“My Italy Is Made of Women”: An Interview with Adriana Trigiani

Cover of The View from Lake Como, Adriana Trigiani’s new novel, out July 8 from Dutton

Rullo di Tamburri: il Calandra Institute, headquarter della cultura italoamericana

Anthony Tamburri on the Calandra Institute, Headquarters of Italian-American Culture

An interview with the Dean of the City University of New York’s research institute, as part of an inquiry into the Italian heritage that Americans love

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Remembering Robert Viscusi: Erudition, Largesse, Beneficence

byAnthony Julian Tamburri

Professor and Executive Officer for the Wolfe Institute for Humanities at Brooklyn College, Viscusi wrote many books and we shall surely remember especially his award-winning novel, "Astoria" (1994), and his critical magnum opus, "Buried Caesars and Other Secrets of Italian...

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In Memory of Louise DeSalvo, a Ground-breaking Scholar and Biographer

byAnthony Julian Tamburri

Louise DeSalvo has succeeded in furrowing new paths for the Italian-American woman writer who, through oppressive, historical restrictions, has remained silent much too long.

Nuovo Mondo

Goodbye to Poet Gil Fagiani

byStephen Siciliano

Fagiani was a model for the late-career artist. His work was enjoying consistent publication by a variety of literary houses. In 2015, Guernica Press published “Logos,” an in-depth, insider's look at the harrowing world of drug addiction and rehabilitation. In the pipeline...