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Tag Archives: storytelling
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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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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Jackdaw and the Doll (2nd Edition)
After a brief period of being out of print, a new edition of The Jackdaw and the Doll is now available. “Yokoyama’s graphite illustrations …fashion an understated, symbolic elegy for a famous literary voice … Poetic descriptions of Kafka’s storytelling deftly capture … Continue reading
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Tagged art, fable, imagination, jackdaw and the doll, kafka, Literary, magical realism, pen and ink, Publication, shadows, storytelling, sumi-e
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Road
Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose
Tagged road, Spoken Word, story, storytelling, words
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Story
Posted in Audio, photography, Poetry, Prose
Tagged Poetry, slow burn, Spoken Word, story, storytelling, words
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Lasting Born
Once upon a time is a necessary mirage. Flesh born of lighted word and bones fulfilling myth. Stories are the means to endlessness. They go on and on. We go on and on carried along by stories carrying within them … Continue reading
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Tagged alchemy, excerpt, myth, Poetry, Prose, story, storytelling
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Jackdaw and the Doll
Coming March 2021: The Jackdaw and the Doll (written by John Biscello, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. THE JACKDAW AND THE DOLL: K. leads a double life. Timid office clerk by day, storyteller by night. But not just any storyteller. Transforming … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, Press, Prose, Publications
Tagged CSF Publishing, fable, izumi yokoyama, jackdaw and the doll, John Biscello, kafka, new book, Publication, storytelling
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Tale-Spin
There’s something funny, and a little lonely, about being the idiot protagonist in the tales you endlessly narrate to yourself, as if you were somehow plagiarizing the stars to round out your silence with immaterial gains amounting to destiny, if … Continue reading
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Tagged John Biscello, poem, Poetry, storytelling, tale told by an idiot
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