Fred Misurella

Biography


A writer, Fulbright Scholar, lover of newspapers, books, movies and most things French or Italian (especially novels and opera), Fred Misurella has published fiction and non-fiction in many journals, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor, The Partisan Review, Salmagundi, Altre Italie, and L'Atelier du Roman. He was educated at the University of Iowa, has lived in New York and Paris, and presently resides in the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania with his wife, Kim, and son, Alex. He teaches creative writing, journalism, and Italian-American Literature at East Stroudsburg University and makes pilgrimages to Provence, Liguria, and Tuscany almost every summer with his family

Selected Works

Fiction
"The Search for Giovanni"
A sample chapter from Only Sons (Link to the text).
"A World Made New" (Chapter I of Only Sons)
Published in Paterson Literary Review #36 (January 2008) (Link to text.)
Lies to Live By (short stories)
The Red and the Black of Italian-Americana, these stories disect the essence of contemporary living. (With a link to one of the stories.)
Short Time (a novella)
Uncannily accurate about Vietnam, its soldiers, and their tragic return home.
Literary Criticism
Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs
Detailed analysis and interpretation of Milan Kundera's works from The Joke through Immortality.
"A Clear Eye on Life: Renaissance Style in Primo Levi's Writing"
The lead essay in The Legacy of Primo Levi, edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese, published by Palgrave/Macmillan

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