Vincent Panella
Vincent Panella grew up in Queens and lives in Marlboro, Vermont. Three of his published books are the memoir The Other Side, the novel Cutter’s Island, and a short story collection called Lost Hearts.
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From Vol. 2, Issue 2: Ovunque Siamo: New Italian-American Writing
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The Other Side: Growing up Italian in America
The Other Side is Vincent Panella’s personal journey, from rejection of his family to a realization that he cannot escape or deny his origins.
Lost Hearts
The twenty-three stories in Lost Hearts comprise a rich and candid account of growing up and growing old in Sicily and America.
Cutter’s Island
This is a revenge tale based on a little known event in the life of Julius Caesar. When he was twenty five, Caesar was captured by pirates and held on an island for forty days. Cutter’s Island is the story of Caesar’s liberation and revenge
Cutter's Island is a perfect flawless gem, without a false not anywhere. In prose as spare of Caesar's own, Mr. Panella makes surfaces reflect surfaces, with the sense of bottomless depths beneath. He packs more between the lines, and between chapters, than most writers deliver in books and books.
– Steven Pressfield, author of Gates of Fire
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This Poet Walks Into A Bar…
Twain didn’t like it when he had a situation but no story. Tell that to any writer.As a college student I worked summers in my father’s bar in upstate New York. Newburgh was a poor Hudson River town with such social ills that my father’s business would...
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DEMOLITIONPrimo Levi’s Moments of Reprieve is a story collection based on his one-year stay in Auschwitz. The stories follow his other writings about the experience, and for those those who don’t know, Levi was an Italian Jew and trained chemist. In 1943 he joined a...
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Palm Sunday Speech to the Congregation
Palm Sunday, 2019, Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro.This is my short speech to the congregation as a Loaves and Fishes volunteer.Good morning, and thank you. My name is Vincent Panella, and I’m a retired teacher and a writer. I’ve been living in...
Texas Toast: Volunteering for Beto, Part II
[Read part 1 below — Vermont Views Magazine does not take part in partisan stances in local or national politics, but it does, from time to time, observe the state of people who vote, their knowledge and acuity, if any.]A Beto volunteer calls. "Have you...
What made me go to Texas?
What made me go to Texas? Last spring the news filtered in that a U.S. Rep from El Paso named Robert Francis O'Rourke, nicknamed Beto, (Bet-oh) was challenging Ted Cruz for a senate seat held by Republicans since the early nineties. Cruz was considered a...
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