September 16, 2010
"Lost Hearts Recovered: Panella's Masterful Short Stories"
from The Brattleboro Reformer

Vincent Panella's new book of short stories, Lost Hearts, published by Apollo's Bow Press in Marlboro, Vt., contains twenty three brilliantly visceral stories. Set in the fifties and sixties, these thematically connected tales follow their protagonist, Charlie Marino, from adolescence through middle age in his Italian neighborhood of Queens, New York. Both a master of detail and narrative drive, Panella develops his characters and plots with an inherent element of surprise, establishing a consistent strategic calculus of offsetting momentary happiness, or the promise of happiness, against what Freud called "common unhappiness." ...read more.

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September 8, 2010
"A History of Lost Hearts: Newfane Writer Releases New Short Story Collection."
from The Brattleboro Commons

NEWFANE—Vincent Panella says he is “lucky enough to have a foot in two worlds” as a writer.

His grandfather came over from Sicily in the 1900s, and Panella grew up in Queens in New York. He was an avid reader. “A lot of books inspired my writing,” Panella says. “I read a lot of pulp fiction and Westerns. I first started writing when I was 19, an engineering student in college, and I found I didn’t like [engineering.] I wrote my first novel when I was in the Army at 23. It was all about teenage frustrations. It was so bad that I burned it up.” ...read more.

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