The Italian American Writers Association Presents

its 28th Anniversary Reading Series

SATURDAY, JULY 13 @ NYPL Mulberry St. 

features 

Award-Winning Authors

Marisa Labozzetta and

Richard Vetere

 

All Readings begin with an Open Mic, followed by two features and book sales and signings.

WHERE: Mulberry Street Public Library

10 Jersey Street, New York, NY

Corner of Mulberry and Prince Streets,

near Lafayette Street, one block south of East Houston Street

Wheelchair accessible

WHEN: 2-4 PM

 

Three rules of IAWA: Read each other; Write or be Written; Buy our Books; 

and new rule, Review each other!

 

Marisa Labozzetta is the author of the novels, Sometimes It Snows in America and Stay With Me, Lella; the collection of short stories, At the Copa; and her latest collection of linked stories, Thieves Never Steal in the Rain. She is a two-time Eric Hoffer Award winner, a John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. A Brooklyn native, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

 

Richard Vetere’s most recent project is the award-winning documentary Where Are We Now?  The Italian American Today, which he wrote, directed and co-produced.   His award-winning short film, The Kids Menu based on his play starred Vincent Pastore.  Vetere has published 25 plays including Caravaggio, Gangster Apparel, Machiavelli, Lady Macbeth and Her Lover.  He is currently developing a TV series based on his novel Baroque (Bordighera Press.)

His newest novel The White Envelope is pending publication, has already been awarded Honorable Mention in the Amazin’ Whodunit Mystery Writers Series.  His novel, The Third Miracle for which he co-wrote the screenplay adaptation starring Ed Harris, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola was released by Sony Picture Classics.  Other novels include The Writers Afterlife and Champagne and Cocaine.

Vetere has published three poetry collections: The Other Colors in a Snow Storm, Memories of Human Hands and A Dream of Angels. RichardVetereauthor.com

 

Upcoming Events:

July 27, 28

IAWA at New York City Poetry Festival

Governor’s Island

Hosted by Peter Marra

 

August

No Readings

 

September 14 

National Translation Month

Romance is in the Air and on Our Lips

Claudia Serea 

and 

Bordighera Book Boost: Sara Fruner

 

October 12 

Bordighera Book Boost: Marisa Frasca, Wild Fennel and 

Francesco Paolo Tanzj from Molise, Italy

 

November 9 

Book Boost:

Barbara Crooker and Maria Mazziotti Gillan

 

December 14 

Zoe Trischka and TBA

NEW + NOTEWORTHY IAWA’s Boston Series

 @ I AM Books 189 North Street Boston, MA

Hosted by Authors, Julia Lisella and Jennifer Martelli

https://www.iambooksboston.com/calendar/