In 1911, the Dillingham Commission, consisting of bipartisan, U.S. House of Representatives and Senate members, produced a forty-one-volume report on immigration in the Unites States warning that the influx from Southern (overwhelmingly Italians) and Eastern Europe threatened America’s way of life and should be drastically reduced. The Commission’s conclusions provided the bases for immigration quota…
Like a modern entrepreneur, fifteenth-century explorer, Christopher Columbus, raised capital for an expedition to discover a western passage to Asia. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 placed control of the land routes to the lucrative Asian spice trade in Ottoman-Turk hands. Columbus first proposed the Atlantic Ocean route to Joao II of Portugal in 1485.…
The World is a City. Joe Giordano’s literary thriller Appointment With ISIL balances considerations of genre (characterization, pacing, mood) with a subtle but definite awareness of literary form and function. Much like his debut novel Birds of Passage, Giordano shows a penchant for sharp scenes, concise dialogue that has the bite of a Dick…
Q1: Can you give us some background on your career as a writer? How you got started, how long you’ve been at it, a bit about your publishing history? A1: One of the positions I held before I became a writer, was to run a business in Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa…
Q: Birds of Passage has as its setting both New York and the area around Naples, specifically a small village Capodimonte. We know New York is close to your heart, but why Capodimonte? What made you choose this village as the Italian setting? What can you tell us about Capodimonte? A: My father came from…
After Italy’s 1870 consolidation, il Risorgimento, the great wave of Italian immigration began. Italy had formed a common government, but not a nation. As one statesman put it, “Italy has been made. Now we must make Italians.” The south of Italy, the Mezzogiorno, spoke different languages, had been dominated for centuries by foreign powers, and…
The December issue of Fra Noi, the journal of record for the Italian-American Community of Chicagoland for more than three decades featured Birds of Passage, an Italian Immigrant Coming of Age Story on page 106. “What turns the gentle mean and the mean brutal? The thirst for wealth? The demand for respect? Vying for a…
I’ll be reading and signing Appointment with ISIL on Saturday, December 9th, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble in the Hill Country Galleria – Bee Cave, TX, along with Lake Travis Author Group: Christy Esmahan, Pat Dunlap Evans, Cate Lawley, and Lara Reznik. Hope to see you there. Barnes & Noble…
Sunday, November 5th from 2.00 – 3.00 pm, I’ll be signing copies of Appointment with ISIL, an Anthony Provati Thriller at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, The Writers’ League of Texas Booth 320-321 (Exhibitor Tent 3, near Colorado and 12th St.)
The Italian America Magazine, Order Sons & Daughters of Italy in America in their Fall Issue, p. 13, featured Birds of Passage, an Italian Immigrant Coming of Age Story, and Appointment with ISIL, an Anthony Provati Thriller
