The Godfather

“Which meant Vincent was costarring in the role of Joe Spinell as snitch in The Godfather II.”

Futures Imperfect

“With the publication of Mario Puzo's The Godfather in 1969, the long-lasting passion of the American public for the Mafia finally came out of the closet.”

Robin Hoodo

“One day my girlfriend Karen Cieplak was her usual pious self, neatly printing the names of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph at the top of each of her test papers, drawing a small fat cross between each word, and spending all her recesses counting and elaborately logging the coins she collected for the missions each morning after class prayers—and the next day she was sneaking a copy of The Godfather off the bookmobile and marking dirty passages with snips of the red yarn with which she every day tied her single auburn braid.”

Simon & Schuster: Hoopi Shoopi Donna