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Tag Archives: John Biscello
Brooklyn in Taos
Review of No Man’s Brooklyn in this week’s edition of the Taos News, as well as an interview about the novel, growing up in Brooklyn, and the writing life. No Man’s Brooklynby John BiscelloCSF Publishing (2021, 164 pp.) “Anya, a … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony distefano, Brooklyn, CSF Publishing, interview, John Biscello, Literary, new novel, New York, no man's brooklyn, Prose, Review, Taos, Taos News
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Rainy Night
Something in me couldn’t bear the prospect of sitting next to Anya on the train, of us talking. I didn’t want there to be any words between us. Ours had become a ghost story and I wanted silence to fulfill … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications
Tagged anthony distefano, Brooklyn, CSF Publishing, first love, ghost story, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, novel, rainy night
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Company
It is scary once you realize that the past can be changed, and that the future is fixed, a rigged absolute. Knowing that changes everything. And what about the present? For some the present is intolerable cruelty, unimpeachable company. For … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, no sleep till brooklyn, novel, train station
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Boneyard
I tell myself stories in the dark, Anya. Whether or not they help is either of primary consequence or none at all. Sometimes you have to walk through the boneyard in order to reach the garden. This is what I … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, noir, novel, shadow play
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Tryst
It’s tough to always be in love with a ghost. It’s also easy. The living don’t stand a chance against ghosts. In loving ghosts there are no real complications, no real disappointments, no real anything. There’s lots of teething on … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, ghost story, John Biscello, noir, novel
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Feast Days
I could feel the music of a slow future dying inside me. And the past very much alive, like shimmering beatific flowers, like luscious night thistles. The past is a changeable feast. Except it is a feast that eats and … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, no sleep till brooklyn, noir, novel, shadow play
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The Dark
Remember when we were kids and we’d sometimes have sleepovers and listen to the dark together? That’s what you called it Anya. Listening to the dark. And it was because of you Anya that I started naming different types of dark, … Continue reading
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Tagged alley, anthony distefano, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, no man's brooklyn, no sleep till brooklyn, noir, novel, shadow play
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No Man’s Brooklyn
Cover reveal for my fourth novel. Coming soon from CSF Publishing.
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Tagged Brooklyn, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, Literary, no sleep till brooklyn, novel, Prose
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Speakeasy
Dreams are like speakeasies for the soul. A secret password so you can enter, unchecked moral boundaries allowing you to trespass and indulge freely in the vagrant and illicit, after hours pressing of bootleg vinyl that places scorched scarabs in … Continue reading
Flight of the Jackdaw
Grateful for the warm and heartfelt responses Izumi and I have been receiving to our recently released fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll. One of the reviews shared below: THE JACKDAW AND THE DOLL is that rare book for children … Continue reading
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Tagged fable, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, kafka, magical realism, new book, pen and ink, the jackdaw and the doll
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