| Nersesian's cult status has grown from the success of his novels, and here for the first time his equal skills as a playwright are revealed to a hungry public. Three of the four plays in East Village Tetralogy have been staged off-Broadway in New York City. The four plays included in this volume are: Rent Control, Writer's Bloc, Plea Bargains, and Spare Change. Arthur Nersesian is an award-winning playwright and the author of six novels, including The Fuck-Up (Akashic, 1997& MTV Books/Simon& Schuster, 1999), Chinese Takeout (HarperCollins), Manhattan Loverboy (Akashic), Suicide Casanova (Akashic), dogrun (MTV Books/Simon& Schuster), and Unlubricated (HarperCollins). The former managing editor of the Portable Lower East Side, he currently lives in New York City. |
