Joe De Quattro is an American fiction writer. The pilot episode, "Bastard Out of California", to his television series SIXTY FINGERS recently was selected to the Capital Fund Screenplay competition's Hot 100 List, and his short story, "Following Calvino", published in Italian Americana, was selected for their Recommended Reading Series. Other short stories have been published recently in New Letters, Italian Americana, Bayou Magazine, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Carolina Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Mystery Tribune, The Writing Disorder, Five2One Magazine, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Turnrow and Carve. Nominated for The Best American Short Stories and a Pushcart Prize. MFA in Fiction from Bennington College.

Novels

NOVELS

     Westlake's Collected Interruptions: Influenced by the fiction of Kafka, Barthelme, Calvino, and Borges, these linked stories follow Westlake, a young office clerk living on Mott Street in Manhattan with his wife in the early years of the 21st century, as he encounters a series of otherworldly events that go toward shaping his view of a fast changing society. Rooted in a realistic American landscape and the environs of New York City, each story incorporates political, historical, and natural events steeped in the magical.

     The Beginning of Movies: Cronkite Spinoza, an existentially troubled man, abruptly leaves Massachusetts for California by car and along the way encounters a woman who has a profound impact on his world view, an American West family's catastrophic guilt over their unwitting involvement in the early financial planning of one of the most tragic events of the 21st century, and sibling loyalty, all of which lead him to begin to see the importance and value in life.

     You Have To Die A Little To Make It That Fast: When Wallace Wallace, thirty-eight, begins to confront past financial irresponsibility, his desperate quest for redemption takes him on a journey through the seven deadly sins.

     Protto II: The gifts a father and a son, despite being at great odds within a female dominated family, can end up leaving one another.

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