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Tag Archives: novel
No Man’s Brooklyn
I have started working on my new novel: No Man’s Brooklyn. A return to the bones of childhood, and to tangled roots. A return to the gritty lore of Bensonhurst.
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Tagged Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, family, Italian-American, John Biscello, Literary, no man's brooklyn, novel, preview
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Sculpting Fire
An excerpt from Nocturne Variations: It is like closing your eyes and trying to connect the dots. This is what Piers is thinking as she sculpts fire onto the blondegirl’s breasts. Her hands work over the cotton-knit … Continue reading
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Tagged excerpt, heather ross, John Biscello, Literary, nocturne variations, noir, novel, peter pan, piers, Surrealism
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As the World Nocturnes
I hereby invoke the blessings of the EverGreen Muses and Lit-Minded Gods as I seek a new publisher and send my “golem-baby” of a book out into the great wide world. Fare thee well, Nocturne! ABOUT: Dystopic Peter Pan meets … Continue reading
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Tagged book, coming of age, John Biscello, muses, nocturne variations, noir, novel, peter pan, Prose, publishing, Surrealism
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Birth of a Nocturne
Completed draft of my new novel, Nocturne Variations.
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Tagged Cinema, draft, John Biscello, Literary, manuscript, nocturne variations, novel, Prose, publishing, Surrealism
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Spring Dusting
As part of a Countdown Deal, the Kindle edition of my novel Raking the Dust will be available for $1.99, April 11-18. ABOUT: In this rogue’s tale, full of sound, fury, and erotic surrealism, we meet Alex Fillameno, a writer who has traded … Continue reading
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Tagged John Biscello, Literary, magical realism, New York, novel, Prose, Raking the Dust, San Francisco, Surrealism, Taos
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The Haunting of One’s Self
Review of Paul Auster’s 4 3 2 1, appearing in Riot Material. “He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. This network of times which approached one another, forked, … Continue reading
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Tagged 4 3 2 1, John Biscello, Literary, novel, paul auster, Prose, Review, riot material
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Busy Signal
Excerpt from Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale: There’s not really a name for what I do. I am not an investigative journalist, I am not a private eye. I am not a minstrel essayist. There are many things that I … Continue reading
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Tagged author, Broken Land a Brooklyn Tale, Brooklyn, coney island, John Biscello, Literary, New York, noir, novel, Prose, Surrealism
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Broken Land
Print edition of my first novel, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale has been re-released. ABOUT: A spectral, existential noir set against the aging irons of Coney Island and old guard lions of hip hop and silent film, Broken Land, a Brooklyn … Continue reading
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Tagged Bensonhurst, broken land, Brooklyn, coney island, existentialism, John Biscello, Literary, neo-noir, New York, noir, novel
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Raking the Dust
The Kindle edition of my novel Raking the Dust is now available on Amazon. ABOUT: In this rogue’s tale, full of sound, fury, and erotic surrealism, we meet Alex Fillameno, a writer who has traded in the machine-grind of New York for … Continue reading
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Tagged John Biscello, kindle, Literary, New York, novel, publishing, Raking the Dust, San Francisco, Surrealism, Taos
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Floor Plan
Photo shoot of novel-in-progress, Nocturne Variations
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Tagged blueprint, book, John Biscello, Literary, nocturne varations, novel, photo, process, work
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