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Jackdaw and the Doll
Audio presentation of The Jackdaw and the Doll, featuring a slideshow of the book’s illustrations. ABOUT K. leads a double life. Timid office clerk by day, storyteller by night. But not just any storyteller. Transforming into a jackdaw, K. takes … Continue reading
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Tagged Audio, audio book, fable, kafka, magical realism, picture book, Prose, Publication, storytelling, Video, wonder
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Falling
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Tagged audio recording sessions, memory, poem, Poetry, snow, the dead
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Nocturne Remixed
Completed film script adaptation of my novel, Nocturne Variations. One of my ongoing projects has been adapting my novels and plays into feature-length film scripts, and it has been a great joy and challenge and learning experience, remixing and re-visioning … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, adventures in screenwriting, big screen, book, Cinema, cinemagical, craft, dreams, movies, noir, novel, peter pan remixed, Publication, screenplay, screenwriting, script, shadow play, writing life
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A Dream Grows in Brooklyn
New edition of No Man’s Brooklyn available. “Biscello succeeds in bringing to life both Daniel as well as the intriguing milieu that created him: stoops, city parks, 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor.”–KIRKUS REVIEWS NO MAN’S BROOKLYNFrom the valentine boneyards of … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, city, family, fiction, first love, fourthnovel, mystery, new edition, New York, novel, Publication, shadowlands, street beat, urban tale
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Fortress of Solitude
Excerpt from The Jackdaw and the Doll “Yokoyama’s graphite illustrations …fashion an understated, symbolic elegy for a famous literary voice … Poetic descriptions of Kafka’s storytelling deftly capture the relationship between existential terror and creative production … Accomplished, graceful mythmaking … Continue reading
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Tagged children's book, creative acts, fable, franz kafka, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, kirkus reviews, magical realism, mythmaking, prague, Publication, shadows, story, storytelling
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Dilate
Audio and text versions of my piece, “Apocalypse Now & Again” appearing in the inaguaural online issue of Dilate Magazine. ABOUT “This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends; … Continue reading
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Tagged art, concepts, dilate magazine, freeform, ideas, Literary, poem, Prose, Publication, revolutionary, words
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