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…
Born in Denver, Colorado, in 1909, of an Italian immigrant father and an Italian-American…
– Après Arthur Rimbaud, pace John Thompson As I sluiced wild, homicidal channels, The…
When I first moved out, Nonna Ida bought me a tablecloth with a blue-grey patchwork…
The car sped along New York Interstate 87, winding its way through the Adirondack…
Red tinted wings soaring over whitened wintry steppes Flocks of cardinals murmur…
It’s 6:30 a.m. on a chilly fall day and I’m lying in bed. I hear the garage door…
The resurrection of Dario Bellezza has been more than half a century in the making. The…
On the 10th of June, 1940, the same day Italy entered the war and invaded southern…
Clara and Cosimo finally reached Via Plebiscito number 80, the intersecting street name…
It’s 1964, Montreal. And a photograph shows me taking my first steps in my…