Arthur Nersesian

Arthur Nersesian (born 1958) is an American novelist, playwright, and poet. Nersesian is of Armenian and Irish descent. He was born and raised in New York City. 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.

Poetry

 * New York Complaints (chapbook). Portable Press, 1993.
 * Tompkins Square & Other Ill-Fated Riot. (chapbook). Portable Press, 1990.
 * Tremors and Faultlines: Photopoems of San Francisco. Portable Press, 1995.

Plays

 * East Village Tetralogy. New York: Bookstreet, 1995.

Novels

 * The Fuck-Up. New York: MTV / Pocket Books, 1997.
 * Manhattan Loverboy. New York: Akashic Books, 2000.
 * Dogrun. New York: Pocket Books, 2000.
 * Suicide Casanova. New York: Akashic Books, 2002.
 * Chinese Takeout. New York: Perennial, 2003.
 * Unlubricated. New York: Perennial, 2004.
 * The Swing Voter of Staten Island. New York: Akashic Books, 2007.
 * The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. 2008.
 * Mesopotamia. New York: Akashic Books, 2010.