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Marianne Leone (strega54)

@strega54.bsky.social

Actor (4 seasons Sopranos) Writer,3 memoirs, novel coming 2025, inclusion advocate, fierce hater of bullies and fascists, 1st gen daughter of Italian immigrants, lover of animals, happily wed to Chris Cooper for 41 yrs. www.marianneleonecooper.com no dms.

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21.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marianne Leone and Tom Perrotta discuss Christina the Astonishing

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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19.10.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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Not today! Sunday at four pm!!!!

12.09.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Marianne Leone, author of Christina the Astonishing

Today is the day! See @strega54.bsky.social discuss her hilarious new book β€œChristina the Astonishing” at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge tonight at 7pm

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10.09.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to reading at Porter Square tomorrow night!

09.09.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marianne Leone’s β€˜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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04.09.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s the day! At your local indie bookstore!

02.09.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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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01.09.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to Marianne Leone for this shout out in Publishers Weekly!
@strega54.bsky.social @publisherswkly.bsky.social

25.08.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks Akashic & Publisher’s Weekly!

26.08.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜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 β€” and birthright citizenship β€” to…

Like her late Italian immigrant mother, @strega54.bsky.social‬ is imagining what could befall her if the US’s slide into authoritarianism continues. #ThisIsAmerica

03.06.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

03.07.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜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 β€” and birthright citizenship β€” to re...

My mother was born to non-citizen Italian immigrants.
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27.06.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜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 β€” and birthright citizenship β€” to…

β€œUnless there’s another small miracle … I worry that my country’s administration won’t wake from this fever dream of hate.” β€” @strega54.bsky.social‬ #ThisIsAmerica β€ͺ@cogwbur.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/HwIfyEm

27.05.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜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 β€” and birthright citizenship β€” to re...

www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

15.05.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mother's Day is May 11th!

29.04.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe they were led astray by the continual sane-washing by the NY Times....

08.04.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lickspittle. Toady.

29.03.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This ridiculous yuck it up "interview" is why I no longer watch CNN "journalists."

27.03.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A true work of art....

27.03.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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26.03.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 56569    πŸ” 21401    πŸ’¬ 1998    πŸ“Œ 1370

Thank you. I published all of Jesse's poems in my memoir about him. I read one of them at a Massachusetts Poetry event. An award-winning poet praised it to me. I was overcome. To have this person in the highest position in our land mock the way my son held his hands is just...inhuman.

27.03.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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…

HERE'S MY TATTOO marianneleonecooper.com/2025/03/26/h...

26.03.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
HERE’S MY TATTOO Today, March 25th, is World Cerebral Palsy Day. I sent this piece to the Boston Globe and dared them to print it (they won't). So here it is: 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 tattoos so you can ship them away.

HERE’S MY TATTOO

Today, March 25th, is World Cerebral Palsy Day. I sent this piece to the Boston Globe and dared them to print it (they won't). So here it is: 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…

26.03.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Washington Post=Pravda. Cancelled you months ago. What a sad demise of a once-great paper.

17.03.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I stand with Ukraine.

28.02.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5696    πŸ” 1422    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 81

Hero Zelensky has to answer to this fat-faced, eyelinered little FUCK? He deserves the Nobel prize for not throat punching this little piece of shit.

28.02.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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