Arthur Nersesian's cult classic, The Fuck-Up, was the first book Akashic published, the novel sold through 3 printings with Akashic before being sold to MTV Books/Simon & Schuster who has sold over 100, 000 copies.
Nersesian has continued to publish with Akashic over the years as well as Harper Perennial, S&S, , etc.
One of Nersesian's previous novels, Dogrun, was the basis for a film, My Dead Boyfriend, which starred Heather Graham, Jo...
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 craft. Desperate for cash, Or agrees to take a commission no one else will touch: he has three weeks to carve a headstone for a recently deceased restaurateur -- a Chinese takeout box. As Or attempts to m...
A Fierce and Hysterical TaleOf Self-Destruction OnThe Road to Being DiscoveredHannah 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 material, not just mindless roles for eager and nubile bodies. When she comes across a lost play by a dead 1980s icon -- brilliantly written, with the perfect role that will display her acting chops -- she thinks she's hit ...
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 investigation. But Gladyss believes her mystical yoga practice can give her an intuitive edge in solving the crimes and sees mythological patterns in the suspects and events they're investigating. Bernie t...
Fuck-up, Newyorkun arka sokaklarinda gezinen adsiz bir avarenin kah kasvetli, kah neseli yolculugunu kiskirtici bir üslupla betimliyor.Sevgilisi tarafindan terk edilen, zam istedigi anda kovulan, daha sonra buldugu porno sinemasindaki isinden olmamak icin gay numarasi yapan bir fuck-upin basina gelen tüm traji-komik olaylar, sehir yalnizliginin sindigi bir espri anlayisiyla aktariliyor. Roman kahramaninin düzgün bir is ve kiz arkadasa sahipken...
Attorney Leslie Cauldwell is middle-aged, handsome, and rich, but has only a few swipes left on his mental Metrocard. During a rough sex session, he garrotes his beloved wife, now he's an officially designated "sex offender, " off on a bender, looking for love in all the wrong places.
The paperback edition of Nersesian's exalted novel published simultaneously with the second installment in Nersesian's The Five Books of Moses series (see previous page).
Fiction. "The charm and grit of Nersesian's voice is immediately enveloping, as the down-and-out but oddly up narrator of his terrific novel, THE FUCK UP, slinks through Alphabet City and guttural utterances of love" - The Village Voice.
