Italian American Stories

Italian American Stories is a fun interview with author and columnist Linda Stasi. We discussed everything from Italian Cowboys in Colorado, to exorcist priests, to the Lemon Ice King in Corona, to the Scotto family cookbook and our NY Daily News connection! Not to mention her fabulous books.

The popular and well-read columnist for the New York Daily News, (now at-large), and previous- ly for the the New York Post, Linda Stasi, was also an on-camera TV co-host with Mark Simone on NY 1 -Spectrum “What a Week!” For 15 years. In 2020, she was appointed to the Mother Cabrini Commission and the Board of The Civil Rights Museum. Brash, funny and opinionated, the acerbic Stasi’s first novel, The Sixth Station, published in Jan- uary of 2013 by Tor-Forge Books hit Amazon’s top 25, and was hailed as “A helluva religious thriller,” by Nelson DeMille, while Steve Berry said, “You’ll be grabbing the pages so right your knuckles will turn white!” Stasi’s anxiously awaited sequel,“Book of Judas” was published Fall 2017, received acclaim from mega best selling authors such as Sherrilyn Kenyon, who called it, “An innovative master- piece!” Stasi has appeared on TV talk shows and news channels such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The O’Reilly Factor, Hardball, Good Day New York, The View as well as CNN, Fox News, MSNBC news shows, and many others. Stasi has also authored five non-fiction books – Looking Good Is the Best Revenge, A Field Guide to Impossible Men, Simply Beautiful, Boomer Babes, and Scotto Sunday Suppers. Not afraid to say what’s on her mind in her popular column in the New York Daily News has reached more than 600,000 in a single day. She was named “One of the Fifty Most Powerful Women in NYC” and has won numerous awards including “Best Columnist” by the Newswomen’s Club of NY, “Best Humor Columnist,” and “Woman of the Year” by the Boys Town of Italy for her charitable work such as driving a tractor-trailer in an 18-truck convoy from NYC to the gulf states with relief supplies for Hurri- cane Katrina victims. She and her husband, Sid Davidoff, were named by “City & State”in 2017 as one of NYC’s 100 top power couples.