The Calandra Institute invites some of the most prominent, cutting-edge, Italian American creative writers to debut and read from works of recent fiction, poetry, and memoir.
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PAST EVENTS
April 2023
Anthony Marra reads from Mercury Pictures Presents: A Novel (Hogarth, 2022)
In his third novel Anthony Marra recounts a story of ...
12 Apr
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
March 2023
Annie Rachele Lanzillotto reads from Whaddyacall the Wind? (Bordighera Press, 2022)
The ebullient writer and performance artist Annie Lanzillotto presents her ...
13 Mar
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
December 2022
Writers Read: Jonathan Galassi reads from School Days: A Novel
Jonathan Galassi reads from School Days: A Novel (Other Press, ...
05 Dec
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
October 2022
Writers Read: John D’Emilio reads from Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties
John D’Emilio reads from Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: ...
20 Oct
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
September 2022
Writers Read: Kossi Komla-Ebri reads from EmbarRACEments: Daily Embarrassments in Black and White . . . and Color and Home
Kossi Komla-Ebri reads from EmbarRACEments: Daily Embarrassments in Black and ...
15 Sep
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
May 2022
Writers Read: Gianna Patriarca EVENT CANCELED
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Gianna Patriarca reads from This Way ...
19 May
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Writers Read: Christopher Sorrentino Reads from Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son’s Memoir
The death of Christopher Sorrentino’s mother in 2017 marked the ...
10 May
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
April 2022
Writers Read: Claudia Durastanti Reads from Strangers I Know
Strangers I Know is the fourth novel by Claudia Durastanti ...
04 Apr
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
February 2020
Joanne Mattera Reads from Vita: A Memoir: Growing up Italian, Coming Out, and Making a Life in Art
In Vita: A Memoir, Joanne Mattera recounts her childhood in ...
20 Feb
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
November 2019
Juliet Grames Reads from The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (Ecco, 2019)
Juliet Grames’s novel tells the story of Stella Fortuna—beautiful and ...
06 Nov
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
September 2019
Three Bordighera Press Writers— Kathy Curto, Maria Terrone, and Rita Esposito Watson—Read from Their Works
Kathy Curto’s memoir Not for Nothing: Glimpses ...
24 Sep
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
April 2019
B.G. Firmani reads from Time’s a Thief (Doubleday, 2017)
In mid-1980s New York City, Francesca “Chess” Varani strikes up ...
02 Apr
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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