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IS YOUR NOVEL CARNEVALE ABOUT YOU? [by Peter Fortunato]
"Is your novel about you?" That question has become very familiar, and partly it has to do with the use of first person narration. Besides that, anybody who knows I’m a poet as well…
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That Old Black Magic [music Harold Arlen, lyrics Johnny Mercer]
This version of the song — as sung by Louis Prima and Keely Smith — was my introduction to the Arlen/Mercer standard. I liked the collaboration of Arlen and Mercer so much that in…
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A NOVEL IS ANOTHER KIND OF WRITING [by Peter Fortunato]
So I wrote a novel, and it’s just been published: Carnevale. The name means “carnival” and it refers to a gala masquerade party held at the family run, Italian American restaurant of the protagonist’s…
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Peter Fortunato, Guest Author November 18-22
This week we welcome Peter Fortunato as our guest author. Peter grew up in Wappingers Falls and Poughkeepsie, New York at a family run restaurant and resort much like the one in his novel,…
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Long Live Noir — and No R [by David Lehman]
A few years ago I wrote a piece for The American Scholar employing the Raymond Roussel method of composition that obliges the author to commence with one word or phrase and end with a…
