SHORT STORIES, ARTICLES
& BOOK REVIEWS
by Mark Spano
(For future book reviews and other publications, see Upcoming Events.)
FICTION
• A Feast of Narrative 3: An Anthology of Short Stories by Italian American Writers:
“Peckerwoods & Altar Boys”
• A Feast of Narrative 2: An Anthology of Short Stories by Italian American Writers:
“The Presence of the Dead”
• Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal, pages 62-64:
• Ovunque Siamo – New Italian-American Writing:
• Niveous, page 25:
• Chaleur Magazine:
• Long Island Literary Journal:
• Ovunque Siamo – New Italian-American Writing
Excerpts from Kidding The Moon
NONFICTION
Times of Sicily:
Three installments from Sicily: Land of Love and Strife, A Filmmakers Journey (formerly The Sicilians)
BOOK REVIEWS by Mark Spano
- Italy to the North End: Photographs, 1972–1982 by Anthony V. Riccio
- The Hunger Saint by Olivia Kate Cerrone
- Birds of Sicily – Poems by Michelle Reale
- The King of Love and Other Fairy Tales – a selection of Giuseppe Pitre’s Sicilian collected fairy tales
- My Three Sicilies: Stories, Poems, and Histories by Joseph A. Amato
- The Color Inside a Melon by John Domini. Plus: Mark interviews the author.
- Lampedusa by Steven Price
- Towers of Aging by Joseph A. Amato
- Understanding Italian Opera by Tim Carter
- Freud’s Haberdashery Habit & other stories by Mike Fiorito
- Count Four by Keith Kopka
- The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History by Jamie Mackay
- She Seduced Me by Mark Tedesco
- Ghosts of the Belle Epoche: The History of the Grand Hotel et des Palmes, Palermo by Andrew and Suzanne Edwards
- Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster by Karen Tintori
- That Undeniable Longing: My Road to and from the Priesthood by Mark Tedesco
- Polermo, City of Kings: The Heart of Sicily by Jeremy Dummett
- Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition by Diane De Prima
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