John Fante’s Full of Life, and the House of Un-American Activities Committee
Born in Denver, Colorado, in 1909, of an Italian immigrant father and an Italian-American…
Writings
Le Bateau en état d’ébriété (1870)
– Après Arthur Rimbaud, pace John Thompson As I sluiced wild, homicidal channels, The…
The Tablecloth
When I first moved out, Nonna Ida bought me a tablecloth with a blue-grey patchwork…
Will You Marry Me?
The car sped along New York Interstate 87, winding its way through the Adirondack…
Blades
Red tinted wings soaring over whitened wintry steppes Flocks of cardinals murmur…
Wine with Dinner
It’s 6:30 a.m. on a chilly fall day and I’m lying in bed. I hear the garage door…
Found in Translation: A New Collection Celebrates Italian Queer Poet Dario Bellezza
The resurrection of Dario Bellezza has been more than half a century in the making. The…
Adrift
On the 10th of June, 1940, the same day Italy entered the war and invaded southern…
The Courtyard
Clara and Cosimo finally reached Via Plebiscito number 80, the intersecting street name…
Casa
It’s 1964, Montreal. And a photograph shows me taking my first steps in my…