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 by Anthony Buccino


"If only this kitchen could talk!" Aunt Connie said when I visited her in April. She was 83 and still living in the same house where she was born.

Who Is Brother, Uncle Bim?


Andrew Pagliaro died April 22, last week. He was 93 years old. I never got to talk to him before he died. I have a couple of letters he sent me a couple of years ago.

At Spatola's Home For Funerals


Harry was four years old when his dad died in a coal mine cave-in in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Harry was the youngest of eight children, the oldest was barely a teenager. That was February 1929.

Coal Miner's Kids' Christmas


In the Florida room of Uncle Bim's home in Florida, I finally asked him how he came to be called "Bim." After all, my research had shown that his real name was Donato which he had Americanized to Daniel. But everybody called him "Uncle Bim" for 80 years. Why?

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BOOKS

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Italian Women In Black Dresses

Things My Mother Told Me

All That Lies Between Us

Taking Back My Name

Maria Mazziotti Gillan Greatest Hits 1972-2002

Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Essays on Her Works, a book edited by Sean Thomas Dougherty,

Italian American Writers On New Jersey

Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American

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Tom Perrotta

Little Children

Election

The Wishbones

Joe College

Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies

Buccino: On Perrotta

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A Family of Sicilians - Stories & Poems by Salvatore Buttaci

Promising the Moon - poems by Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci

Poems by Salvatore Buttaci

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Una Storia Segreta - Lawrence DiStasi

Finding Italian Roots by John Philip Colletta

They Came In Ships by John P. Colletta

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In The Garden of Papa Santuzzu by Tony Ardizzone

Taking It Home - Stories from the Neighborhood by Tony Ardizzone

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Don't Tell Mama Regina Barreca

Andiamo, Weasel! - Rose Marie Grant

Moustache Pete Is Dead! - Fred L. Gardaphe

Dances with Luigi - Paul Paolicelli

Beyond The Godfather - Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience editors: A. Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini

La Storia, Five Centuries of the Italian-American Experience
by Jerre Mangione & Ben Morreale

The Humble and the Heroic Wartime Italian Americans by Salvatore LaGumina

Memoirs of Lt. Camillo Viglino, Italian Air Force 1915-1916

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Italian Americans in World War II  - Peter L. Belmonte

Blood of My Blood - Richard Gambino

Mount Allegro - Jerry Mangione

Growing Up Italian In God's Country - Patricia Costa Viglucci

Heritage Italian-American Style - Leon J. Radomile

The Garlic in the Melting Pot - Lewis M. Elia

ROSA The Life of an Italian Immigrant by Marie Hall Ets

Unto The Sons - Gay Talese

Ciao, America - Beppe Severgnini

Italian Stories - stories by Joseph Papaleo

Were You Always an Italian? by Maria Laurino

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Sometimes I Dream In Italian - Rita Ciresi

The Last Cannoli - Camille Cusumano

Recipes My Nonna Taught Me - by Francena

Growing Up Italian by Linda Brandi Cateura

Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

NEWARK'S Little Italy - The Vanished First Ward - Michael Immerso

The Big Hunger by John Fante

The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo

The Last Cannoli - Camille Cusumano

The Altar Boy Chronicles by Tony Pasquarello

With Heart and Soul - Calgary's Italian Community by Antonella Fanella

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CHECK THESE OUT

The Other Side; Six American Women & The Lure Of Italy by Helen Barolini

Queen Calafia’s Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel, by Kenneth Scambray

Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers. Edited by Joanna Clapps Herman and Lee Gutkind

A Buon 'Ntennitore: Proverbs of Naples by Antonio and Leonardo

Bobbi and Uncle Miquel by Michael F. Capobianco

The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany by Paul Salsini

Giovanna’s 86 Circles And Other Stories by Paola Corso

Losing Consciousness to a Lost Art by Mary Cappello

Italian Mothers, Grandmothers and Godmothers - Winston Publishing

At The Copa  by Marisa Labozzetta

Coyotes in Broad Daylight by Robert Yehling

The Italian-American Immigrant Theatre of New York City: 1746-1899 by Dr. Emelise Aleandri

Ignazio Silone’s Memoir from a Swiss Prison translated by Stanislao G. Pugliese

The Contadino by Frank J. Agnello

Thompson Street by Ralph Cutro

Blood Autumn, Autunno di Sangue by Daniela Gioseffi

Furnished Rooms by Emanuel Carnevali

My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini's Son, by Romano Mussolini

Holiday Love and Madness - Scenes From My Italian Childhood by Gerard Joseph Arduino

The Stonecutter's Aria by Carol Faenzi

An Ordinary Life by Charles J. Alaimo

Buried Caesars and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing by Robert Viscusi

Low Italian by George Guida


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