Arthur Nersesian

A dark comedy of urban life features an aspiring, but incompetent, writer, who is dumped by his girlfriend, fired for asking for a raise, and stumbles into a robbery

The Fuck Up

Corporate attorney Leslie Cauldwell is middle-aged, handsome, and rich, but has only a few swipes left on his mental Metrocard. During a rough sex session, he garrotes his beloved wife; now he's an officially designated "sex offender," off on a bender, looking for love in all the wrong places. Twenty years earlier, when his office was high above the pornographic purgatory of Times Square, Leslie became involved with the adult-film star, Sky Pacifica. She needed a refuge, and he was ripe for the using. Following a brief fling, each went their own way. Two decades later, in 2001, Leslie is still working in Times Square--recently sanitized with its ESPN Zone and MTV window--and fraught with guilt about the "accident" with his wife. Like Jay Gatsby pursuing an erotic American dream, Leslie, with the help of a private detective, hunts down Sky Pacifica, his latter-day Daisy. Across a landscape of S&M mistresses and porn producers, from L.A. of the '80s to New York of the new millennium, we see a modern-day tale of love and loss, innocence and corruption, crime and redemption.

Suicide Casanova

A dramatic, playful, brutal, sweeping, and always entertaining reimagining of New York City history, presaging today's political tyranny.

The Five Books of (Robert) Moses

Mary Bellanova's directionless life takes on new meaning after her boyfriend, Primo, suddenly drops dead, and Mary is forced to navigate the complexities and challenges of modern urban life as she searches for the best place to scatter Primo's ashes, copes with his crazy mother and ex-girlfriends, and takes in his disturbed dog. Original.

Dogrun

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Fuck-up

"Nersesian's The Fuck-Up is a Trainspotting without drugs, New York style."--Hal Sirowitz, author of Mother Said

The Fuck-up

A paranoid delusion and fantastic comedy in the service of social realism. This is the tale of an orphan whose only known background is that of the city itself, a scaffold-covered grid sewn together with 'Do Not Cross' tape. Here Love is expressed through corrective surgery, and families meet across boardroom tables.

Manhattan Loverboy

The first book of plays from New York City's most respected literary chronicler

Four Plays

East Village Tetralogy

Hundewiese.

mary bellanova came home to her east village apartment, cooked dinner, and fought with her boyfriend, primo. but soon mary realized that primo's silence in front of the tv set was more than just one of his bad moods: primo was actually dead. other guys had abandoned mary before,but primo's exit was by far the most unique. and suddenly mary's life -- defined so far by a string of temp jobs and unfinished short stories -- takes off on a tantalizing adventure as she follows a trail of primo's ex-lovers. arthur nersesian, who created a howling new york odyssey in his smash hit the fuck-up, captures the spirit of the city itself -- jolting and full of surprise -- in this powerful new novel edged with black humor and poignancy.

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