Arthur Nersesian writes New York fiction about artists, low-paid work, rent, obsession and the absurdity of trying to remain creative in an expensive city. The Fuck-Up follows an unemployed young man drifting through jobs, relationships and increasingly bad decisions in 1980s Manhattan, while Manhattan Loverboy turns romantic rejection into a comic and destructive obsession. Dogrun centres on a woman trying to understand the sudden death of her boyfriend, and The Five Books of (Robert) Moses imagines New York through a much larger alternative-history project. Nersesian’s prose is fast, darkly comic and street-level, interested in diners, apartments, theatres and marginal jobs rather than glamorous Manhattan. The Fuck-Up is the sharpest introduction to Nersesian’s downtown New York, where low-paid work, bad housing and artistic ambition keep pushing an unreliable young man from one comic disaster into another. Read more Less
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