Author, Amore: The Story of Italian American Song and Stolen Figs: Other Adventures in Calabria Director @Cocciainstitute Former Editor @PublishersWkly
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Joined May 2009
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had a great talk with @hereandnowrobin !
thanks @MarkRotella @cocciainstitute @montclairstateu on how @Giants @tommydevito007 s "#TommyCutlets" #Italian #handgesture "ma che fie" brought so much pride, but also memories of discrimination.
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Excited to have this easy in the New York Times.
The improbable rise of the Giants QB Tommy DeVito shone a spotlight on an old Italian hand gesture — “one that’s rarely employed in triumph,” argues @MarkRotella. “Yet in DeVito’s (literal) hands, it became something joyous.”
Read: nyti.ms/4aPpedd
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Republicans kept wanting to juxtapose the KBJ hearings to the one for alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh. So let's do that. Because in the space between you'll find the story of racism and misogyny in America.
My latest in @thenation
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"The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was officially founded almost a century ago, on December 30, 1922. Putin wants to celebrate this anniversary with great fanfare in a few months. The attack on Ukraine owes nothing to chance." Constantin Sigov, here: bit.ly/34Ol7Rk
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Lest we forget, here's Rebecca Solnit to remind us how thoroughly and crony-istically the Trump admin was bound up w Russia & how emphatically Fiona Hill spelled out Russian aggression in 2019 hearings theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Big congratulations to my friend @parul_sehgal
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Thanks so much for the kind words about this. I'm looking forward to committing some criticism over at the New Yorker.
Some @newyorker writer news: @parul_sehgal @chaykak @SilverJacket and Luke Mogelson. Here's the memo to staff.
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I'm verklempt! My very first acquisition is hitting the shelves (and virtual shelves) today. The perfect read-aloud, laugh-out-loud story for our times, with the cleverest art that's perfectly polished (yet wild at heart). Thank you @klaasics for entrusting us with this gem!
Hats off to THE KING'S GOLDEN BEARD on your #bookbirthday #pubday! Congrats to @klaasics on this "clever, biting fable..." Explore the book here: geni.us/AmgqiJ #kidlit #picturebooks #illustration
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Former NBCC board member @MarkRotella reviewed Rich Cohen’s "Pee Wees" for @nytimesbooks: nytimes.com/2021/01/12/books…
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My latest: a Daily Comment, in @NewYorker, about President Biden's Catholic faith and how he might draw on it - and on Pope Francis's example - as he leads the country newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
Great piece by @LauraRuberto
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Two days of rain, an uptick in COVID-19 cases, shortening days (and daylight savings time approaching): it feels like the long warm New York summer of coronavirus-recovery-in-place is coming to an end bit.ly/2SO7gRu
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Italian American anti-fascist history
In honor of #ItalianAmericanHeritageMonth, we highlight the premiere #ItalianAmerican #antiFascist newspaper of the 1930s+40s, Il Mondo, located at 80 4th Av #SouthofUnionSquare. It called out fascist sympathizers in America+fought for a democratic Italy: villagepreservation.org/2020…
Thrilled about this next chapter of my life
.@MarkRotella joins CHSS as new director of Coccia Institute. An internationally recognized writer on the Italian American experience, Rotella brings a strong & inclusive vision for continuing the Institute’s reputation as a center of engagement & learning bit.ly/3fvQ4t0