Experiential Fiction

The Writers

Frank Cassese

Born in New York City in 1974 and raised on Long Island, Frank Cassese’s writing is shaped by both the frenetic influence of urban life and the languid reality of the suburbs. After graduating with a BA in philosophy and writing his honors thesis on modern existentialism under the renowned Egyptologist Bob Brier, he lived and worked in France for a while before returning to New York. He received an MA in creative writing from The City College (CUNY), studying with the novelist Frederic Tuten, among others. Since then, he has taught English and writing at various universities in the New York area, including Long Island University and Baruch College. In addition to publishing a short story in the literary magazine The Body Divided, as well as an article in the French journal Revue de littérature contemporaine et expérimentale, the manuscripts of Frank Cassese’s novels Ocean Beach and The Virtuous Pagans have both been optioned for film development. He is currently at work on his new novel, The Stillest Hour.

Marcelline Delbecq has gradually moved away from photography to focus on the cinematic potential of writing. She uses both narrative and narrator (the voice) to create a singular world where a writing turned into sound generates a series of mental images which move back and forth between description and fiction. Her own voice — which she often uses in sound installations, films and readings — acts like a voice-over for various ‘invisible cinema’ projects where words, transformed into visions, call the whole act of beholding into question.
Her work has been shown in many group shows in France and Europe (Johann Konig gallery, Berlin, Kadist Foundation, Paris, Swiss Institute, New York …) She has been commissioned a new work for the Airs de Paris exhibition at Centre Pompidou (April 2007) and will be featured as part of Art in General Audio in the Elevator program in April in New York.