Editing Arthur Nersesian

{{short description|American novelist, playwright, and poet}}
{{infobox writer
|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
}}
|nationality=American
|alma_mater=[[Midwood High School]]
}}
'''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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 

His novels include ''The Fuck-up'',<ref>{{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}}</ref> ''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]].<ref>{{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.</ref> His novel ''Dogrun'' was adapted into the 2016 feature film ''[[My Dead Boyfriend]]''.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
===Novels===
*''The Fuck-Up'' (1997) {New York]: MTV / Pocket Books<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*''Manhattan Loverboy'' (2000) New York: [[Akashic Books]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*''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}}

==References==
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