz DiStasi, wrote about her youth in both Hungry and the …

Simone Cinotto has a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Genoa. He teaches U.S. and Italian history, as well as food history, at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy, where he also directs the Masters Program …