Francesco Rizzuto

Ophelia by Freidrich Heyser (1857-1921) "Get thee to a nunnery...toot sweet" H amlet's tragic appeal to his doomed lady love has become...

Author derivative image. Source: Nicolas Solerieu on Upsplash Adriana’s family occupied a two-story wood frame house across the lane and...

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It's All About the Male Gaze "There was a man living in Babylon whose name was Joakim. He married the daughter of Hilkiah, named Susanna,...

Sometimes you need to borrow from the demon world... Photo credit: Alex Iby on Unsplash T he Island of Sicily is a place where educated...

According to Jorge Luis Borges, no one can know if the world is fantastic or real, or whether there is a difference between dreaming and...

M y partner loves to point out that I’m a negative person, and she’s right. Most of the time. The rest of the time she’s, well, she’s not...

A mong most intriguing mysteries of the art world is the disappearance of a horde of oil paintings executed in Spain during the run-up to...

Readers may recall my article entitled “Trump As Performance Artist” (www.francescorizzuto.com/post/trump-as-performance-artist). Well,...

The station chief is checking out his face in a cracked shaving mirror suspended from a nail in the peeling plaster wall of his hut,...

D onald J. Trump will be remembered for something more than having come back from the dead, politically speaking. He will go down in Art...

Patty has accepted an invitation to join Daniel and his friends for a Sunday afternoon junket to his family's farm outside Fargo. It´s...

Hi. I'm an indie author. If you read my blog entry WHY I HATE INDIE PUBLISHING (www.francescorizzuto.com/blog/why-i-hate-indie-publishing...

A cold front had suddenly blown in from Canada is what they were saying. I threw on a dark wool sweater and the blue stocking cap my...

“The artist’s view of life is the only possible one and should be applied to everything, most of all to religion and morality. Cavaliers...

"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer." Kurt Vonnegut I’m an Indie fiction author...

My late father was a veteran of the Second World War in Europe. He was quartermaster of Company B of the 242nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd...