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Marianne Leone (strega54)
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Actor (4 seasons Sopranos) writer,3 memoirs& one novel, inclusion advocate, fierce hater of bullies and fascists, 1st gen daughter of Italian immigrants, lover of animals, happily wed to Chris Cooper for 42 yrs. www.marianneleonecooper.com no dms.
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OCTOBER 7- NEWTON, MA
Join @strega54.bsky.social Marianne Leone in discussion with Elizabeth Searle at @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social Newtonville Books
7PM
Newtonville Books
10 Langley Rd
Newton, MA

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October 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Happy Father's Day...
A father’s soothing ways - The Boston Globe
The energy that draws our rescue dog to my husband is the same gentleness and patience that surrounded our son when he was alive.
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June 21, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Wrote this over ten years ago...
What Mother's Day Means When You Outlive Your Child
On the indelible nature of motherhood.
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May 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Mother's Day is May 10th. My Ma has some things to tell yours.
May 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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#booksky
#books
October 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Marianne Leone will be at Belmont Books in Belmont, MA to discuss her new book, "Christina the Astonishing!" October 22 at 7PM @strega54.bsky.social
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Marianne Leone and Tom Perrotta discuss Christina the Astonishing
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October 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Join Marianne Leone at the Kingston Council on Aging as she discusses her hilarious new book, "Christina the Astonishing" on Oct. 7 at 6PM.
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October 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Today is the day! See @strega54.bsky.social discuss her hilarious new book “Christina the Astonishing” at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge tonight at 7pm

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Marianne Leone, author of Christina the Astonishing
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September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Looking forward to reading at Porter Square tomorrow night!
September 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Marianne Leone’s ‘Christina the Astonishing’ is a hilarious Boston-set coming-of-age novel - The Boston Globe
Ahead of readings with Chris Cooper, Leone talks nuns, Nonantum, and Larry David.
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September 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Today’s the day! At your local indie bookstore!
September 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Join Marianne Leone and Newtonville Books at the West Newton Theater as they discuss the new book Christina the Astonishing
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#indielit #indiebookstore
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September 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Congratulations to Marianne Leone for this shout out in Publishers Weekly!
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August 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Thanks Akashic & Publisher’s Weekly!
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Congratulations to Marianne Leone for this shout out in Publishers Weekly!
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August 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Like her late Italian immigrant mother, @strega54.bsky.social‬ is imagining what could befall her if the US’s slide into authoritarianism continues. #ThisIsAmerica
‘I was dreaming to come to America’
Marianne Leone's mother, who was born in Boston to Italian immigrants, returned to Italy with her parents as an infant. But in 1935, she used her American passport — and birthright citizenship — to…
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June 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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T#@$p wanted his nephew Fred to "maybe just let (his child with cerebral palsy)die....so he is right up there with his idol Hitler, who instituted the T4 Eugenics program that killed disabled people first. This soulless creature heads our government.
July 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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My mother was born to non-citizen Italian immigrants.
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‘I was dreaming to come to America’
Marianne Leone's mother, who was born in Boston to Italian immigrants, returned to Italy with her parents as an infant. But in 1935, she used her American passport — and birthright citizenship — to re...
www.wbur.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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“Unless there’s another small miracle … I worry that my country’s administration won’t wake from this fever dream of hate.” — @strega54.bsky.social‬ #ThisIsAmerica ‪@cogwbur.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/HwIfyEm
‘I was dreaming to come to America’
Marianne Leone's mother, who was born in Boston to Italian immigrants, returned to Italy with her parents as an infant. But in 1935, she used her American passport — and birthright citizenship — to…
www.wbur.org
May 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
‘I was dreaming to come to America’
Marianne Leone's mother, who was born in Boston to Italian immigrants, returned to Italy with her parents as an infant. But in 1935, she used her American passport — and birthright citizenship — to re...
www.wbur.org
May 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Mother's Day is May 11th!
April 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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A true work of art....
March 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

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March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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HERE'S MY TATTOO marianneleonecooper.com/2025/03/26/h...
HERE’S MY TATTOO
Today, March 25th, is World Cerebral Palsy Day. Hey Donald (I won’t dignify you with the title you have desecrated forever): I hear you’re looking for people who might not be Americans who have tat…
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March 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM