On loan to California: Author Joe Di Prisco brings Brooklyn storytelling roads west

Sep 08, 2020 376

BY: Ian S. Maloney

When he was ten years old, Joe Di Prisco was walking toward his grandparents’ East Islip farm with his father and brother when they saw that the house was surrounded by police. Joe’s dad turned and said: “Go back to the house and don’t take sh*t from nobody” and then he jetted off into the woods. Joe’s dad was a con man, bookmaker and informer, now in flight from both the FBI and police.

Months later, the family was off to California without explanation, meeting up with his dad at a gas station and beginning a new life on the west coast. Joe’s life as a writer launched right then.

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SOURCE: https://brooklyneagle.com

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