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Podcast: The Italian American Podcast
Episode: IAP 39: Gina Barreca on staying true to your roots and being unabashedly Italian American
Description: In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we talk with Gina Barreca, an Italian American author and humorist.  She is the editor of two books that our audience may find interesting: DON'T TELL MAMA: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITING and of A SIT-DOWN WITH THE SOPRANOS: Watching Italian American Culture on TVs Most Talked-About Series. In this episode, she tells us her Italian-American story, and she talks about how education was looked at much differently twenty years ago by Italian Americans. In our Stories Segment, we talk with Susan Van Allen, author of 100 Places in Ital...