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. 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 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 the South Bronx. 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 will be published on July 28, 2020. Bibliography Novels The Fuck-Up (1997) {New York]: MTV / Pocket Books Manhattan Loverboy (2000) New York: Akashic Books 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 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 External links Arthur Nersesian's home page Hear Nersesian read from The Fuck-Up on Salon.com interview at FreeWilliamsburg.com Book review at bookslut.com Tenement Painting by Nersesian at Smyles & Fish Arthur Nersesian - New York's Best Kept Secret - Broowaha References 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists American writers of Armenian descent American people of Irish descent City University of New York faculty Writers from New York City 1958 births Living people 20th-century American poets 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American poets American male poets American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers