Author Archives: John Biscello

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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.

Lost Telegram

Posted on June 11, 2025 by John Biscello

I am happy to announce that I have signed on with Lost Telegram Press, a Canadian publisher, for the publication of my novel, The Last Furies. It is encouraging to have found a supportive home for what is an experimental, multi-form … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Lift-Off Film Fest

Posted on May 5, 2025 by John Biscello

The Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival is now live on Vimeo, and will run through June 1st. If you are interested in checking out our film The Bride (along with the other indie shorts that are being screened), here is the … Continue reading →

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Company

Posted on April 17, 2025 by John Biscello

In the company of numinous graces and unremembered lots Infinity counts upon phenomenal breadth and bandwidth to maximize its local market value within the human plot.

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Intrigue

Posted on April 17, 2025 by John Biscello

Plots, in a mysterious ceremony, unending. Ephemera becomes us, if only briefly.

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Notation

Posted on April 17, 2025 by John Biscello

Ghosts, in lucid drag, bare to the drifts and unerring grace of realms unending— we, in human-rent shape, exercise particles in a quantum plot of recall and dramatic flair— these mortal coils, shed, in frets and arpeggios, scale by scale, … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Lift-Off

Posted on April 17, 2025 by John Biscello

I am excited to announce that our speculative and experimental film The Bride is an official selection of the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival 2025. For those interested in tuning in, the festival will screen live on Vimeo (May 4th-June 1st), … Continue reading →

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Golden Silence

Posted on April 16, 2025 by John Biscello

Happy birthday, Charles Spencer Chaplin, and thanks for tramping around on-screen with such zest, pluck, vim, and gilded tenderness. Tatters in half-light,the poor heart’s lonely hunting–shreds of pure love, sown.

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The Wonder Years

Posted on April 14, 2025 by John Biscello

We are here but briefly, fingered skeins and finite exhales threaded within a spiraling fable of ordered repetitions and infinite respiration— We are the supplest of gilded elegies, membered to the magnetic cause of wake and dream.

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Neverland Noir Debuts

Posted on April 10, 2025 by John Biscello

Thank you to the Taos News,  Ekin Balcıoğlu, and Lynne Robinson, for providing this wonderful article and coverage on our upcoming original production, Neverland Noir: https://www.taosnews.com/tempo/arts/neverland-noir-a-classic-tale-dipped-in-shadow/article_79203892-e35c-5522-a249-a085f7d81670.html

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Buon Compleanno, John Fante!

Posted on April 8, 2025 by John Biscello

(John Fante, April 8th, 1909-May 8th, 1983) Inferiority might have been your first memory. Though you were born on American soil, stubbornly planted there, the chinked chains of immigration clanked and rattled, Marley-style, tightening round your throat, as you butted … Continue reading →

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