Luca Dipierro

About Me

I am a writer, visual artist and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. My latest films are the documentaries I WILL SMASH YOU, 60 WRITERS/60 PLACES, and the full length cut-out animation DIECI TESTE. My art has been exhibited in galleries in the USA and in Italy. My short stories have been published in The New York Tyrant, Lamination Colony, Gigantic, Everyday Genius, No Colony, The Sages of Baltimore, Harp & Altar.
My novel in Italian La cadenza will be published by Madcap Collective at the beginning of 2011.

My website is www.lucadipierro.com
For some biscotti go to http://blackbiscotti.blogspot.com

My life is based on a true story.

Why do you write?

I write fiction. I write both in Italian and in English.
Sometime I write non-fiction.

Any favorite authors? Books?

I love the work of Jakov Lind, Harold Brodkey, Italo Calvino, Tommaso Landolfi, Robert Walser, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Georges Perec, Frank Stanford, Flannery O'Connor, Lydia Davis, Leni Zumas, Jacopone da Todi, Philip Roth, Giorgio Manganelli, Bertolt Brecht, Barry Hannah, Giacomo Leopardi, Edward Dahlberg, Michael Kimball, Derek Raymond, Luciano di Samostata, Francis Ponge, Francois Rabelais.