<div>&ldquo;Thoroughly entertaining, with an offbeat sense of humor . . . There&rsquo;s a solid mystery here, underneath the goofiness&rdquo; (Booklist). Things have not been going well for journalist Sandy Bloomgarten. Her job went down the drain and her marriage quickly followed. After a lengthy bender, she awakens one morning to the stark realization that she is flat broke. Nonetheless, she&rsquo;s still a crack reporter, and when a tabloid offers her a freelance assignment in Memphis&mdash;just a stone&rsquo;s throw from her childhood home in Mesopotamia, Tennessee&mdash;she takes it. Though sent there for one story, she winds up tracking down another: someone is killing Elvis impersonators who perform at the annual Sing-the-King festival. The few available clues lead her to several unlikely characters: a cheating local minister constantly on the make, a strange band of misfits who only cover Elvis tunes, and a small-town private eye who blew himself up along with his crystal meth lab. As Sandy&rsquo;s investigation closes, she realizes that she is sitting on what could be the story of the century. The only problem is she can never reveal what she has found . . . &ldquo;The immortal shadow of Elvis Presley gyrates wildly through this satiric exploration of America&rsquo;s fascination with tabloid journalism.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Mesopotamia

<div>&ldquo;Nersesian is this generation&rsquo;s Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi&rdquo; (Jennifer Belle, author of High Maintenance). These four sharply witty plays&mdash;three of which have been staged off Broadway&mdash;come from an award-winning playwright, poet, and novelist who has gained a cult following in his native New York City and beyond, and earned a reputation as &ldquo;one of the wittiest and most perceptive chroniclers of downtown life&rdquo; (Time Out New York). Included in this volume are: <ul><li>Rent Control</li><li>Writer&rsquo;s Bloc</li><li>Plea Bargains</li><li>Spare Change</li></ul> &ldquo;Award-winning playwright Arthur Nersesian has woven an effective dramatic form through four plays, each quite funny in its own way. Each yields very powerful human results while subtly investigating the major social issues of our time.&rdquo; &mdash;Evangelina Borges, Trying Time Press Named Best Indie Novel of the Year by the Montreal Mirror</div>

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East Village Tetralogy

<div>A novel of a young man&rsquo;s adventures in New York City by an author who is &ldquo;part Lewis Carroll, part Franz Kafka&rdquo; (Library Journal). This tale introduces us to Joey, a New York City graduate student. Brought up by emotionally&mdash;and physically&mdash;distant adoptive parents, he has no idea what his heritage really is, though he did decide to try being Jewish after being dragged into a mitzvah tank by a Hasid. Now he has worked his way through most of a graduate history program at Columbia University&mdash;but when his academic fellowship from a mysterious benefactor is suddenly rescinded, he will be led into a furious and bizarre quest&mdash;in a novel from an acclaimed author praised for his ability to blend dark, fantastic satire with genuine human feeling. &ldquo;Paranoid fantasy and fantastic comedy in the service of social realism . . . At its best, [Manhattan Loverboy] assays the grittiest, funkiest urban-magic-realism yet, creating a satirical fiction avidly in search of the truth it&rsquo;s all too aware is even stranger than itself.&rdquo; &mdash;Downtown &ldquo;Nersesian renders Gotham&rsquo;s unique cocktail of wealth, poverty, crime, glamour, and brutality spectacularly . . . But in the end, it is Joey&rsquo;s search for his own identity that makes this book a winner.&rdquo; &mdash;Rain Taxi Review of Books on East Village Tetralogy</div>

Manhattan Loverboy

<div>Arthur Nersesian's underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life. This is the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He's a perennial couch-surfer, an aspiring writer searching for himself in spite of himself, and he's just trying to survive. But life has other things in store for the fuck-up. From being dumped by his girlfriend to getting fired for asking for a raise, from falling into a robbery to posing as a gay man to keep his job at a porno theater, the fuck-up's tragi-comedy is perfectly realized by Arthur Nersesian, who manages to create humor and suspense out of urban desperation. "Read it and howl," says Bruce Benderson (author of User), "and be glad it didn't happen to you."</div>

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Books By Arthur Nersesian (4 Books)

Mesopotamia

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The Fuck Up

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Books By Arthur Nersesian (4 Books)

Mesopotamia

East Village Tetralogy

Manhattan Loverboy

The Fuck Up

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