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2002-2003 Academic Year Program “Writers
Read” Series
A new series
featuring Italian American and Italian writers, and authors on Italian and
Italian American subjects reading from their works. Thursday,
September 26, 2002: Nicholas Montemarano on A Fine Place.
“[Montemarano]
has produced a striking novel whose compositional principle is silence. This is a book all Italian Americans
can benefit from reading, not for what it tells them about the Bensonhurst
crime but for what it tells them about why Italian America has never come to
terms with that horrifying event.”
– Robert Viscusi Tuesday,
November 19, 2002: Anthony Giardina on Recent History. "Graceful ... [Giardina] manages to handle an
enormous amount of emotional material with a light touch.... [Luca's]
struggle is urgent and real.
Giardina makes us care, in the end, what happens to our hero." – The New York Times Book Review Thursday,
March 27, 2003:Louisa Ermelino on The Black Madonna and
The
Sisters Mallone: Una Storia Di Famiglia
“An endearing portrayal
of working-class Italian-American women, their sons, their families, their
lives, their loves, and their dreams in New York’s Little Italy. Ermelino
writes with sensitivity and compassion and a signature earthy charm” – Louise DeSalvo on The Black
Madonna Wednesday,
May 21, 2003: James Sturz’s Sasso
“As this teasing, literate thriller gets
underway, a team of sunstruck foreign investigators … arrives in the hill
town of Mancanzano in rural southern Italy, where a gruesome mystery is
unfolding…. What haunts us after the mystery is solved is the novel’s potent
evocation of life in this sun-bleached living purgatory, passed over by time
and hope, and the voice of the narrator, a cultural anthropologist whose
detachment starts to crumble as he falls into the grip of Mancanzano’s fierce
enchantment.” –
Boston Globe “Verba volant, scripta manent” ******************** Readings begin at
6:30 PM – Calandra Institute, 25 West 43rd Street (between 5th
and 6th Avenues), 18th Floor, in Manhattan. Call (212) 642-2042 for further
information or visit www.qc.edu/calandra. Seating is limited. The Calandra Institute is a university
institute under the aegis of Queens College. [Return to the Academic & Cultural Programs page.] |
