Arthur Nersesian

Arthur Nersesian is an American novelist, playwright, and poet.

Arthur Nersesian
Nersesian in September 2007
Born	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist playwright poet
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Midwood High School

Nersesian is of Armenian and Irish descent. He was born and raised in New York City, and graduated from Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York.^[1]

His novels include The Fuck-up,^[2] 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 Armenian Literature for his novel Unlubricated. Nersesian is the managing editor of the literary magazine, The Portable Lower East Side, and was an English teacher at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, in South Bronx.^[3] His novel Dogrun was adapted into the 2016 feature film My Dead Boyfriend.^[4] 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.^[5]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Fuck-Up (1997) {New York]: MTV / Pocket Books^[6]
• Manhattan Loverboy (2000) New York: Akashic Books^[7]
• 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 [chapbook] (1993, Portable Press)
• Tompkins Square & Other Ill-Fated Riots [chapbook] (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

• Crystal, Garry (Fall 2007). "An Interview with Arthur Nersesian". Tunrow. 5 (1).
• "Globalization of the Worst Kind". 3:AM Magazine. October 8, 2007. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
• "Free Williamsburg - Arthur Nersesian". www.freewilliamsburg.com. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013. Retrieved 2015-11-23.

External links

• Arthur Nersesian's home page^[usurped]
• Hear Nersesian read from The Fuck-Up on Salon.com
• interview at FreeWilliamsburg.com
• Book review at bookslut.com Archived 2019-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Tenement Painting by Nersesian at Smyles & Fish
• Arthur Nersesian - New York's Best Kept Secret - Broowaha Archived 2013-07-26 at the Wayback Machine