Arthur Nersesian is an American novelist, playwright, and poet. Nersesian is of Armenian and Irish descent. He was born and raised in New York City, and graduated from

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in Brooklyn, New York. His novels include ''The Fuck-up'', ''Manhattan Loverboy'', ''Dogrun'', ''Chinese Takeout'', ''Suicide Casanova,'' and ''Unlubricated.'' He has also published a collection of plays, ''East Village Tetralogy.'' He has written three books of poems and one book of plays. In 2005, Nersesian received the Anahid Literary Prize for

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for his novel ''Unlubricated.'' Nersesian is the managing editor of the literary magazine, ''The Portable Lower East Side'', and was an English teacher at

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, in

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. His novel ''Dogrun'' was adapted into the 2016 feature film '' My Dead Boyfriend''. His novel ''The Five Books of (Robert) Moses'' is 1,506 pages long, took him more than 25 years to write, and was published on July 28, 2020.

Bibliography

Novels

*''The Fuck-Up'' (1997) {New York]: MTV / Pocket Books *''Manhattan Loverboy'' (2000) New York:

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*''Dogrun'' (2000) New York: Pocket Books *''Suicide Casanova'' (2002) New York: Akashic Books *''Chinese Takeout'' (2003) New York: Perennial *''Unlubricated'' (2004) New York: Perennial *''The Swing Voter of Staten Island'' (2007) New York: Akashic Books *''The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx'' (2008) *''Mesopotamia'' (2010) New York: Akashic Books *''Gladyss of the Hunt'' (2014) Portland: Dark Passage *''The Five Books of (Robert) Moses'' (2020) New York: Akashic Books *''Shit Show'' (2024) New York: Eponymous Books LLC

Plays

*East Village Tetralogy (1995) New York: Bookstreet *Poetry *New York Complaints hapbook(1993, Portable Press) *Tompkins Square & Other Ill-Fated Riots hapbook(1990, Portable Press) *Tremors and Faultlines: Photopoems of San Francisco (1995, Portable Press)

Foreign editions

''Staten Island'' is the Spanish version of ''The Swing Voter of Staten Island'', published by Alpha Decay in 2010.

Interviews

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External links

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Hear Nersesian read from ''The Fuck-Up'' on Salon.comBook review at bookslut.com

Tenement
Painting by Nersesian at '' Smyles & Fish''
Arthur Nersesian - New York's Best Kept Secret - Broowaha

References

1958 births Living people 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American poets 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American poets American male dramatists and playwrights American male novelists American people of Irish descent American male poets American writers of Armenian descent Hostos Community College faculty Novelists from New York (state) Writers from New York City {{US-novelist-1950s-stub