At the Naples marina the sun broiled humanity like chops on the grill. Leonardo and Anna were on the street at the edge of the crowd. Peasant men in brimmed caps and ill-fitting vests and women in white blouses and billowing ankle-length skirts held onto wide-eyed children and waited to be called for pre-board inspection.…
I’ll be signing and selling books at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
When: Sunday, November 6th from 4.00 – 4.45 PM
Where: Writer’s League of Texas booth, Tent 4, booths’ number 406 and 407 (across from Malvern Books)
Texas Book Festival website:
IAWA (Italian American Writers Association) New York presents: Award-winning Authors: Joe Giordano & Mark Ciabattari On ZOOM (free, register in advance) Plus, Open Mic (5 minutes to present your work. Sign onto Zoom before 6 PM to join the queue.) When: Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022 @ 6-8 PM ET. Doors “close” at 6:15! Admission is free; preregistration is required Preregister…
How long have you been writing and what got you started? When my wife Jane and I lived in Greece, I became fascinated with Greek history and decided to write an historical fiction account about the Persian Wars: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis. My prose was terrible. I needed to learn how to write. I enrolled…
Joe Giordano was born in Brooklyn. His father and grandparents immigrated to New York from Naples. He and his wife Jane now live in Texas. Joe’s stories have appeared in more than one hundred magazines including The Saturday Evening Post, and Shenandoah, and his short story collection, Stories and Places I Remember. His novels include, Birds of Passage, An…
Bob Sorrentino interviewed me for his Italian Genealogy website.
Fine the video here:
