Seven allegorical carts are being prepared for the most famous carnival of the province of Teramo, parade on february 24 in Sant'Egidio: Pokemon(centro di Sant'Egidio), Millennium (frazione Paolantonio), Parco Giochi (frazione Villa Passo), Arabi (frazione Villa Mattoni) Carnevale degli Dei (frazione Faraone) Jamaica (contrada Madonna delle Grazie), Dragonball (contrada Ponte).

Stephen Cooper received access to all the manuscripts and material in John Fante's house thanks to Ms Joyce Fante, after the writer's death. In his coming Biography, Cooper also tells about John Fante's disappointment in visiting his father Nicola's native Torricella in the 1950's: elderly ladies in their shawls, dusty roads, stone houses.

Italian translation by Francesco Durante, the collection of short stories, some of them unpublished before, is a great document of the life of Italian Americans and their everyday struggles, the poverty, the war, their families. Also stories of kids, mostly inspired by Fante's own children. One of them, Dan Fante, is following in the father's footsteps.