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 Julia. Each day is the same: living...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Marco Pazzolini always dreamed of being a professional musician. Virtually overnight he found himself with a wife, a daughter, and a lucrative record deal.  He soon discovered that fame and celebrity...

Paris at the turn of the 21st century.  A New York City writer follows in the footsteps of his literary heroes only to discover the reality is far from the fantasy he pursues.  Falling in with a group...

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...

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 classmates, peers and neighborhood bullies....

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,...

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...

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...