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Non-fiction Tales from the Front
featuring
Maria Teresa Cometto with Glauco Maggi
and Suzanne Cope
2nd Thursday, October 8, 2026
LIVE 6-8PM EST; Open Mic begins at 6PM; admission is free
Maria Teresa Cometto, journalist and author, was born in Novara, Italy. In 2000 she moved to NYC with her family. She is a contributor to the leading Italian daily Corriere della Sera, and co-author with Glauco Maggi of (re)Covering America (Bordighera Press, 2026). Other books she wrote: Emma and the Angel of Central Park (Bordighera Press, 2023), and Brothers of the Mountains (KDP, 2020). Cometto was awarded the title Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana for promoting Italian culture in the U.S. in 2017. @mtcometto
Suzanne Cope is a scholar and narrative journalist, and is the author of Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis (Dutton Penguin, 2025) and Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement (Audiobook, Penguin; print Chicago Review Press, 2021).Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, BBC, Washington Post, Aeon, and others. She is a professor at New York University and lives in Brooklyn. www.suzannecope.com
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