Tag Archives: Review

The Last Furies

Posted on April 20, 2026 by John Biscello

Print edition available through Lost Telegram Press.Audio-book edition (narrated by the author, with a preface by the publisher) available through Google Books, Booktopia, Audiobooks Now, Bookmate, Downpour, Libro F.M., Audiobooks.com, and many other outlets, including Lost Telegram Press.

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This Book Doesn’t Resolve Itself

Posted on April 16, 2026 by John Biscello

“So many novels are built around control. Even when they deal with rupture, they shape it into something we can grapple with. Events lead somewhere. Meaning accumulates in a way that can be tracked. By the end, the reader understands … Continue reading →

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Time Tracks

Posted on April 1, 2026 by John Biscello

Thank you Cristina Deptula for this advance review of No One Dreams in Color appearing in Synchronized Chaos, an “interdisciplinary journal of art, culture, science, music, and literature.” Read the full review here.

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Literary Yard

Posted on February 8, 2026 by John Biscello

Dianne Reeves Angel’s review now live on Literary Yard, an “e-journal that aims at widening literary horizons by identifying and featuring the best literary works awaiting publication.”

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Gray Matter

Posted on February 5, 2026 by John Biscello

Thank you to Dianne Reeves Angel for her advance review of No One Dreams in Color. The full review will be published in an upcoming edition of The Literary Yard. Excerpt below: “This is not a novel driven by plot … Continue reading →

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Furies in Chaos

Posted on November 2, 2025 by John Biscello

Candice Louisa Daquin’s insightful review of The Last Furies published in the November issue of Synchronized Chaos (an interdisciplinary journal of art, music, culture, science, and literature). Excerpt from the review: “Viola felt as if she were watching a scene … Continue reading →

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Matches in the Moonlight

Posted on September 26, 2025 by John Biscello

Deeply appreciated Candice Lousia Daquin’s incisive and in-depth review of The Last Furies. Excerpt of the review below: “With a background in screen-writing, these influences are Biscello’s nod to cinema and emphasis on art and visual components, often eschewing traditional … Continue reading →

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Review of The Last Furies

Posted on August 29, 2025 by John Biscello

Thank you, Louis Greenstein, for the thoughtful advance review of my forthcoming novel, The Last Furies (Lost Telegram Press). Full review below: John Biscello’s astonishing work, The Last Furies, is a vaudeville routine wrapped around a radio drama, tucked into … Continue reading →

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Review Tales

Posted on July 17, 2024 by John Biscello

Excerpt from Jeyran Main’s recently published review of The Jackdaw and the Doll on “Review Tales.” “The Jackdaw and the Doll is an ode to the storyteller’s journey, a celebration of the art that arises from the deepest wells of … Continue reading →

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Baffling the Sphinx

Posted on August 14, 2022 by John Biscello

The word is my fourth dimension–Clarice Lispector And on the eighth and endless day, where the bottomless hallelujah meets Ouroboros, God created Clarice Lispector. Maybe. Maybe the music of that name was more pure music and vivid living syntax, and … Continue reading →

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