Arthur Nersesian
{{short description|American novelist, playwright, and poet}}
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|name=Arthur Nersesian
|image=Arthur Nersesian by David Shankbone.jpg
|caption=Nersesian in September 2007
|birth_place=New York City, U.S.
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Novelist
- playwright
- poet
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|nationality=American
|alma_mater=Midwood High School
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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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/nyregion/thecity/14mose.html|title = Writing the Myth of Moses|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 12 September 2008|last1 = Gibberd|first1 = Ben}}
His novels include The Fuck-up,{{cite web | url=http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/globalization-of-the-worst-kind/ | title=Globalization of the Worst Kind | publisher=3:AM Magazine | date=October 8, 2007 | access-date=September 10, 2012 | author=Stevens, Andrew}} 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 South Bronx.{{cite web | url=http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Arthur+Nersesian/ | title=Interview: Arthur Nersesian | publisher=Suicide Girls | date=Nov 26, 2003 | access-date=September 10, 2012 | author=Epstein, Daniel}}
Nersesian has become an outspoken advocate of millennials and their effect on New York City. His novel Dogrun was adapted into the 2016 feature film My Dead Boyfriend.{{cite news|last=Myers|first=Kimber|title=Review No life or laughs to the dated comedy 'My Dead Boyfriend'|date=3 November 2016|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-mini-my-dead-boyfriend-review-20161031-story.html|access-date=5 May 2017}} His novel The Five Books of (Robert) Moses is 1,506 pages long, took him more than 25 years to write, and was published on July 28, 2020.{{cite news |last1=Trachtenberg |first1=Jeffrey |title=This Book Isn't 'War and Peace.' It's Bigger. |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-book-isnt-war-and-peace-its-bigger-11587301201 |access-date=19 April 2020 |work=Wall Street Journal |date=19 April 2020}}
Bibliography
=Novels=
- The Fuck-Up (1997) {New York]: MTV / Pocket Books{{cite web | url=http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/globalization-of-the-worst-kind/ | title=Globalization of the Worst Kind | publisher=3:AM Magazine | date=October 8, 2007 | access-date=September 10, 2012 | author=Stevens, Andrew}}
- Manhattan Loverboy (2000) New York: Akashic Books{{cite web | url=http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/still_fresh/may/nersesian.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123114644/http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/still_fresh/may/nersesian.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 23, 2013 | title=Arthur Nersesian | publisher=Free Williamsburg | access-date=September 10, 2012 | author=Laurence, Alexander}}
- 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
- Shit Show (2024) New York: Eponymous Books LLC
=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
- {{Cite journal|url = http://turnrow.ulm.edu/view.php?i=86&setcat=interview|title = An Interview with Arthur Nersesian|last = Crystal|first = Garry|date = Fall 2007|journal = Tunrow|volume = 5|issue = 1}}
- {{Cite web|title = Globalization of the Worst Kind|url = http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/globalization-of-the-worst-kind/|website = 3:AM Magazine|access-date = 2015-11-23|language = en-US|date = October 8, 2007}}
- {{Cite web|title = Free Williamsburg - Arthur Nersesian|url = http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/still_fresh/may/nersesian.html|archive-url = https://archive.today/20130123114644/http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/still_fresh/may/nersesian.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = January 23, 2013|website = www.freewilliamsburg.com|access-date = 2015-11-23}}
External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110707164814/http://www.arthurnersesian.com/ Arthur Nersesian's home page]}}
- [http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/nersesian/ Hear Nersesian read from The Fuck-Up on Salon.com]
- [https://archive.today/20130123114644/http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/still_fresh/may/nersesian.html interview at FreeWilliamsburg.com]
- [http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2005_04_005011.php Book review at bookslut.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020073347/http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2005_04_005011.php |date=2019-10-20}}
- [http://www.smylesandfish.com/?show=tenement Tenement] Painting by Nersesian at Smyles & Fish
- [http://www.broowaha.com/articles/2941/arthur-nersesian-new-yorks-best-kept-secret Arthur Nersesian - New York's Best Kept Secret - Broowaha] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726061047/http://www.broowaha.com/articles/2941/arthur-nersesian-new-yorks-best-kept-secret |date=2013-07-26}}
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Category:American people of Irish descent
Category:American writers of Armenian descent
Category:Hostos Community College faculty
Category:Novelists from New York (state)
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