Although I'm not a huge Alan Alda fan I do know he lives in New Jersey and his real name is Alphonso D'Abruzzo. Since he and I had the Italian New Jersey connection I was curious to see what he had to say.
You chose: autobiography
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Italian-American naming traditions of abandonment, reclamation, nicknaming, and forgetting.
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In which this blogger says nothing more profound than he really, really likes figs.
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Power, Humor, and the Triumph of the Lower Bodily Stratum.
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As a new black-belt, I faced opposition from fellow students who remembered me "when." But how does one defeat insubordination?
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Welcome to Belmar, NJ. Site of one of the worst, and most transformative, weekends of my life.
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A “teachable moment” about mafia realties and representations.
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Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative
