Arthur Nersesian

Readers include: Bob Holman, Steve Dalachinsky, Jackie Sheeler, Arthur Nersesian, Margarita Shalina, Brian Cogan, and Tom Hendrickson. MC Karen Lillis. The poet Richard Leck died at age 75 in December 2008 at the beginning of his publishing career. A longtime Greenwich Villager, Leck was a native of ... (more)Jersey City. Several Downtown writers gather to read from his poetry chapbook, Memory Hair, and from his memoirs, which he was writing at the time of his death. See more on Richard Leck at the blog, EV Grieve (May 1, 2009). 2:00pm-3:30pm, FREE Admission.

Arthur Nersesian discusses and signs The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx & Joseph Mattson discusses and signs Empty the Sun
Nersesian presents the highly anticipated second volume in his Five Books of Moses series. In this volume, Robert Moses loots his brother Paul's share of the Moses ... (more)family fortune, repeatedly blocks his attempts at gaining public office, thwarts his career in the private sector, and sets in motion events that will destroy Paul's home life. Paul Moses's deep-seated rage metamorphoses into an act of terrorism committed against his brother and against a city that he once cherished.
“Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles.” Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race against God to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattson's Empty the Sun, an urgent, beautifully reckless novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption, which includes a soundtrack by the enigmatic and stunning Six Organs of Admittance.

This afternoon brings another in a series of touring groups of authors published by Brooklyn-based independent publisher, Akashic Press—this time in conjunction Seven Stories Press. Seattle mystery writer Curt Colbert is currently editing a much-anticipated anthology, Seattle Noir, a forthcoming selection ... (more)for Akashic's popular series of noir fictions set in various cities. He will read, to then be followed by Arthur Nersesian, last seen here in a popular, joint reading with Lydia Lunch. He'll read from his new book, The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx (Akashic), second in his Five Books of Moses series. Edgy, dark, and perfect this all should be for what's likely to be a rainy, weekend afternoon. The darkness is coming ...

"Mr. Nersesian will be reading from his new book, The Swing Voter of Staten Island, and talking about the neighborhood and its relationship to his works. Following the reading will be an opportunity for discussion and questions"