Julian Gallo: 18 books

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 there for the taking, since no one is looking. It...

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 was a far cry from how he ever imagined it would be and on the brink of popularity, gave it all up...

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 the mountains of southern Italy...

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, who often body shames her and chastises her over...

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 of expatriate American artists, he soon discovers that things aren’t really much different ...

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 particular moment in time. The presence of a child...

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, and the horrors of contemporary existence walk hand in hand toward an unexpected — and sometimes humorous — place. 

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 musician at a conservatory in Paris, Mariam seeks the advice...

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.  Steeped in Punk Rock culture, he is not only rebelling against society, authority and his peers,...

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 his intense attraction to her. As he navigates the...

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?  “Nadería” is a story about failed hopes, unrealized...

*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 seventeen year old Berber girl who ran away from home...

*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 reverie, Julio reflects on his choices in life,...

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. Knowing that he doesn’t have much time, he travels to...