Arthur Nersesian
Nersesian in September 2007
Nersesian in September 2007
BornNew York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • playwright
  • poet
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMidwood High School

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 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

Plays

Foreign editions

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

Interviews

References

  1. ^ Gibberd, Ben (12 September 2008). "Writing the Myth of Moses". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Stevens, Andrew (October 8, 2007). "Globalization of the Worst Kind". 3:AM Magazine. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  3. ^ Epstein, Daniel (Nov 26, 2003). "Interview: Arthur Nersesian". Suicide Girls. Retrieved September 10, 2012. Nersesian has become an outspoken advocate of millennials and their effect on New York City.
  4. ^ Myers, Kimber (3 November 2016). "Review No life or laughs to the dated comedy 'My Dead Boyfriend'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  5. ^ Trachtenberg, Jeffrey (19 April 2020). "This Book Isn't 'War and Peace.' It's Bigger". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  6. ^ Stevens, Andrew (October 8, 2007). "Globalization of the Worst Kind". 3:AM Magazine. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  7. ^ Laurence, Alexander. "Arthur Nersesian". Free Williamsburg. Retrieved September 10, 2012.[permanent dead link]