Introduction / Edited by Bill Tonelli
Oregon Avenue on a Good Day / W. S. Di Piero
Ten Little Italies of Indiana / Michael Martone
American Skin / Don De Grazia
Within the Lighted City / Lisa Lenzo
Cut of His Jib / Anthony Giardina
Age of Innocence / John Giorno
Fortunate Pilgrim / Mario Puzo
Johnny Critelli / Frank Lentricchia
Going Under / Steven Varni
For Desire / Kim Addonizio
Joe College / Tom Perrotta
In Six Short Lessons / Cris Mazza
Farther You Go / Richard Russo
Star Cafe / Mary Caponegro
Frank Sinatra / Anthony Valerio
Sometimes I Dream in Italian / Rita Ciresi
My Kind of Loving / Nick Tosches
Accidental Autobiography / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Coming of Fabrizze / Raymond DeCapite
Last Meal / Michael Paterniti
Cavadduzzo's of Cicero / Tony Ardizzone
Unto the Sons / Gay Talese
Our Fathers / J. T. Barbarese
Superstar / Victoria Gotti
Nice Tuesday / Pat Jordan
Northside at Seven / Lucia Perillo
Right Thing to Do / Josephine Gattuso Hendin
Sitting Pretty / Michael DeCapite
Outtake: Canticle from the Book of Bob / Lucia Perillo
Italian Way of Death / Camille Paglia
Planting a Sequoia / Dana Gioia
Crossing Back / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
Cheap Gold Flats / W. S. Di Piero
Brother's Keeper / Mike Lupica
Six Haikus / Nicholas A. Virgilio
Elegy, 1942 / Felix Stefanile
Ask the Dust / John Fante
Rumor of War / Philip Caputo
Wiseguy / Nicholas Pileggi
Italian Grocer / Rachel Guido DeVries
Cut Numbers / Nick Tosches
Somebody Up There Likes Me / Ralph Lombreglia
Christ in Concrete / Pietro DiDonato
Looking for Mary / Beverly Donofrio
Nothing to Confess / Mary Cappello
"Mildred, Is It Fun to Be a Cripple?" / Robert A. Orsi
Streets of Gold / Evan Hunter
Antonin Scalia / Joseph Tusiani
How I Learned to Speak Italian / Helen Barolini
Breaking and Entering / Fred Gardaphe
Growing Up Sicilian / Jerre Mangione
Hard Feelings / Ken Auletta
Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus / Robert Viscusi
Round Trip / John D'Agata
One Night in Television City / Paul Di Filippo.
