Don't tell mama!: the Penguin book of Italian American writing

Introduction: Why Don't Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing?

Explanatory Notes and Caveats to the Introduction / Hugo Barreca

From Under the Rose: A Confession / Flavia Alaya and Carol Bonomo Albright

"Introduction to Rocchietti's Lorenzo and Oonalaska"

Selections, Lorenzo and Oonalaska (1835) / Elvira Di Fabio

"Sinatra's 'Associations' with the Mob" / George Anastasia

"Holy Cards" / Tony Ardizzone

From Wish You Well / David Baldacci

"Buried Alive by Language"

From Umbertina

"Classic and Good" / Helen Barolini

"My Grandmother, A Chicken, and Death" / Regina Barreca

"My Life in Funeral Parlors" / Joy Behar

From Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers / Mary Jo Bona

From Miss Giardino / Dorothy Bryant

"Story of My Weight" / Anne Calcagno

"Careless Love: How Women Get to Hell" / Phyllis Capello

From "Macaronis" / Nancy Caronia

"Grandmother" / Grace Cavalieri

From A Bridge of Leaves / Diana Cavallo

"Ossi Dei Morti"

"Small Acts" / Thomas Centolella

"True or False"

"Useless Knowledge"

"The Evil Eye"

"In Place of a Curse"

"On Flunking a Nice Boy out of School"

"Statement" / John Ciardi

"Lifelines" / Rita Ciresi

"Ellis Island" / Robert Corrente

"Youthful Religious Experiences" / Gregory Corso

"Poverty of Language"

"Infidel" / Peter Covino

From Family Honor: An American Life / George Cuomo

"The First Night of the Wake" / Joseph Cuomo

From Underworld / Don DeLillo

From Leaven of the Pharisees: The Dark Side of Italian-American Life / Lina del Tinto Demarsky

"I study Italian"

"I stash treasures" / Mary Russo Demetrick

From Paper Fish / Tina De Rosa

From Vertigo: A Memoir

From Breathless / Louise DeSalvo

From "Ars Longa, Vita brevis?" / Carole DeSanti

From Tender Warriors / Rachel Guido deVries

From Christ in Concrete / Pietro di Donato

"The Depot"

"Sabbioneta to Parma" / W. S. Di Piero

From Recollections of My Life as a Woman / Diane di Prima

From The Brotherhood of the Grape

"Hail Mary"

From Wait Until Spring, Bandini / John Fante

"The Old Italians Dying" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

From The Family of Max Desir / Robert Ferro

From A Perfect Time for Butterflies / Camille Lavieri Forman

From Tree of Dark Reflection / Rocco Fumento

From Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans / Richard Gambino

From The Italian-American Writer: An Essay and an Annotated Checklist / Fred Gardaphe

"The Tidal Wave"

"Mafioso"

"Tailors" / Sandra M. Gilbert

"Opening the Door: 19th Street, Paterson"

"Secrets" / Maria Mazziotti Gillan

"Cleared Away"

"Money"

"Planting a Sequoia" / Dana Gioia

"For Grandma Lucia La Rosa, 'Light the Rose'"

"American Sonnets for My Father"

"Woman with Tongue Sculpted in Cheek" / Daniela Gioseffi

"Anniversary I" / Arturo Giovannitti

"Litania for My Mother's Hands" / Edvige Giunta

From "MANAYUNK: Growing Up in Philadelphia During and After the War" / John Glavin

"Godfather II: Of Families and families"

From An Accidental Autobiography / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

"Who Will Mary You Now?" / Josephine Gattuso Hendin

"The Discourse of un'Propria Paparone" / Joanna Clapps Herman

From The Paper Dragon

From The Blackboard Jungle

From "The Kiss" / Evan Hunter

From Ulysses in Traction / Albert Innaurato

"After Victory" / Marisa Labozetta

"Food and Fatalism" / Wally Lamb

From The Grand Gennaro / Garibaldi M. Lapolla

"Wear It in Good Health"

"First Cousins" / Salvatore La Puma

From "Words" / Maria Laurino and Jay Leno

From Leading with my Chin / Bill Zehme

From "Sitdown at the Heartland Hotel" / Frank Lentricchia

From Mount Allegro / Jerre Mangione and Jerre Mangione

From La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience / Ben Morreale

"Your Children Are Your Children, but Your Wife Is Just a Good Cigar" / Mary Ann Mannino

"Duet"

"Show & Tell"

"The Old Men Are Dying" / Paul Mariani

"The Lion's Head"

"Friend" / Carole Maso

From "The Virgin's Nose" (or Picking Up a Piece of the Pieta) / Christine Palamidessi Moore

From The Loss of the Miraculous / Ben Morreale

From We Ride a White Donkey

From Via Madison Avenue! / George Panetta

From Dances with Luigi: A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians / Paul Paolicelli

"The Shylock's Wedding" / Joseph Papaleo

"Grandmother in Heaven"

"1913"

"The Miner's Wake"

"Ida Parini (1890-1976)"

From The Apprentice Lover / Jay Parini

"Someday I Will Read 'Dover Beach'"

"Perfect Love" / Gianna Patriarca

From "The Movies" / Sadie Penzato

"Canticle from the Book of Bob"

"Lost Innocence of the Potato Givers"

"Long Time Too Long" / Lucia Perillo

From The Godfather

From The Fortunate Pilgrim / Mario Puzo

"Dedicated to an Old Friend Whose Kindness I Shall Never Forget" / Ross Quiello

From Benedetta in Guysterland: A Liquid Novel / Giose Rimanelli

From Everything and a Kite / Ray Romano

From The Quick / Agnes Rossi

"Video Blues" / Mary Jo Salter

From "Ravioli and Rage" / Mary Saracino

From Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City / Jeanne Schinto

"How to Marry an Italian-American Man" / Chris Mellie Sherman

"The Veteran" / Felix Stefanile

From Unto the Sons / Gay Talese

From Like Lesser Gods / Mari Tomasi

"Failed Fathers" / Lewis Turco

"The Widows"

"Song of the Castrato" / Anthony Valerio and L. D. Ventura

From Misfits and Remnants / S. Shevitch

From Astoria / Robert Viscusi

From A Cup of the Sun.