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16About award-winning author Anthony Valerio&#39;s Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer, Professor Ellen Nerenberg says:
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18&quot;These confessions, mine, Walter Michael Gregory&#39;s, center on the interstices between soft and hard literary porn as they were known in the 1960s and 70s.&quot;
19 This is the kernel of Anthony Valerio&#39;s salty and sweet, romping short book, Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer. Trying to survive as a writer in New York City, Wally joins Ern Billions, Bonita Guggenheim, and Tad Browning as a staff writer at Porn/Prose, where, on spec and on commission, they write porn for hire. And &quot;for hire&quot; is part of the title of the pseudonymous Wally&#39;s best-known effort, This Body for Hire, which also has a place within the pages of Valerio&#39;s Confessions. Things are hard and soft in so many ways and directions. Among the hard are the winter of 1979, the rules of copyediting that Wally learns at Ern&#39;s knee, the lead of the Number 2 pencils he uses to ply his trade as a writers and editor, the concept of one-way staircase that disappears behind anyone who climbs it, the black laces of Sister Morisella&#39;s hard-soled black shoes. Among the soft we can group the heart of Anonymous, the hooker Wally invents as the first-person narrator of This Body for Hire, the pillowy arms and bosoms of the women his single mom Caroline surrounds herself with, the rounded characters of the notes Caroline the wordless uses to express herself. Pastiche reigns supreme as genre in this book that pivots between hard and soft, between first and third person narrator, between the writing hand and sober, dignified copyeditor&#39;s font and type. Delightful and witty, Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer is unafraid to own its Times Square-in-the-1970s setting.
20Prof. E. Nerenberg, Wesleyan University - Welcome!
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22FORTHCOMING FROM GRAILING PRESS: CONFESSIONS OF AN ASPIRING PORNOGRAPHER
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24IN INTERLOCKING STORIES WE SEE THE WORLD OF WALTER GREGORY, ASPIRING WRITER, AS IT SPRAWLS ACROSS LOWER MANHATTAN IN THE 50s, 60s and 70s.
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29Professor Eric Goldman&#39;s Review of Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer
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31Anthony Valerio&#39;s Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer is about the pleasure of creation. One by one, his characters rise, walk, talk and, of course, make love. Make no mistake, though, because Confessions isn&#39;t just, or even primarily, about sex, maugre the title; it&#39;s about love. For Valerio not only creates, with exquisite pleasure and loving skill, but raises his characters with loving care. And like holograms, with each engraved line they come closer to springing off the page. And spring they do, sometimes even onto each other.
32One such character, an eight-foot-long Bengal tigress, appears and disappears mysteriously and beautifully in the otherwise realistic landscape of Valerio&#39;s Manhattan. The tigress, a symbol of Valerio himself, ties together the collage-like pieces described by the titular &quot;aspiring,&quot; but not realized, pornographer: Walter Michael Gregory, a persona of the author himself.  On the hunt through the city for character, Gregory finds it in a variety of strange places and people, including himself (that&#39;s why one of his characters, interpreting his dream tigress, tells him, &quot;You are the Bengal tiger . . . You are her frightened prey&quot;).   
33Like the phantom tigress, Valerio&#39;s lines are simultaneously muscular and elegant. All that power moves easily, leaping from thought to thought with absolutely no strain at all, and with plenty left over, you feel. It&#39;s about being as compact as possible, naturally, with no wasted space, and n
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34Along with the characters who orbit Valerio&#39;s sun-like persona, Walter Michael Gregory—who warms them into life and vivacity as the sun warms the planets—is, of course, the author himself, in disguised form. Valerio gives us a bildungsroman-like account of his childhood, backlit of course with imagination and invention—one that leads through isolation all the way to and through aspiring pornography. What we finally arrive at as readers—in spite of the impact of a clam-like asteroid fragment that cleaves Walter Gregory&#39;s soft porn publishing house in two—is the destination of all of Valerio&#39;s works, humanity.
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40link to radio show on November 2. Great show with Stephan Alison about my relationship with Shel Silverstein (BEFORE THE SIDEWALK ENDED: A WALK WITH SHEL SILVERSTEIN and
41introduction and reading from forthcoming book: CONFESSIONS OF AN ASPIRING PORNOGRAPHER. 
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167<p class="from_wysiwyg">link to New Books Network podcast about Confessions:&nbsp;</p>
168<p class="from_wysiwyg">&nbsp;Anthony Valerio, "Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer" (Grailing Press, 2024) - New Books Network</p>
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178<a href="/index.htm"><h1 class='sb_title sb_has_Subtitle'>Anthony Valerio<br> <br> <br> <br>About award-winning author Anthony Valerio's Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer, Professor Ellen Nerenberg says:<br> <br>"These confessions, mine, Walter Michael Gregory's, center on the interstices between soft and hard literary porn as they were known in the 1960s and 70s."<br> This is the kernel of Anthony Valerio's salty and sweet, romping short book, Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer. Trying to survive as a writer in New York City, Wally joins Ern Billions, Bonita Guggenheim, and Tad Browning as a staff writer at Porn/Prose, where, on spec and on commission, they write porn for hire. And "for hire" is part of the title of the pseudonymous Wally's best-known effort, This Body for Hire, which also has a place within the pages of Valerio's Confessions. Things are hard and soft in so many ways and directions. Among the hard are the winter of 1979, the rules of copyediting that Wally learns at Ern's knee, the lead of the Number 2 pencils he uses to ply his trade as a writers and editor, the concept of one-way staircase that disappears behind anyone who climbs it, the black laces of Sister Morisella's hard-soled black shoes. Among the soft we can group the heart of Anonymous, the hooker Wally invents as the first-person narrator of This Body for Hire, the pillowy arms and bosoms of the women his single mom Caroline surrounds herself with, the rounded characters of the notes Caroline the wordless uses to express herself. Pastiche reigns supreme as genre in this book that pivots between hard and soft, between first and third person narrator, between the writing hand and s
178ober, dignified copyeditor's font and type. Delightful and witty, Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer is unafraid to own its Times Square-in-the-1970s setting.<br>Prof. E. Nerenberg, Wesleyan University</h1>
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291<p class="from_wysiwyg">link to New Books Network's wonderful podcast about CONFESSIONS OF AN ASPIRING PORNOGRAPHER:</p>
292<p class="from_wysiwyg">Anthony Valerio, "Confessions of an Aspiring Pornographer" (Grailing Press, 2024) - New Books Network</p>
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353<p class="from_wysiwyg">PODCAST JUST OUT ABOUT MY BOOK ON THE AMAZING Dr. Ignaz P. Semmelweis.</p>
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392cover design by Dave Barry for Semmelweis, the Women's Doctor - Just Released!<br>&nbsp;<br>The Life and Work of pioneering physician Ignaz P. Semmelweis, who discovered the causes and means of prevention of childbed fever, the H.I.V. and cancer of his day. Called the "Father of Antisepsis," he was largely ignored, placed in an asylum and murdered.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Proud to say that though Semmelweis lived and worked about 150 years ago the great art for this project from Aharon Gluska and Dave Barry root the great doctor in a powerful present. Below examples of their work for this project.<br>&nbsp;<br>"He was a man who did good for women."-- M. Zantedeschi<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;
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492<p class="from_wysiwyg">This is a highly original way of telling the story of John Dante, self-made namesake of the more famous Dante. Using the medieval poet's vision of Hell as a kind of running parallel narrative, Anthony Valerio weaves a fascinating tale of ambition, excess, friendship, and rocking good times back in the day of the Playboy Clubs, replete with Bunnies, orgies, and hedonistic fun. Valerio writes with verve and compassion about men and women who ran after their dreams and their pleasures with abandon, living as if youth, potency, and beauty would never end. They did, of course, and this gives a poignant quality to the book. This is also the life story of an Italian American who came up from very humble origins to the heights of Hugh Hefner's sexy Never Never Land. I didn't always like these players' choices, and the machismo of that world is sometimes hard to take. Women are prized for their long, smooth legs, their willingness to service the men, their decorative essence, all of which is not the most admirable way of viewing women. But those were the times and those were the values that dominated Hef's universe. John Dante did have his own moral code, unusual as it was, and he was above all a good and faithful friend. Valerio is so expert at making us feel the lives of others, even those very far from our own experiences, and his colloquial style is just right. It seems that he wrote this book out of friendship, and so it is ultimately a kind, compassionate book. I am looking forward to many more tales told by the master storyteller, Anthony Valerio!</p>
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551<p class="from_wysiwyg">Director for the AE TV series airing now SECRETS OF PLAYBOY Alexandra Dean and her film crew came to my house and filmed me for the series based on the above book. I did not know what to expect. I wrote the book and stood by it. Well, I appeared last night (Episode 5) in a gruesome Episode, undefensible in my opinion, while there I was speaking about what I had written. That work, in the event you do not know, was based on the life of John Dante. Here is the infor for that work.</p>
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570<p class="from_wysiwyg">Like a beam of sunlight that bends<br />Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2017<br />The plot of Valerio's novel is refracted through a series of vignettes relayed through the narrator's conversations with an approachable mafia don (the titular Johnny) and the narrator's lover, a married woman nicknamed Lefty living a quiet life of married desperation (until she meets the narrator). Like a beam of sunlight that bends, separates into colors, and then reunites after passing through a variety of media, the narrator's conversations express a conflicted relationship with love (not only of women, he tells us, but "the way I view everything.")</p>
571<p class="from_wysiwyg">The narrator, though preoccupied with universal questions, is resolutely, concretely Italian-American, and through his conversations with Johnny he engages both with the local meaning of this identity (in New York City) as well its larger temporal and geographical extensions: back in time to Garibaldi in Italy; across the ocean to Sicily and beyond. As one of the fictional narrators within the novel/autobiography says while musing over the confluence of the Hudson River and Atlantic Ocean, "For years I wondered exactly where the fresh water turns to salt." Key to this novel, and nowhere better or more beautifully articulated than the conversation that follows about how freshwater and saltwater fish both survive there, is the theme of immigration and dual identity. The novel, like the Hudson, is intimately "local" in its quotidian contact with Italian-American culture in New York, but never loses contact with the ocean that lies beyond, and is quite at ease moving just as intimately across the Atlantic &ndash; and not only across space but across time &ndash; to various locales in Italy. And then there are the imaginary locales of Nicholas's (the narrator's) memory and desire, which add the third dimension of imagination to Valerio's invented autobiography.</p>
572<p class="from_wysiwyg">If this sounds "literary" (unfortunately this term is a pejorative in some circles), it is also winningly funny, full of the wise humor of Valerio's narrator Nicholas, who is a persona of the engaging writer himself. Though the fragmented plot and shifts between different conversations and locales is at first challenging for readers seeking a more traditional linear novel, Valerio's Conversations has a seductive power that does its work subtly and silently, so after it ends you will feel, without really understanding why, like a silence has fallen after a long-lost friend has departed. And the fact that this is accomplished not through an operatic voice but through a series of apparently desultory conversations is an impressive feat of Valerio's dialogic style.</p>
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675<p class="from_wysiwyg">Anthony Valerio's Semmelweis doesn't just make you feel the thrill of hunting the cause of one of the most devastating diseases of the nineteenth century (puerperal fever, a major killer of pregnant women and newborns) with one of the great medical scientists of the nineteenth century, Ignaz Semmelweis. Even more powerfully, he brings readers to feel Semmelweis's frustration of actually finding the cause and the means of preventing it, but then not being able to save thousands of women dying of the disease because of the pride, vanity, and ignorance of the medical establishment.</p>
676<p class="from_wysiwyg">Valerio's Semmelweis is no alienating genius who has from birth a special capacity for greatness that we can only witness and admire. Instead, Valerio impresses upon us how Semmelweis stumbles into greatness, almost against his will, into a mystery he feels both intellectually and, increasingly, morally responsible for solving. And then, Valerio renders the hardest part of Semmelweis's burden: his ethical responsibility to tell doctors that they are the cause of the epidemic of dead mothers and babies. Because Valerio so effectively allows us to identify with Semmelweis (we enter his painstaking logic and solve the mystery with him), his allies seem like our friends, too. Likewise, the ironic enemies of Semmelweis's discovery&mdash;the very doctors who are supposed to cure disease and protect the innocent from death&mdash;become the reader's enemies.</p>
677<p class="from_wysiwyg">Valerio's book is an intimate and heartfelt letter of thanks and gratitude to one of history's great heroes. What makes Valerio's narrative biography so moving at both intellectual and emotional levels, though, is his ability to bring readers within Semmelweis's mind and heart, looking out with him both at a physical disease that tormented and destroyed so many women and children and, almost as bad, at a cultural disease of male pride and power that prevented Semmelweis's discovery and cure from saving so many victims. Readers feel like they are with Semmelweis in the hospital wards where women are dying mysteriously of puerperal fever. We feel with him as he hunts down the cause of the disease with observation and deductive reasoning.&nbsp; We share the exhilarating joy of discovering the cause and then, once the establishment resists the findings, and rejects the easy prevention of the disease, Semmelweis's initial outrage and anger. Though injustice meets Semmelweis at the end of his life, his personal battle to make doctors wash their hands largely lost, ultimately the scientific truth and power of Semmelweis's discovery prevail, as Valerio reminds us in the opening images of hand-sanitizer in modern-day hospitals.</p>
678<p class="from_wysiwyg">Semmelweis is as intimate and personally engaging a narrative of a medical genius as anyone could possibly write. Valerio's book transcends, with its ability to allow readers into Semmelweis's amble heart and mind, mere biography and becomes, instead, a form of human autobiography.</p>
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820<p class="from_wysiwyg">The narrator, though preoccupied with universal questions, is resolutely, concretely Italian-American, and through his conversations with Johnny he engages both with the local meaning of this identity (in New York City) as well its larger temporal and geographical extensions: back in time to Garibaldi in Italy; across the ocean to Sicily and beyond. As one of the fictional narrators within the novel/autobiography says while musing over the confluence of the Hudson River and Atlantic Ocean, "For years I wondered exactly where the fresh water turns to salt." Key to this novel, and nowhere better or more beautifully articulated than the conversation that follows about how freshwater and saltwater fish both survive there, is the theme of immigration and dual identity. The novel, like the Hudson, is intimately "local" in its quotidian contact with Italian-American culture in New York, but never loses contact with the ocean that lies beyond, and is quite at ease moving just as intimately across the Atlantic &ndash;
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821<p class="from_wysiwyg">If this sounds "literary" (unfortunately this term is a pejorative in some circles), it is also winningly funny, full of the wise humor of Valerio's narrator Nicholas, who is a persona of the engaging writer himself. Though the fragmented plot and shifts between different conversations and locales is at first challenging for readers seeking a more traditional linear novel, Valerio's Conversations has a seductive power that does its work subtly and silently, so after it ends you will feel, without really understanding why, like a silence has fallen after a long-lost friend has departed. And the fact that this is accomplished not through an operatic voice but through a series of apparently desultory conversations is an impressive feat of Valerio's dialogic style.</p>
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857<p class="from_wysiwyg">JUST FINISHED. EXCITED ABOUT IT, OBVIOUSLY.</p>
858<p class="from_wysiwyg">a little about it:</p>
859<p class="from_wysiwyg">Of the editorial fields open to aspiring writers in the 60s and 70s is the world of commissioned porn. Wally Gregory wends his way through Lower Manhattan's micro-communites, dishing up porn for a salary and a chance at the entry into the world of literaure. Forthcoming from Grailing Press</p>
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861<p class="from_wysiwyg">link to excerpt:&nbsp;https://shoutout.wix.com/so/ccOan0tVu?languageTag=en&amp;cid=3a15eb5c-9f19-481c-bfad-e1c0dd821cdb</p>
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891<p class="from_wysiwyg">BILLY BELLO, WIZARD OF BENSONHURST</p>
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893Meet teenager Billy Bello, modern-day wizard. He can see through things. He can step onto his magic carpet and fly to distance lands. Ride elephants in India with Sabu. At the same time, Billy shares anxieties with young folks around the world. Drugs. Crime. Coming-of-age Sex. He fancies himself a lover.</p>
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909<p class="from_wysiwyg">READINGS FROM MY WORLD-WIDE VIRTUAL TOUR.</p>
910<p class="from_wysiwyg">HERE'S THE LINK.</p>
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912<p class="from_wysiwyg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6HUc1QxYCapjyP9fDqorCQ</p>
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914<p class="from_wysiwyg"><br />Featuring Back Stories to each book (beginnign with the last one, BILLY BELLO, WIZARD, followed by BART: A LIFE OF A.BARTLETT GIAMATTI.)</p>
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980<p class="from_wysiwyg"><br />First, there's the subject matter. Decades of insider *Playboy* views, virtually from the landmark magazine's inception. Second, there is the intricate weaving of the "other" Dante's story. John Dante sought to imitate Dante Alighieri, he of the medieval, Italian and "divine" Comedy, who meted out punishments, penances, and paradises, in an epic-length poem made of three parts. What has one to do with the other? That would be the third part of this unique book, part social history, part immigrant story, the part that I will call the cautionary tale. For, and I won't say how, John Dante does not end well.<br />Parading through these pages are some of the best-known names in show business and, its darker side--especially for a magazine self-identified as "men's entertainment"-- pornography: Beatty, Bogdanovich, Caan, Cosby, Curtis, Jagger, Lovelace, Nicholson, Reems, Steinem, and, especially, Silverstein. Readers will be riveted by the portrait of the beloved children's author that emerges in these pages. Not exactly what they may have expected. Silverstein urged John Dante to contact Valerio, whom Silverstein knew and whose work he respected, so that John Dante could write a book--the insider's view of *Playboy*!--that would earn him enough money to get him to Florence, the town that exiled his namesake, the poet Dante Alighieri close to 700 years earlier. The 20th-century (John) Dante gets to Florence all right, but the price is steep, indeed. It's not exactly *Se7en,* but it has its dark, seamy, *nasty* side. Think *Star 80*.</p>
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981The surprising portrait of Silverstein is but one of the gifts that this book offers. Another is the gangsta Chicagoland of the 1950s and early `60s, which teems with memorable gangland characters.<br />Part biography, part immigrant story, *John Dante's Inferno* in some ways mimics the Poet Dante's imagined journey through hell, into purgatory, and, finally, into paradise. Yet the 20th Century was a chaotic one, and sometimes it's difficult to keep separate what is hell and what is heaven. For example, John Dante claims to have had 16,000 women--and, *maybe*, one male--as lovers (he can't be sure: he was too stoned to say, exactly). Heavenly, to be sure, at least as far as John Dante was concerned. Heavenly, but with a (hellish) price to be paid.<br />Valerio writes surely and gives us gripping and very, very literate prose. It seems completely appropriate that the readers of *John Dante's Inferno* be brought into the presence of the Great Libertines of western culture, which include, surely, Casanova and Hugh Hefner.<br />Read it. And enjoy.</p>
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1029<p class="from_wysiwyg">Conversation with Johnny&nbsp;is very special to me, because it constitutes at least my own dual cultural nature, the writer and the individual of power, the local gangster who most of us experienced in the old neighborhoods. Here, they merge into one. Out of this duo comes, I hope, a kind of closure on the stereotype we also all know, that of the godfather myth. On an exalted plain above all of this, to my great pleasure, is the alluring, elusive woman</p></div>
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1113<p class="from_wysiwyg"><br />Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2020</p>
1114<p class="from_wysiwyg"><br />Valerio's voice is unique, and reflects the cityscape he describes in this "walk" with Silverstein. About midway through the book, Shel provides a "blurb" for one of Valerio's books that, to me, seemed like a perfect description of this charming promenade. (You'll have to read this; and see the original note). One can't help but be nostalgic with the author for an earlier era (nostalgic for certain things, not Aids or orgies). I couldn't help but think, in reading this, that there was a flavor to NYC that seems duller now&hellip;.but is totally present in Valerio's writing. The writing transports and provides welcome oasis these days!</p>
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1156<p class="from_wysiwyg">BEFORE THE SIDEWALK ENDED: A WALK WITH SHEL SILVERSTEIN</p>
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1285<p class="from_wysiwyg"><br />The best<br />Valuable information<br />Engaging delivery<br />Helpful practice activities</p>
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1287<p class="from_wysiwyg">thanks, AV</p>
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1402<p class="from_wysiwyg">Thought that since I wrote them I might talk a little about my books. Ten in number, thus far, covering my writing life beginning in the late 1970's with the Short Story "The Skyjacker" in The Paris Review and continuing to the recently completed <em>Semmelweis, the Women's Doctor</em>. Feels like just the other day.-- A.V. - 03/2019.<br /><br />Titles in ascending order:<br /><br />The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn<br /><br />Valentino &amp; the Great Italians<br /><br />BART: a Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti<br /><br />Anita Garibaldi, a Biography<br /><br />Conversation with Johnny, a novel<br /><br />Toni Cade Bambara's One Sicilian Night, a memoir<br /><br />The Little Sailor, a Romantic Thriller<br /><br />John Dante's Inferno, a Playboy's Life<br /><br />IMMIGRANTS according to Anthony Valerio, Volumes 1 &amp; 2<br /><br />Semmelweis, the Women's Doctor</p>
1403<p class="from_wysiwyg"><br />Proud to say all books are in print. They - digital &amp; print editions - can be found on Amazon.com -- search Anthony Valerio. And each title has its own Facebook page which will be listed in the Works section. - - Anthony <br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
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1451<p class="from_wysiwyg">I have attempted to present his life and work through his eyes, mind and heart. At the same time, experience as deeply as possible the horror of a new mother who contracted childbed fever in the days immediately after giving the gift of life. Her motherhood denied! Sudden farewell to her newborn! Attempting in a flash to 
1451see how he or she will turn out! Identifying with her pain, the pity. Unimaginable pain, for the post-partum "twilight sleep" of a combination of morphine and scopolamine, an amnesiac, would not be introduced until 60-odd years later. To comprehend the life of Ignaz Semmelweis, one must also plumb oneself, we children who survived.&nbsp;</p>
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1453<p class="from_wysiwyg">...the hope is that today, around the world, at this moment, when one is passing surely one of millions of hand sanitizers and uses it to cleanse the hands, a thought can possibly go out to Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis and a fuller understanding, and appreciation, of his life and work.</p>
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1469<p class="from_wysiwyg"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"In a global #metoo moment, Semmelweis should also have his place as someone who listened to women and, significantly, to their ailing bodies, even as the medical profession dismissed a common affliction killing women as a "woman's illness" and therefore not worthy of a place on the forefront of medicine. There is a photo circling the internet of the actor Patrick Stewart holding a sign with the Amnesty International seal. The caption for this image, presumably in Stewart's own words, is this: "People won't take you seriously unless you're an old white man, and since I'm an old white man I'm going to use that to help the people who need it." The sign Stewart is holding reads: Defend right for girls and women. Semmelweis, like Stewart, believed in embodied response, of putting one's body behind and into one's words. To be sure, Semmelweis was a pioneering physician and scientist whose accomplishments should be studied for their contributions to science. But he was also a feminist, and his work should be understood in that vein, also."--Ellen Nerenberg, Hollis Professor of Romance Languages &amp; Literatures, Dean, Arts and Humanities. Wesleyan University</span></p>
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1471<p class="from_wysiwyg"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On a school outing with my 9 and 10-year-old classmates to the local cinema we saw a film about the life and work of Dr. Semmelweis. I knew about him, from school but even more from my parents; at home I read about famous Hungarian heroes, not just kings and warriors, but those ignored in their lifetime, whose work could have benefited all, children, women, and men. Our history, so full of tragedies like his, unrealized potential: failed reformers and inventors, scientists and artists embittered and ignored, driven to early death. &ndash;Ak&ouml;s Őstor, professor, author, filmmaker</span></p>
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1502<p class="from_wysiwyg">The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn by Anthony Valerio contains a series of portraits: "My Mother," "My Father," "My Sister," "My Aunts," "My Uncles" and others. Valerio writes with energy and a rich style, and has an unusually good eye for detail. The situations happen in Brooklyn in the life of an Italian-American family, and sometimes in Italy. Talk about ethnicity:It's here in dozens of guises and shapes. Rudolph Valentino figures in two stories: "You could tell Valentino coming from a mile away by his gait and the unusual swing of his arms. He placed one foot directly in front of the other and swung his arms high in front and just as high in back...and he never looked you straight in the face, tilting his head slightly away to hide his cauliflower ear and his scar." The book has zest, high humor, madness, detached reflection, and pathos.<br />--Los Angeles Times</p>
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