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Casa Italia presented its 22nd annual IA Literati authors exposition on May 23. The event was chaired by Anna Weiss and emceed by Frank Di Piero. Lou Bruno, author of “The Love of San Demetrio,” talked about his transformative journey to his ancestral home to research his novel. Former Loyola University professor Carla Simonini shared insights from her scholarly dissertation “Traveling Italy, Writing America” and Oak Park’s Mike Rosanova read from his autobiography, “Big Brains and Broken Hearts.” Leah Eskin, longtime food writer for the Chicago Tribune, spoke about her debut novel, “Like Wafers in Honey.” It follows the parallel …

This year’s IA Literati seminar was held as a virtual gathering on June 13. The event was different from any of the previous 16 instalments, according to Professor Dominic Candeloro, curator of the Florence Roselli library in the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia. “Authors could not gather in person due to COVID-19 so we were presented with the challenge of meeting electronically over Zoom. I must say that we all missed gathering together but we were able to expand the scope of the event beyond the Chicago area to across the country and to Italy, with more than 100 …

IA Literati 2018 — Casa Italia’s 14th annual celebration of local Italian-American authors — ran from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 12 in the Florentine Room of the Italian Cultural Center in Stone Park. Book sales and signings, raffles, and a meet-and-greet with the authors took place at 9:30 a.m. Authors will read from their works starting at 10 a.m. Several new authors such as Frank Cesario, Anne Marie Cina, Lee Colsant and Steve Decker took part in the event along with veteran literati Arthur Cola, Dr. Bruno Cortis, Kathy DeNicolo, Tony Romano and Adam Sedia. The moderator …