Arthur Nersesian

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Arthur Nersesian (born 1958) is an American novelist, playwright, and poet 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.

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A Cursory Rhyme (poem, 1992)
East Village Tetralogy(four plays) (1995); New York: Bookstreet ISBN 1-888451-01-7
Tremors and Faultlines: Photopoems of San Francisco (poems - 1995, Portable Press) ISBN 1-888451-00-9
The Fuck-Up (1997) New York: Akshasic Publications ISBN 1-888451-03-3
Manhattan Loverboy (2000) New York:Akshasic Publications ISBN 1-888451-09-2
Dogrun (2000) New York: Pocket Books ISBN 0-671-77542-1
New York Complaints (poems - 1993, Portable Press) OCLC 30790822
Tompkins Square & Other Ill-Fated Riots (poems - 1990, Portable Press)
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