Arthur Nersesian





Arthur Nersesian

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Arthur Nersesian is the author of eight novels, including The Fuck-Up (Akashic, 1997 & MTV Books/Simon & Schuster, 1999), Chinese Takeout (HarperCollins), Manhattan Loverboy (Akashic), Suicide Casanova (Akashic), dogrun (MTV Books/Simon & Schuster), and Unlubricated (HarperCollins). He is also the author of East Village Tetralogy, a collection of four plays. He lives in New York City.

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"Arthur Nersesian is a real New York writer. His novels are a celebration
of marginal characters living in the East Village and trying to survive.

Nersesian's books include The Fuck-Up, The East Village Tetralogy, and now just published by a small press based in New York, Manhattan Loverboy. Nersesian h...more


Average rating: 3.54 · 7,822 ratings · 527 reviews · 17 distinct works · Similar authors
The Fuck Up
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 4,121 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
Dogrun
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 988 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
Chinese Takeout
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 771 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
Suicide Casanova
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 515 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
Unlubricated
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
Manhattan Loverboy
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
The Swing Voter of Staten I...
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
Mesopotamia
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
The Sacrificial Circumcisio...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
East Village Tetralogy
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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“The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.”
Arthur Nersesian, Manhattan Loverboy

“Finally life becomes a very specific thing--and that's what we are. Ultimately, looking back, I'm beginning to believe that we need to always be fucked up. We need to always have some reason to hate ourselves, something to make us feel eternally incomplete.”
Arthur Nersesian, Dogrun

“Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity”
Arthur Nersesian, Dogrun

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