Upcoming Events:

• Thursday, December 8, 2012 – 9am
  The Bill Newman Show
  WHMP - AM Radio
  whmp.com
  http://whmp.com/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=5592130

• Tuesday - January 31, 2012 - 7pm
  Bluestockings Bookstore
  172 Allen Street
  New York, NY 10002
  (212) 777-6028

Readings, Conferences, and Colloquia

• Panel Reader, American Italian Historical Assoc., Tampa, Fl., October, 2011.

• Winner of the Short Fiction Award, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, New Jersey, April 2010.

• Guest lecturer, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut, November, 2009.

• Feature Reader, Poets and Writers Piazza. Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, September 2009

• Reader of Norman Kotker’s works, Jewish Historical Society of Western Mass. With Anthony Giardina, Betsy Hartmann, Corinne Bliss, Joann Kobin, June 2009.

• Reader of Robert Nylen’s memoir, Guts: Combat, Hell-Raising, Cancer, Business Start-Ups, and Undying Love: One American Guy’s Reckless, Lucky Life. With Richarad Todd, Tracy Kidder, Barry Werth, and Joe Nocera. Broadside Books, Northampton, MA, June 2009.

• Feature Reader, John D. Calandra Institute, NYC, Writer Read Series, October 2008. (Reviewed by Michelina Zambella in Oggi.)

• Panel Participant, Italian American Experience, Smith College, Northampton, MA, March 2008.

• Panel Reader, Italian American Historical Assoc., Southern Connecticut State Univ., New Haven, CT, October 2008.

• Panel Reader, American Italian Historical Assoc., Denver, CO., November, 2007.

• Feature Reader, Cornelia Street Café, New York City, June 9, 2007.

• Feature Reader, Broadside Books, Northampton, MA  February, 2007.

• Feature Reader, Bluestockings Book Store, New York City, November, 2006.

• Feature Reader, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA 2003.

• Feature Reader, Barnes and Noble, Holyoke, MA, 2003.

• Panel Reader and Chair, American Italian Historical Assoc., Loyola University, Chicago, Il., 2002.

• Feature Reader, Staten Island College, CUNY, Staten Island, NY, 2001.

• Presentation, “Ancient History? Sicilians in Gianni Amelio’s Lamerica,” Italian American Historical Association, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2000.

• Feature Reader, Five-College Circolo Italiano, Amherst, MA  2000.

• Feature Reader, Barnes and Noble, New York City, May, 1999.

• Feature Reader, Beyond Words Bookstore, Northampton, MA, 1999.

• Panel Reader and Chair, Italian American Historical Assoc., Hunter College, NYC, 1998.

• Presentation, “The Selling of the Italian American Experience,” American Italian Historical Assoc., Pittsburgh, PA, 1996.

• Panel Reader, American Italian Historical Assoc., University of Massachsetts, Lowell, 1995.

• Panel Reader, American  Italian Historical Assoc., Chicago, IL 1994.

• Panel Reader, American Italian Historical Assoc., Saint. John’s University, Queens, NY, 1993.

• Presentation, “The Dilemma of the Italian American Writer,” Italian American Students Union, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  1993.

• Presentation, “The Dilemma of the Italian American Writer,” Five-College Circolo Italiano, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 1993.

•  Presentation, ”The Italian Americans,” (1993) “The Editing Process” (1992) “Italy and its Culture” (1991), Jackson Street School, Northampton, MA.