Loredana Polezzi, the D'Amato Endowed Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies at Stony Brook University, and her colleague Simone Brioni, an associate professor at the university, talk about Pietro di Donato, a bricklayer whose 1939 semi-autobiographical novel "Christ in Concrete" became a New York Times bestseller. Credit: Randee Daddona; Photo credits: Richard di Donato Collection

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