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A memoir of the author's growing up in Utica, New York, in the 1940s and 1950s. It celebrates the traditions and experiences of Italian American life. It presents a vivid detail not only his own early experiences but also the motley cast of characters surrounding him, paying tribute to indelible family ties.

Rading through The Editor's Wastebasket is like finding a chest filled with memories, hopes and dreams. Author Mario Fumarola looks back over a road traveled in eight decades, trying to ocus through the haze of memories and listening for the laughter of life. This book is a collage of memories and meditations (some sad, some sweet) of the past (the Italian-American enclave of East Utica, NY), the present (old age in Pennsylvania), and thoughts...

THE EDITOR'S WASTEBASKET is a journey of prose through America's urban landscape of the 20th century ... the modern American experience of a son of Italian immigrants, a childhood enmeshed in poverty and cultural intolerance, yet ... fulfilling among the close bonds of family members and friends. Mario's writing flows effortlessly from one experience to another, like a river of epiphanies that define the human experience. ... It is an exceptio...