Literary Cocktail Hour with Chard deNiord and Novelist, Vincent Panella

The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites you to join us for a virtual Literary Cocktail Hour, featuring former Vermont Poet Laureate Chard DeNiord as he interviews Vincent Panella on his soon-to-be-published novel, Sicilian Dreams. In this novel, Santo Regina, a 32-year old activist, immigrates to America after taking part in a failed political movement incited by Vito Cascio Ferro, a prominent member of the Sicilian Mafia. Once in America Santo becomes entangled again with Cascio Ferro and his arch rival, Detective Joseph Petrosino of New York’s famous Italian Squad.