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<em>If you can't have an espresso and grappa with Mario Fumarola sometime, then you'd better read this book. He's someone worth listening to, not because he knows it all, but because he knew it when: from sometime after the invention of electricity and before computers. But likeTony, Mario's narrator, says, the world never really changes, no matter how hard we try. It just stays human, and it's Mario's version of humanity that should make you think, laugh, and if not cry, then certainly sigh, at all this storyteller has witnessed. </em> Dr. Fred Gardaphe&#769;, Distinguished Professor of John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. Queen's College, CUNY Author of <em>Moustache Pete is Dead.</em></p> <em>The Editor's Wastebasket is a journey of prose through American's urban landscape of the 20th century. His life encompasses the modern American experience: son of Italian immigrants, a childhood enmeshed in poverty and cultural intolerance, yet, at the same time, ful lling among the close bonds made among family members and friends. Mario's writing ows effortlessly from one experience to another, like a river of epiphanies that de ne the human experience. I am the editor of PRIMO magazine, and I enthusiastically recommend your reading The Editor's Wastebasket. It is an exceptional book that brings poetry to the hardscrabble lives of our immigrant ancestors and their children, our fathers and mothers, who became the Greatest Generation. </em>Truby Chiaviello, Editor, PRIMO Magazine. </p> <em>The Editor's Wastebasket is a collage of memories and meditations (some sad, some sweet) of the past (the Italian-American enclave of East Utica, NY), the present (old age in Pennsylvania), and thoughts of his kids in the world of the new technologies. Taken together, they are consistently charming and touching.</em> Dr. Eugene P. Nassar, Emeritus Professor of Utica College. Founder of Ethnic Heritage Studies Center, Utica College. </p>

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