Arthur Nersesian is an American

United States

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 novelist, playwright

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, and poet

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. Nersesian is of Armenian

Armenians

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 and Irish

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 descent. He was born and raised in New York City

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. His novels include The Fuck-up, Manhattan Loverboy, dogrun, Chinese Takeout

Chinese Takeout

Chinese Takeout is a novel written by American author, playwright and poet, Arthur Nersesian. The novel was dedicated "To the memory of Tom Reiss, teacher, artist, friend "...

, 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

Armenian literature

-Early literature:Armenian literature begins about 406 with the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop.Isaac, the Catholicos of Armenia, formed a school of translators who were sent to Edessa, Athens, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea in Cappadocia, and elsewhere, to procure...

 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

Hostos Community College

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, City University of New York

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, in the South Bronx

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Novels

• The Fuck-Up (1997) New York: MTV / Pocket Books ISBN 0-671-02763-8]
• Manhattan Loverboy (2000) New York: Akashic Books
  Akashic Books
  Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent publisher. Akashic Books' collection began with Arthur Nersesian's THE FUCK UP in 1996, and has since expanded to include Dennis Cooper's "Little House on the Bowery" series , Chris Abani's Black Goat poetry series, and the internationally successful...
  
   ISBN 1-888451-09-2
• Dogrun (2000) New York: Pocket Books ISBN 0-671-77542-1
• Suicide Casanova (2002) New York: Akashic Books ISBN 1-888451-30-0
• Chinese Takeout (2003) New York: Perennial ISBN 0-06-054882-7
• Unlubricated (2004) New York: Perennial ISBN 0-06-073411-6
• The Swing Voter of Staten Island (2007) New York: Akashic Books ISBN 978-1933354347
• The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx (2008) ISBN 978-1933354606
• Mesopotamia(2010) New York: Akashic Books ISBN 9781936070084

Plays

• East Village Tetralogy (1995) New York: Bookstreet ISBN 1-888451-01-7

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) ISBN 1-888451-00-9

External links

• Arthur Nersesian's home page
• An interview
• Another interview
• Hear Nersesian read from The Fuck-Up on Salon.com
• interview at FreeWilliamsburgh.com
• interview at suicidegirls.com
• interview at bookslut.com
• Tenement Painting by Nersesian at Smyles & Fish
• Arthur Nersesian - New York's Best Kept Secret - Broowaha