A dialogue between author Greg Scorzo and reader Steven Lawrence. 

“A raw, philosophical dive into love’s messy reality—unflinching, dark, and unapologetically human.”

Unlike typical romance novels, LOVE BEFORE COVID is a dialogue-driven exploration of human flaws and ideologies, blending fiction with metaphysical inquiry. It’s not about comfort; it’s about confrontation and insight.

Described as Traumatic (sur)realism, Love Before Covid takes the reader on a journey through the mind of Joe Pastorius; jazz fan, poet, and victim of horrendous sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother.

A novelised experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze.

” Divided into five parts, and mainly consisting of dialogues between character pairs, the book is a hefty tome which reads surprisingly quickly. The dialogues, somewhat script-like, make it completely accessible to anyone. It’s a work of fiction but some aspects of the dialogues scream with bitter realism …This is a book which intrigues, revolts, repulses, stimulates, in parts a stream of consciousness, in others, a metaphysical treatise on contemporary discourse in our media, universities and homes. To read this book is to experience being a silent ghost, haunting bedrooms, living rooms and coffee shops, watching and listening to the most intimate details of conversations spoken by others …This is a challenging book, one not easy to forget. Dazzling in its originality and depth, it’s like nothing you have ever read before or will read again. Unless it is written by Greg Scorzo.”

Karen Harradine - political commentator and author.

also available as a podcast:

AUDIOBOOM CHANNEL - listen on your favourite platform - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer and more.

LOVE BEFORE COVID PODCAST CHANNEL

https://audioboom.com/channels/5042465-the-love-before-covid-podcast-channel

AUTHORS WEBSITE

https://gregscorzo.com

X - @GregScorzo

Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/cultureontheoffensive

Insta @gregscorzo

Threads - gregscorzo

BUY LOVE BEFORE COVID ON

https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid

https://amzn.eu/d/9xqo7Xs

Available on kindle -

https://amzn.eu/d/4f4tPYt

Ebook versions - Apple Books,Google play, Kobo.

Author pages

Troubador Press https://troubador.co.uk/author/greg-scorzo

Good Reads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22025371.GREG_SCORZO

AMAZON author

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B099PYZN1F/about

3. A dialogue between author Greg Scorzo and his cousin Nicholas Gallagher.

“A raw, philosophical dive into love’s messy reality—unflinching, dark, and unapologetically human.”

Unlike typical romance novels, LOVE BEFORE COVID is a dialogue-driven exploration of human flaws and ideologies, blending fiction with metaphysical inquiry. It’s not about comfort; it’s about confrontation and insight.

Described as Traumatic (sur)realism, Love Before Covid takes the reader on a journey through the mind of Joe Pastorius; jazz fan, poet, and victim of horrendous sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother.

A novelised experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze.

” Divided into five parts, and mainly consisting of dialogues between character pairs, the book is a hefty tome which reads surprisingly quickly. The dialogues, somewhat script-like, make it completely accessible to anyone. It’s a work of fiction but some aspects of the dialogues scream with bitter realism …This is a book which intrigues, revolts, repulses, stimulates, in parts a stream of consciousness, in others, a metaphysical treatise on contemporary discourse in our media, universities and homes. To read this book is to experience being a silent ghost, haunting bedrooms, living rooms and coffee shops, watching and listening to the most intimate details of conversations spoken by others …This is a challenging book, one not easy to forget. Dazzling in its originality and depth, it’s like nothing you have ever read before or will read again. Unless it is written by Greg Scorzo.”

Karen Harradine - political commentator and author.

also available as a podcast:

AUDIOBOOM CHANNEL - listen on your favourite platform - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer and more.

LOVE BEFORE COVID PODCAST CHANNEL

https://audioboom.com/channels/5042465-the-love-before-covid-podcast-channel

AUTHORS WEBSITE

https://gregscorzo.com

X - @GregScorzo

Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/cultureontheoffensive

Insta @gregscorzo

Threads - gregscorzo

BUY LOVE BEFORE COVID ON

https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid

https://amzn.eu/d/9xqo7Xs

Available on kindle -

https://amzn.eu/d/4f4tPYt

Ebook versions - Apple Books,Google play, Kobo.

Author pages

Troubador Press https://troubador.co.uk/author/greg-scorzo

Good Reads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22025371.GREG_SCORZO

AMAZON author

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B099PYZN1F/about

2. A dialogue between author Greg Scorzo and reader Carrina Murphy. 

“A raw, philosophical dive into love’s messy reality—unflinching, dark, and unapologetically human.”

Unlike typical romance novels, LOVE BEFORE COVID is a dialogue-driven exploration of human flaws and ideologies, blending fiction with metaphysical inquiry. It’s not about comfort; it’s about confrontation and insight.

Described as Traumatic (sur)realism, Love Before Covid takes the reader on a journey through the mind of Joe Pastorius; jazz fan, poet, and victim of horrendous sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother.

A novelised experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze. 

” Divided into five parts, and mainly consisting of dialogues between character pairs, the book is a hefty tome which reads surprisingly quickly. The dialogues, somewhat script-like, make it completely accessible to anyone. It’s a work of fiction but some aspects of the dialogues scream with bitter realism …This is a book which intrigues, revolts, repulses, stimulates, in parts a stream of consciousness, in others, a metaphysical treatise on contemporary discourse in our media, universities and homes. To read this book is to experience being a silent ghost, haunting bedrooms, living rooms and coffee shops, watching and listening to the most intimate details of conversations spoken by others …This is a challenging book, one not easy to forget. Dazzling in its originality and depth, it’s like nothing you have ever read before or will read again. Unless it is written by Greg Scorzo.”

Karen Harradine - political commentator and author.

also available as a podcast: 

AUDIOBOOM CHANNEL - listen on your favourite platform - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer and more.

LOVE BEFORE COVID PODCAST CHANNEL

https://audioboom.com/channels/5042465-the-love-before-covid-podcast-channel

AUTHORS WEBSITE

https://gregscorzo.com

X - @GregScorzo

Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/cultureontheoffensive

Insta @gregscorzo

Threads - gregscorzo

BUY LOVE BEFORE COVID ON 

https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid 

https://amzn.eu/d/9xqo7Xs

Available on kindle - 

https://amzn.eu/d/4f4tPYt

Ebook versions - Apple Books,Google play, Kobo.

Author pages

Troubador Press https://troubador.co.uk/author/greg-scorzo

Good Reads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22025371.GREG_SCORZO

AMAZON author 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B099PYZN1F/about

1. A dialogue between Author Greg Scorzo and fan of the book, Karen Harradine.

“A raw, philosophical dive into love’s messy reality—unflinching, dark, and unapologetically human.”

Unlike typical romance novels, it’s a dialogue-driven exploration of human flaws and ideologies, blending fiction with metaphysical inquiry. It’s not about comfort; it’s about confrontation and insight.

Described as Traumatic (sur)realism, Love Before Covid takes the reader on a journey through the mind of Joe Pastorius; jazz fan, poet, and victim of horrendous sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother.

A novelised experimental and extreme collection of real-time dialogues, traversing a complex moral maze.

” Divided into five parts, and mainly consisting of dialogues between character pairs, the book is a hefty tome which reads surprisingly quickly. The dialogues, somewhat script-like, make it completely accessible to anyone. It’s a work of fiction but some aspects of the dialogues scream with bitter realism …This is a book which intrigues, revolts, repulses, stimulates, in parts a stream of consciousness, in others, a metaphysical treatise on contemporary discourse in our media, universities and homes. To read this book is to experience being a silent ghost, haunting bedrooms, living rooms and coffee shops, watching and listening to the most intimate details of conversations spoken by others …This is a challenging book, one not easy to forget. Dazzling in its originality and depth, it’s like nothing you have ever read before or will read again. Unless it is written by Greg Scorzo.”

Karen Harradine - political commentator and author.

 "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

 https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid

https://amzn.eu/d/9xqo7Xs

Available on kindle -

https://amzn.eu/d/4f4tPYt

Ebook versions - Apple Books,Google play, Kobo.

Troubador Press https://troubador.co.uk/author/greg-scorzo

Good Reads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22025371.GREG_SCORZO

AMAZON author

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B099PYZN1F/about

YOU TUBE CHANNEL@gregscorzo GREG SCORZO - Author - Writer - Podcasts - Events

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASbIhvUni4ESx2DhaJ5esA

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZyPzVnhlANimt-lCQK2_FfawgmDztze

BOOK TALKS PLAYLIST

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZyPzVnhlANSjhu5I8DDY9F9hXhK93dy

https://audioboom.com/channels/5057562-the-art-of-thinking-with-greg-scorzo

A FEATURE FILM FOR YOUR EARS

Taken from 3 chapters of Greg Scorzo's debut novel LOVE BEFORE COVID>

This unique listening experience, we are taken on a journey through the turbulent love life of our protagonist Joe, via his romantic relationships with two different women, Janet and Lorraine. This is done by eavesdropping on real-time exchanges between the 3 characters. How to navigate that journey, the listener has to decide on their own. Beware, this is not a happy gallop through a RomCom.

LOVE BEFORE COVID by Greg Scorzo  - A raw, philosophical dive into love’s messy reality—unflinching, dark, and unapologetically human. Unlike typical romance novels, LOVE BEFORE COVID is a dialogue-driven exploration of human flaws and ideologies, blending fiction with metaphysical inquiry. It’s not about comfort; it’s about confrontation and insight.”

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

 https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid

https://amzn.eu/d/9xqo7Xs

Available on kindle -

https://amzn.eu/d/4f4tPYt

Ebook versions - Apple Books,Google play, Kobo.

Troubador Press https://troubador.co.uk/author/greg-scorzo

Good Reads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22025371.GREG_SCORZO

AMAZON author

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B099PYZN1F/about

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASbIhvUni4ESx2DhaJ5esA

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZyPzVnhlANimt-lCQK2_FfawgmDztze

BOOK TALKS PLAYLIST

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZyPzVnhlANSjhu5I8DDY9F9hXhK93dy

DIALOGUES BETWEEN AUTHOR GREG SCORZO AND ASSORTED READERS.  

This Audio Play is not exactly fiction and not exactly philosophy, but something in between. Examining Love through the Shadow side of Love is both deeply disturbing and enlightening.

In this chapter we listen to Joe and Janet exploring the paradox of rejecting conditional love.

A FEATURE FILM FOR YOUR EARS

Taken from 3 chapters of Greg Scorzo's debut novel LOVE BEFORE COVID

This unique listening experience, we are taken on a journey through the turbulent love life of our protagonist Joe, via his romantic relationships with two different women, Janet and Lorraine. This is done by eavesdropping on real-time exchanges between the 3 characters. How to navigate that journey, the listener has to decide on their own. Beware, this is not a happy gallop through a RomCom.

THE LOVE BEFORE COVID audioplay is written, devised, directed and scored by philosopher Dr Greg Scorzo. It stars Daniel Ashman and Sarah Dalzell and is narrated by Chris Conway, and produced by Lizzie Soden. 

LOVE BEFORE COVID by Greg Scorzo  - A raw, philosophical dive into love’s messy reality—unflinching, dark, and unapologetically human. Unlike typical romance novels, LOVE BEFORE COVID is a dialogue-driven exploration of human flaws and ideologies, blending fiction with metaphysical inquiry. It’s not about comfort; it’s about confrontation and insight.”

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

 https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid 

https://amzn.eu/d/9xqo7Xs

Available on kindle - 

https://amzn.eu/d/4f4tPYt

Ebook versions - Apple Books,Google play, Kobo.

Troubador Press https://troubador.co.uk/author/greg-scorzo

Good Reads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22025371.GREG_SCORZO

AMAZON author 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B099PYZN1F/about 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASbIhvUni4ESx2DhaJ5esA

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZyPzVnhlANimt-lCQK2_FfawgmDztze

BOOK TALKS PLAYLIST 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZyPzVnhlANSjhu5I8DDY9F9hXhK93dy

DIALOGUES BETWEEN AUTHOR GREG SCORZO AND ASSORTED READERS.  

In this chapter we are introduced to Joe’s relationship with Loraine, where he actually puts his Altruistic views of love into practice.

A FEATURE FILM FOR YOUR EARS

Taken from 3 chapters of Greg Scorzo's debut novel LOVE BEFORE COVID>

This unique listening experience, we are taken on a journey through the turbulent love life of our protagonist Joe, via his romantic relationships with two different women, Janet and Lorraine. This is done by eavesdropping on real-time exchanges between the 3 characters. How to navigate that journey, the listener has to decide on their own. Beware, this is not a happy gallop through a RomCom.

LOVE BEFORE COVID by Greg Scorzo  - A raw, philosophical dive into love’s messy reality—unflinching, dark, and unapologetically human. Unlike typical romance novels, LOVE BEFORE COVID is a dialogue-driven exploration of human flaws and ideologies, blending fiction with metaphysical inquiry. It’s not about comfort; it’s about confrontation and insight.”

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Carl Jung

 https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/love-before-covid

https://amzn.eu/d/9xqo7Xs

Available on kindle -

https://amzn.eu/d/4f4tPYt

Ebook versions - Apple Books,Google play, Kobo.

Troubador Press https://troubador.co.uk/author/greg-scorzo

Good Reads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22025371.GREG_SCORZO

AMAZON author

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B099PYZN1F/about

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASbIhvUni4ESx2DhaJ5esA

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZyPzVnhlANimt-lCQK2_FfawgmDztze

BOOK TALKS PLAYLIST

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZyPzVnhlANSjhu5I8DDY9F9hXhK93dy

DIALOGUES BETWEEN AUTHOR GREG SCORZO AND ASSORTED READERS.