The Art of Reading Italian Americana: Italian American Culture in Review

Literary Nonfiction. THE ART OF READING ITALIAN AMERICANA is a celebration of the “Art of Reading,” in which the reader and writer engage in dialogue. This book covers the ten-year period since Fred Gardaphé’s DAGOES READ, from 1995-2005, and includes most of the reviews he published in Fra Noi during that period, along with a few longer reviews and review essays published elsewhere, to provide an in-depth view of the production of Italian American writers. This book, then, offers an answer to the question raised so many years ago in the New York Times: “Where are the Italian American Writers?”