Arthur Nersesian is an American novelist, playwright, and poet. He has written eight novels including The Fuck-Up, Chinese Takeout, Manhattan Loverboy, Suicide Casanova, Dogrun, and Unlubricated. He lives in New York City.
The Village Voice [A] terrific novel....The charm and grit of
Nersesian's voice is immediately enveloping, as the down-and-out
but oddly up narrator...slinks through Alphabet City and guttural
utterances of love.
Paper Nersesian creates a charming everyman whose candor and
sure-footed description of his physical surroundings and emotional
framework help his tale flow naturally and therefore
believably.
Hal Sirowitz author of Mother Said A Trainspotting without drugs,
New York style.
Time Out For those who remember that the eighties were as much
about destitute grit as they were about the decadent glitz
described in the novels of Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney,
this book will come as a fast-paced reminder.
Smug Magazine Touted as the bottled essence of early eighties East
Village living, The Fuck-Up is, refreshingly, nothing nearly so
limited....A cult favorite, I'd say it's ready to become a
legitimate religion.
Jennifer Belle author of Going Down Having "grown to tolerate all
of New York's degradations," Arthur Nersesian's main character is
irresistibly charming, funny, and real. Nersesian's writing,
reminding me at times of John Patrick Shanley and Gogol, is
beautiful, especially when it is about women and love. The Fuck-Up
is a terrific success.
Grid Magazine Not since The Catcher in the Rye, or John Knowles' A
Separate Peace, have I read such a beautifully written book....
Nersesian's powerful, sure-footed narrative alone is so believably
human in its poignancy... Nersesian mixes "F" trains, lumpy
couches, SoHo lofts, dive bars, lonely divorcees, porn theaters,
posh brownstones, embezzling employers, ritzy Hard Rock Cafe
parties, deceitful, would-be kept starlets, bathroom-stall poetry,
free Mercedes-Benzes, and even Mormons. Whew! I couldn't put this
book down.
Flipside Fantastically alluring! I cannot recommend this book
highly enough!
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