Stories, reporting, and publications.
Across radio, magazines, newspapers, international journalism, and fiction, my work has explored society, culture, education, identity, and the shifting ways people interpret the world around them.
Radio author.
Journalist.
Published fiction and short stories.
International editorial experience.
From radio voices to published fiction.
My path has moved from local radio and music publishing in Bologna to international journalism in South Korea and Thailand, through Italian newspapers and long-form digital publishing focused on society, culture, and public life.
Alongside journalism, I have published fiction that ranges from social irony to dystopian imagination and short literary forms, keeping the same attention to people, language, and contemporary contradictions.
A chronological selection.
Editorial, radio, and reporting experiences across Italy, South Korea, Thailand, and the UK.
Bologna
RadioMusic
One of the earliest stages of my journalistic journey took place in Bologna through RadioMusic, a magazine dedicated to the world of radio and music. That experience helped shape my relationship with media language, editorial rhythm, music culture, and the connection between broadcasting and cultural storytelling.
South Korea
OhMyNews International
After moving to northern Italy, I collaborated with OhMyNews International between 2004 and 2005, one of the world’s earliest global experiments in citizen journalism, based in South Korea. That experience expanded my perspective on participatory media, global editorial exchange, and journalism shaped by this particular reality.
Bangkok
The Nation Junior
The experience at OhMyNews International later informed my reporting for The Nation Junior in Bangkok, where I covered cultural and educational topics from a European perspective for an Asian youth audience.
Milan
La Voce di Milano / La Voce d’Italia
Between 2006 and 2010, I wrote for La Voce di Milano and La Voce d’Italia, focusing on society, culture, and Italian public life. My collaboration with La Voce d’Italia also led me to BBC Three Counties Radio, where I joined Roberto Perrone’s program Mondo Italiano as a visiting host.
Digital
Fanpage
From 2009 to 2019, I collaborated with Fanpage d’Autore, contributing within a digital publishing environment that gave space to commentary, cultural analysis, and social observation.
Related Collaboration
Mondo Italiano · BBC Three Counties Radio
As an extension of my collaboration with La Voce d’Italia, I also took part in Roberto Perrone’s Mondo Italiano on BBC Three Counties Radio as a visiting host.
It added an international broadcasting dimension to my work, reconnecting journalism with the spoken medium that had marked my early years in radio.
Journalism as cultural translation.
Whether writing for radio, magazines, citizen journalism platforms, newspapers, or digital publications, the constant thread has been the attempt to interpret social change and make it readable across different communities and contexts.
Three works, three directions.
Three works that trace different narrative directions: digital alienation, dystopian resistance, and short-form social conscience.
Akkuaria Edizioni
Che verso hanno le tazzine da caffè?
Which way do the coffee cups face?
A witty and introspective social novel about alienation and digital identity in the early internet age. The protagonist, Luca, is a thirty-something research analyst whose life has grown monotonous and emotionally hollow.
Dissatisfied with his superficial job, disconnected relationships, and an increasingly image-driven society, he slips into the world of online chatrooms through his friend Tonino — a distraction that turns into an existential plunge into virtual connections and digital illusions, blurring the line between real and virtual life.
Peluso merges satire and psychology to critique the society of appearance and the emotional numbness of hyperconnectivity. A later updated version, Relazione complicata: Che verso hanno le tazzine da caffè? 2.0 (2013), returned to the same theme and expanded the reflection on digital relationships and social disillusionment.
0111 Edizioni
La città che brucia
The Burning City
A dystopian novel blending environmental collapse, political decay, and mythological allegory. Set in a bleak future version of Italy, especially its southern regions, the story follows Jenny and Mario, two sixteen-year-olds who leave the Underground, a network of subterranean shelters where people have retreated to escape the surface world.
Above them lies a vast toxic wasteland ruled by an elite group known only as “Them,” made uninhabitable by radiation, pollution, and warfare. Amid devastation, the protagonists discover a secret resistance movement fighting back against oppression — and the novel revives the Monaciello, a mischievous Neapolitan folk spirit, transforming legend into a symbol of hope and rebellion.
Through speculative fiction, Marcello builds a political and ecological allegory where environmental disaster merges with dictatorship and cultural amnesia, producing a dark coming-of-age odyssey shaped by science fiction, social critique, and Neapolitan myth.
Giulio Perrone Editore Lab
Rac-Corti · “Non capisco”
Mini stories for readers in a hurry
Rac-Corti: mini storie per chi va di fretta, edited by Andrea Careri and published in Rome in 2008, is a literary collection devoted to the art of the very short story — compact narrative moments distilled into just a few pages, bringing together micro-stories by emerging and independent Italian authors.
Marcello Peluso’s contribution, Non capisco (“I Don’t Understand”), is a brief yet powerful narrative dedicated to the innocent victims of the Camorra. Later released as a standalone eBook, it unfolds as the monologue of a young boy from the outskirts of Naples trying to make sense of life, injustice, and death in a region overshadowed by organized crime.
The refrain “non capisco” becomes a language of impotence and disillusionment. The Camorra is not represented through spectacle, but through its psychological and social aftermath: how it infiltrates ordinary life, corrodes trust, and weakens hope itself.
“Books as social listening.”
Whether the setting is a chatroom, a poisoned future, or the outskirts of Naples, these texts share the same impulse: to listen to what people become when systems fail them, isolate them, seduce them, or silence them.