Category Archives: Books

Metamorphosis Variations

Posted on February 24, 2025 by John Biscello

My fiction piece, “Metamorphosis Variations” (inspired by the first sentence of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”) now appearing in 3:AM magazine. Excerpt below: As I awoke one morning, from a night of discarded syringes and cough syrup, I found myself transformed … Continue reading →

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Edie, Interrupted

Posted on February 10, 2025 by John Biscello

Splitting images, resurrection on a loop– Stripping for heaven.

Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry | Tagged actress, Edie Sedgwick, film, It Girl, model, Poetry, The Factory, warhol days | Leave a comment

The Menken

Posted on February 10, 2025 by John Biscello

She, the Menken, Byronic in flame and force, mastered the art of social media long before technology caught up, selling the illusion of a man/ woman bound naked to a horse; she, the salacious Mazeppa, incited a modern storm, long … Continue reading →

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To the Lighthouse

Posted on January 24, 2025 by John Biscello

Posted in Audio, Books, Cinema, Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized, Video | Tagged beaconing, blessings, lyrics to go, new romantics, poem, spirit, Spoken Word, verses from the abstract, vision quest, visionaries, voice is all, wordpray | Leave a comment

Room to Dream

Posted on January 16, 2025 by John Biscello

Visionary, cinematic shaman, and iconconclastic creative force, David Lynch was one of the most profound influences and inspirations in my life, someone whose work impacted me deep in my core and could move me to tears. Truly and thoroughly one … Continue reading →

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Scarecrow

Posted on January 15, 2025 by John Biscello

Posted in Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications, Video | Tagged Brooklyn, Cinema, fiction, flash fiction, judy garland, oz, Reading, scarecrow, spokenword, story, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Lives in the Day Of

Posted on January 13, 2025 by John Biscello

One of my recent projects has been compiling stories and flash fiction into a collection titled: Lives in the Day Of. After selection, rewriting, and editing, the collection comprises twenty-two pieces, spanning the past fifteen years. Some of these works … Continue reading →

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Dust in the Wind

Posted on November 13, 2024 by John Biscello

A musician named Sam introduced me to Ask the Dust when I was in my early twenties. It was exactly the book I needed at the time. Sam had heard me read at the Vault, a house-based, performance space in … Continue reading →

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Through a Screen Darkly

Posted on October 15, 2024 by John Biscello

(A review of Lisa 2, v1.0, by Nicholas Rombes) It begins in an irremediable present-tense, a limbo of cirrus and gray, in which the voice of a man, functioning out of narrative necessity, becomes spectral detective to the story of … Continue reading →

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The Old Neighborhood

Posted on September 1, 2024 by John Biscello

Recorded version of my piece, “Fruit,” which was a 2023 Non-Fiction Prize Finalist in Brooklyn Film & Arts essay competition. The story revolves around shame, powerlessness, addiction, and survival techniques during days of Brooklyn youth.

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