"Marcantoniana" in Hardcover

 

“Marcantoniana:Items from the Life and Times of the Marvelous Vito Marcantonio,” is now available in hardcover. As the author, I am excited about how cool it looks and feels. It is the nonfiction companion to my novel about the radical congressman from East Harlem, “The Goodfather,” which is now available on Audible. 

This represents a second edition of the 40-essay collection. I tightened up the graphics and made some textual improvements. Among the titles included are: “Bread of the Poor;” “Vito Marcantonio and the Art of Spaghetti Making;” “Fiorello LaGuardia and the Social Democratic City;” “Annette Rubinstein on the Harlem Renaissance;” “Literature in the Red Decade;” “The Italian American Table: Food, Family and Community in New York City,” and book reviews such as those on the poetry of Gil Fagiani and Maria Lisella.

It has been a while since I was engaged with either of these texts, which I think truly complement each other; the nonfiction book adding body to events in the novel that a dramatic structure didn't permit. My enthusiasm for “Marc” has not waned, rather the contrary. His career was absolutely breathless with activity. If you know someone with an interest in civil rights, urbanism, Puerto Rican history, Italian American life and culture, the American labor movement, immigration, New York City, Prohibition, the Great Depression, the American Left, the House of Representatives or Spaghetti, either of these books would make a purposeful Christmas Gift.
In Solidarity.

Stephen Siciliano