Arthur Nersesian

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1999
  • Latest Book:
    August 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Five Books of Moses

1 - The Swing Voter of Staten Island (Oct-2008)
2 - The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx (Oct-2008)

Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • The F*ck-Up

    Arthur Nersesian's underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life.This is the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He's a perennial couch-surfer, an aspiring writer searching for himself in spite of ...

  • Manhattan Loverboy

    Updating the picaresque chronicles in L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz and Kafka's The Trial, MLB is the tale of an orphan whose only known background is that of the city itself, a scaffold-covered grid sewn together with "Do Not Cross" tape. In this ove...

  • Dogrun

    mary bellanova came home to her east village apartment, cooked dinner, and fought with her boyfriend, primo. but soon mary realized that primo's silence in front of the tv set was more than just one of his bad moods: primo was actually dead.other guy...

  • Suicide Casanova

    Â"Sick, depraved, and heartbreaking -- in other words, a great read, a great book. Suicide Casanova is erotic noir and Nersesian’s hard-boiled prose comes at you like a jailhouse confession.” -- Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra ManArthur N...

  • Chinese Takeout

    From the author of the cult classic The Fuck-Up comes a vicious new tale of art, drugs, love, and death on the Lower East Side.

    Orloff Trenchant is a painter who sells books on West 4th Street in Manhattan and is obsessed with mastering his...

  • Unlubricated

    A Fierce and Hysterical TaleOf Self-Destruction OnThe Road to Being Discovered

    Hannah is a struggling actress living in New York's Tribeca, and like any young thesp she is bent on success: finding paying jobs that offer good m...

  • The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx

    Five Books of Moses - 2

    Fiction. THE SACRIFICIAL CIRCUMCISION OF THE BRONX is the highly anticipated follow-up to THE SWING VOTER OF STATEN ISLAND - the first two installments in Arthur Nersesian's series The Five Books of Moses, which offers an alternate history of New Yor...

  • The Swing Voter of Staten Island

    Five Books of Moses - 1

    Fiction. In the first book of The Five Books Of Moses series, Arthur Nersesian breaks into a new landscape that at once fuses the real with the surreal, the psychological with the psychedelic. THE SWING VOTER OF STATEN ISLAND takes place over the cou...

  • Mesopotamia

    Things have not been going well for journalist Sandy Bloomgarten. Her job went down the drain and her marriage quickly followed. After a lengthy bender, she awakens one morning to the stark realization that she is flat broke. Nonetheless, she's still...



  • Gladyss of the Hunt

    Grizzled homicide detective Bernie “Burnout” Farrell heads the hunt for a serial killer who is murdering call girls around Times Square. Hoping to set up a stakeout, Farrell recruits tall, blonde, ambitious rookie cop Gladyss Chronou for the inve...

  • Sensitive Skin Number 11

    Sensitive Skin Number 11 contains writing by Arthur Nersesian, Sparrow, Deborah Pintonelli, Alan Kaufman, Joshua Mohr, Celia Farber, Lynn McGee, Rebecca Weiner Tompkins, Marc Olmsted, D. Scot Miller, Marian St. Laurent, Edward S. Robinson (interviewi...

  • The Five Books of (Robert) Moses

    A dramatic, playful, brutal, sweeping, and always entertaining reimagining of New York City history, presaging today’s political tyranny.“A postmodern masterwork that outdoes Pynchon in eccentricity -- and electricity, with all its dazzling prose...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Arthur Nersesian has published 12 books.

Arthur Nersesian does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Five Books of (Robert) Moses, was published in August 2020.

The first book by Arthur Nersesian, The F*ck-Up, was published in May 1999.

Yes. Arthur Nersesian has 1 series.
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