Join us for a talk by Veteran Philadelphia journalist George Anastasia, who will be speaking about two true crime cases from the Delaware Valley area.

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Veteran Philadelphia journalist George Anastasia has written about organized and disorganized crime for decades, covering casino gambling in Atlantic City, mob hits in Philadelphia and criminal prosecutions throughout the country. A reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1974 through 2012, he is currently a freelance writer and author specializing in crime reporting. The recipient of numerous journalism awards, Anastasia is the author of six books and two anthologies, including "Blood and Honor" (William Morrow & Co., 1991), which Jimmy Breslin called "the best gangster book ever written." His books include “Gotti’s Rules, the Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti and the Demise of the American Mafia” from Dey Street Books (HarperCollins) published in January 2015. His other books are NYT bestsellers "The Summer Wind" (Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1999) about the Thomas Capano-Anne Marie Fahey murder case and "The Last Gangster” (HarperCollins, 2004); "The Goodfella Tapes (Avon Books, 1998), and "Mobfather" (Kensington Books, 1993).
He is the co-author (with Ralph Cipriano) of “Doctor Dealer” (Berkley Books, Penguin Random House 2020) and (with Glen Macnow) of “The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies” (Perseus Books, 2011). He  collaborated with criminal attorney and former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman on Goodman’s biography “Being Oscar” (Weinstein Books, 2013) and with Philadelphia attorney Andrew Stern on Stern’s book “Justice Under the Rubble,” about the tragic Salvation Army building collapse in Philadelphia (Camino Books, 2018).
His work at The Inquirer also formed the basis for two true crime anthologies, "Mob Files" and "Philadelphia True Noir," both published by Camino Books. Anastasia is the author of a novella, "The Big Hustle" (Philadelphia Inquirer Books, 2001) and has contributed to two anthologies of Italian-American writers, "A Sitdown with the Sopranos" and "Don't Tell Momma." He currently writes the Mob Scene a column for JerseyMan/PhillyMan Magazine and is an adjunct professor at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, where he teaches courses on organized crime and journalism. He also has taught a course on organized crime at Drexel University and a course in the Urban Studies Department at Temple University on the impact of casino gambling on Atlantic City and has been a lecturer for a U.S. State Department-sponsored series of weeklong seminars on journalism and organized crime in Bulgaria (2004, 2007), Croatia (2005), Serbia (2006) and Italy (2007). Born in South Philadelphia and raised in southern New Jersey, Anastasia is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1969) with a B.A. in French Literature. As an undergraduate, he studied at universities in Toulouse and Montpelier while living in France. He has also taken courses at Swarthmore College and the University of Florida in sabbatical programs sponsored by the Philadelphia Inquirer. His work and more information about him can be found on the website Mob-Scene.net.

This program fulfills PA Forward's Civic and Social Literacy through "community engagement which allows individuals to interact with one another, in a participatory manner."