Julian Gallo

• Jan-2011
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What happens when an American poet, a Uruguayan painter, a Peruvian chef, a Syrian belly dancer, an Algerian musician and an Italian religious fundamentalist are all searching for meaning and their lives intersect on the streets of Paris? "NaderÌa" ...

• Jun-2011
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"November Rust is an exhilerating experiment when it comes to leaving behind the cosy confines of the tried and tested prose routes. Various writing styles are peppered throughout the book between the more straightforward narrative structure. This do...

• Sep-2011
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Being yourself in a sea of mindless cretins is the hardest battle any kid could face. September 1982. In a working class neighborhood in Queens, New York, sixteen year old Nico Razza is a perpetual outcast, often victim to the taunts of his classmate...

• Jul-2012
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What would they do once the fire goes out? Two lifelong friends, Gianni Mazzaro and Matteo Radicci, set off on their summer travel, an annual ritual since their college days. This year it's the Mediterranean, the first stop being a small village in t...

• Jul-2013
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It is the twilight of a continent. After centuries of exploration, innovation, invention and colonial conquests it now faces bank failures, high unemployment and economic collapse. In a cold, blustery corner of Europe - the city of Budapest - a group...

• Jan-2014
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A lowlife becomes obsessed with a prostitute with a unique body tattoo; A young man travels to Morocco with the idea of "disappearing" into the Sahara; Two G.I.s discover the intricacies of war; A coffee shop owner befriends a homeless poet; A dwarf ...

• Feb-2015
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Former playwright and current high school drama teacher Dante Russo gets word that his friend and mentor is on his deathbed. Jacques Martre had always been an inspiration to him and over the years they had established a very strong friendship. Knowin...

• Jan-2016
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""Sometimes you put up walls not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down"" - Socrates Marco, a former musician; Christos, a life long man of the sea; and Jenna, Marco's estranged daughter. Their three lives converge on a qu...

• Oct-2017
• / Literary
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New York City, sometime in the 1990s. On his way to a Brooklyn loft party, Julio is about to spend yet another drunken evening that will forever change him. Through a series of flashbacks, childhood and adolescent memories, fever dreams, and drunken ...

• Dec-2017
• / Literary
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Julio returns, only this time we find him revealing a dark secret from his childhood which has affected his love life, his friendships, even his interaction with psychotherapists. Now revealing all to yet another one, he finds himself distracted by h...

• Jan-2018
• / Literary
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Surreal flash fictions, vignettes, or perhaps dreams. Read individually, they are snapshots into the subconscious mind. Read linearly, or if one dips in wherever they so choose, a peculiar narrative begins to emerge, where pop culture, the mundane, a...

• Jan-2018
• / Literary
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Surreal flash fictions, vignettes, or perhaps dreams. Read individually, they are snapshots into the subconscious mind. Read linearly, or if one dips in wherever they so choose, a peculiar narrative begins to emerge, where pop culture, the mundane, a...

• Feb-2018
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A New York City writer hops back and forth through moments in his life. Over the course of one weekend afternoon, as he and his wife care for their newborn daughter, he tries to put the pieces together in order to figure out how he arrived at this pa...

• Mar-2018
• / Literary
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Sometime between President Carter’s ‘Malaise’ and the dawn of the Reagan era, Queens, New York. A generation of mostly ‘latch key kids’ find themselves on their own, indulging in every vice available to them. Drugs, music, sex, it’s all t...

• Apr-2018
• / Literary
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New York City, 1979. Nadja -- a new immigrant from Poland, thirty years old, recently divorced, and down to her last dollar -- wonders how she’s going to make ends meet and care for her children. He is a thirteen year old boy, sitting alone in ...

• May-2018
• / Literary
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Brandon and Olivia, two goth/emo kids alienated from their idyllic Long Island neighborhood, only have one another to depend on. Brandon’s parents are careerists, often too busy to pay any attention to him. Olivia is dealing with her abusive mother...

• Jun-2018
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Tunis, 1904. Ernesto Nicari, a laborer living among the Sicilian immigrant community in La Goulette, and his wife Luisa, dream of one day going to America. Unable to conceive children, they are destined to live a life together alone. Leyla is a seven...

• Jun-2018
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1997: A brash American journalist, Claudio Nicari, and his Tunisian colleague Sarah, go on assignment to interview the elusive and secretive Omar Abbadi, the spiritual leader and ‘Commander of The Faithful’ of a violent Islamist group called the ...

• Aug-2018
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Set amongst the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring’ in Tunis, Mariam, a young musician, secludes herself away in order to compose the music she long desires to create. 

Having recently returned home after a failed relationship with a fellow music...

• Sep-2018
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In this final novel of an informal quartet, begun with The Other Side of The Orange Grove, If The Full Moon Loves You, Why Worry About The Stars?, and Maqam, Diego Nicari, a travel writer, makes a sojourn to Tunis in order to research his family hist...

• Oct-2018
• / Literary
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Oliver is a translator in Paris working on a book by an obscure French author. A chance meeting of his friend's sister on the metro leads to a torrid affair. When he discovers that she lives in the very neighborhood, and building, used in Bertolucci'...

• Nov-2018
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Late 1990s New York City. A poor and desperate would be novelist navigates the minefield of a dysfunctional relationship with an equally dysfunctional painter named Juliana. Each day is the same: living in the searing heat of his dilapidated apar...