Category Archives: Publications

Dietrich in Heaven

Posted on February 5, 2025 by John Biscello

My spoken word piece, “Dietrich in Heaven” is now live in the Open Mic section of New Pop Lit, a publication whose mission is to fuse pop writing with the literary, creating a new hybrid.

Posted in Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications, Video | Tagged Heaven, longing, Marlene Dietrich, new pop lit, old hollywood, Poetry, pop culture, romance, Spoken Word | Leave a comment

He Who Gets Slapped

Posted on January 16, 2025 by John Biscello

Posted in Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized, Video | Tagged flash fiction, happy days, happy days lost episode, henry winkler, mayberry, pop culture, reality bites, richie cunningham, ron howard, Spoken Word, story, the fonz | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Books, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications | Tagged autofiction, collection, fiction, flash fiction, new work, Prose, stories, text | 2 Comments

Brooklyn Spleen

Posted on November 21, 2024 by John Biscello

We didn’t talk about it, but we knew we’d never amount to anything, no matter what we did. No matter how celebrated the accomplishment, no matter how big the fiction and the audience buying it, nothing could ever fill those … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications | Tagged Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, childhood, friends, kids, neighborhood, Poetry, Prose, story, streets, train station | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications | Tagged black mirror, book review, Books, calamari archive, disintegration, family, fiction, haunted tale, indie lit, kafkaesque, lisa 2, music, nicholas rombes, nightmare, novel, perception, tech nightmare, thriller | Leave a comment

Blue Star trilogy

Posted on August 30, 2024 by John Biscello

After completing my most recent novel, Worlds Last Imagined, it, along with two other novels–No One Dreams in Color and None So Distant–comprise what I’m calling my Blue Star trilogy (2020-2024). The blue star reference pertains, at least in its … Continue reading →

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Ask the Dust

Posted on August 25, 2024 by John Biscello

A musician named Sam introduce 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, this house-based performance space in … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Poetry, Prose, Publications | Tagged 1930s, arturo bandini, ask the dust, books of my life, Brooklyn, italian american, john fante, los angeles, the writing life | Leave a comment

The Bride

Posted on August 8, 2024 by John Biscello

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater | Tagged berlin indie film festival, Cinema, experimental, film fests, gothic, haunting, horror, indie cinema, metamorphosis, the bride | Leave a comment

Monkeys and Barrels

Posted on June 23, 2024 by John Biscello

Kinked reflections on the writing life, New York states of mind, Babe Ruth’s prodigious appetite, Einsteinian time-blips, desert blues, and the Aqua Net generation.

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Video | Tagged aqua net, author, babe ruth, Brooklyn, einstein, graffiti, New York, Prose, publishing industry, reflections, Spoken Word, story, storytelling, the writing life, voice | Leave a comment