| News/Events Posted on 6/17/2010 Recent Interviews: Arthur recently gave an interview for a German Magazine, He gave a second interview to IDEA, English library website.
The Mesopotamia Book Tour: Wednesday, May 19, 7pm Thursday June 10, 8:00pm Thursday, June 17, 7:30pm Friday, June 18, 7:30pm Thursday, July 8, 7pm Friday, July 9, 7:30pm Wednesday, August 4, 12:30pm *Check for any changes as the reading date approaches Monday August 9th, 7pm.
Thursday, April 22 at 7 p.m.
Susan Woolf, artist and friend, Rest In Peace. An interview with Arthur can be found at Splash of Red. Posted on 9/30/09 On Sunday October 4th, at Noon, Meet Arthur who will be signing books at Atlantic Antics 2009. He'll be at the Akashic Books booth on Court Street and Atlantic Avenue. Posted on 9/16/09 On October 10th at 6:00pm at Unnameable Books (456 Bergen Street -where 5th avenue meets Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope), Arthur will be reading a small excerpt for an anthology, The Worst Book I Ever Read Posted on 9/11/09 Say Hi to Arthur at the Akashic Books booth on Sunday afternoon at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Camdan Plaza in Brooklyn Heights. Posted on 7/15/09 Arthur is interviewed on Chief Magazine. Posted on 6/29/09 Arthur reads an excerpt from his book The Swing Voter of Staten Island at The Blue Stocking Bookstore on January 24, 2008. Posted on 6/24/09 Arthur had the pleasure of reading one of Richard Leck's Greenwich Village memories, Knee Deep In the Express on March 9th, 2009 at Posted on 5/22/09: Gartal and the Armenian Gay and Lesbian Association of New York present "An Evening of Literary Pride" June 20th, 2009, 6PM: Readings by: LGBT Community Services Center - Room 410 Posted on 4/17/09: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 2:00pm: A Memorial Reading at The Bowery Poetry Club (305 Bowery) Arthur will be reading some of the works of Richard Leck, a Greenwich Village writer who died on December 19, 2008, at age 75. Other readers will include: Steve Dalachinsky, Bob Holman, Margarita Shalina and Karen Lillis. Writer Todd Dills has written a wonderful essay on The Sacrificial Circumcision of The BronxPosted on 3/4/09 Monday March 9th, at 7pm. Arthur will be on a panel discussing Friday, March 13th, 2009, at 7pm. Arthur will be reading some poetry Here's an interesting overview of The Five Books Of Moses, Posted on 2/13/09 Writer Todd Dills has written a wonderful essay on The Sacrificial Circumcision of The Bronx East Village Artist, Fly, who has drawn-and-written a wonderful and diverse series of portraits of artists, known as Peops (an earlier collection of the same name was published by Soft Skull Press, 2003) has "peoped" Arthur. Her portrait of him is appearing on page 20 (in the 2/4/09-2/10/09 issue) of The Villager newspaper, which can be gotten for free at various newspaper boxes throughout Manhattan. Posted on January 20th, 2009 Arthur has three poems published in the Winter 2009 issue of Bombay Gin (Vol.35,No.1) buy online
Arthur would like to express his great regret at the sudden death of friend and fellow-writer Ellen Miller, who passed away on December 22, 2008. Ellen was the author of the powerful novel Like Being Killed. She was only 42 and she will be dearly missed. Current Events 2008 The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx Reading Tour: If you don't want to wait the added month before it gets into bookstores, an immediate signed, hardcover copy of The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx -- along with a free, letter-press, Arthur Nersesian woodcut postcard (while available) -- is $22.95 (shipping included) at the website: Thurs., September 11, 7pm
Past Events 2006-2008 If you don't want to wait for the additional month it takes for them to get into bookstores, signed, hardcover copies of The Swing Voter of Staten Island are immediately available for $23 at the website http://www.akashicbooks.com/swingvoter.htmPosted 4/05/08 The Swing Voter of Staten Island, which came out last Fall was the first volume of the Five Books of Moses, the second book,
The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx will be coming out later this year
Posted 4/16/08 Arthur will be reading from Swing Voter
and saying a polite few words about the neighborhood
Wednesday June 11th at 6:30
New York Public Library
Mulberry Branch
10 Jersey St.
(one block down from Houston,
just off Lafayette St.)
New York, NYPosted 3/24/08
Arthur will be reading on Wednesday June 25th, 6pm.
the
Cornelia Street Cafe,
29 Cornelia Street
With Gregory DjanikianPosted 1/17/08 - UPDATED 3/24/08 Arthur will be reading in the "Meet the Neighbors"
will be reading from his new book, Swing Voter
and talking about the Chinatown neighborhood in relationship to his works,
DUE TO ILLNESS ARTHUR WILL BE UNABLE TO READ ON Wednesday, March 26th at 6:15 pm.
The New York Public Library Mulberry Street Branch 10 Jersey St. New York, NY 10012 Posted 3/11/08
Arthur will be appearing on the TV show Cool In Your Code on Channel 25
Tuesday, March 11th at 8:30pm.
it will repeat
Thursday March 13th at 8pm. &
Sunday March 16th at 9:30pm
Posted 3/6/08 Arthur will be reading and discussing
The Swing Voter of Staten Island
Friday, March 14, 7pm.
Jackson Heights Community Center
7409 37th Ave (btwn 74th and 75th Streets),
on the 4th floor in the SAGE room, # 409.
Get there by taking the F/E/V/R/7 to Roosevelt Avenue
2 blocks from the site
Posted 1/24/08
Arthur will be reading from his short story
Hunter/Trapper in the Brooklyn Noir anthology,
Thurs., February 21, 7:30pm
Word Books
126 Franklin St.
Brooklyn, NY
the Book is one block from the Greenpoint Stop on the G train.
*Featuring
Queens Noir editor Robert Knightly, Brooklyn Noir editor Tim
McLoughlin, and contributors Arthur Nersesian and Jillian Abbott.
Posted 9/10/07 Arthur will be reading from Swing Voter of Staten Island
on Sunday Sept 16, 1pm. at the Brooklyn Book Festival
w/ Paula Fox and Ben Greenman
at Community Room, Brooklyn Borough Hall
for more information go to:
With Paula Fox and Ben Greenman
Posted on 7/20/2007:
All are invited to Arthur's book tour for The Swing Voter of Staten Island
Arthur will be signing books w/ Jennifer Belle
on Saturday, Ocotober 13, from 2:00 to 2:45pm.
at the Strand Literary and Arts Festival
celebrating the store's 80th birthdayy w/ dozens of other writers
on 12th & Broadway
for more information go to:
http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/calendar/:October 17th, Wednesday at 7pm
LAUNCH PARTY for The Swing Voter of Staten Island
at The Tenement's Museum,
108 Orchard Street, (near Delancey) There will be refreshments, including beer/wine
and all are invited!w/ Akashic author Preston Allen Thurs., October 18, 7pm
Akashic Books 10th Anniversary Celebration! Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY *With Amiri Baraka, T Cooper, Felicia Luna Lemus, Preston L. Allen, and Tim McLoughlin. Mon., November 5, 7pm Barnes & Noble 4 Astor Place New York, NY *With Lydia Lunch, author of Paradoxia Wed., November 7, 7pm Quimby's Bookstore 1854 W. North Ave. Chicago, IL *With Lydia Lunch, author of Paradoxia, and Joe Meno, author of Tender As Hellfire Thurs., November 8, 7pm City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave. San Francisco, CA *With Lydia Lunch, author of Paradoxia Fri., November 9, 7:30pm Books, Inc. 1344 Park St. Alameda, CA Sat., November 10, 7:30pm
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley, CA *With Lydia Lunch, author of Paradoxia Sun., November 11, 2pm Elliott Bay Book Company 101 S. Main St. Seattle, WA *With Lydia Lunch, author of Paradoxia Mon., November 12, 7pm Third Place Books (Ravenna) 6504 20th Ave. NE Seattle, WA Tues., November 13, 7:30pm Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA *With Lydia Lunch, author of Paradoxia Wed., November 14, 7:30pm Hammer Museum Reading Series Hammer Museum, Gallery 6 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA *With Lydia Lunch, author of Paradoxia Hosted by Benjamin Weissman, author of Headless. November 17th, 8pm.
Arthur will be reading The Swing Voter of Staten Island
with Aaron Petrovich, author of The Session
at Raconteur Books in Metuchen, New Jersey
for added information:
Wednesday, November 27th, 7pm
McNally Robinson
52 Prince Street
New York, NY
W/ Felicia Luna Lemus and Colin Channer
Wednesday November 28, 7:30pm.
Barnes & Noble
267 7th Avenue
Park Slope, Brooklyn 7th Avenue (Bklyn.) Stop on the F Train
W/Jennifer Belle, author of Little Stalker
Posted on 1/15/2007: Sat., December 1st at 4pm
Arthur will do a reading of his first novel, The Fuck Up
Twentieth Anniversary of the Small Press Book Fair
20 West 44th Street, between 5th & 6th Avenues
with Tama Janowitz
Posted 12/26/07 Arthur will be reading from The Swing Voter Of Staten Island
afterwards there will be a Q/A
Thursday, January 24th, at 7:00pm.
at Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
New York, N.Y.
posted 1/12/07 On February 6th at 7:30 pm, Tillies Cafe (at 248 DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene (718)-783-6140 is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a reading from the Brooklyn Noir Crime Anthology. Arthur will be reading from his story Hunter/Trapper along with Tim Mcloughlin and company. Admission is free. Posted on 1/12/2007: The NYC Writers Circle will be hosting a meeting where Arthur will speak. Friday January 19th, 2007 at 7:00 PM at KGB Bar: 85 East 4th street 2nd fl., btw. Second Avenue and Bowery, New York, NY 10003 . No admission cover and all are welcome.Posted on 9/30/2006: Arthur will be giving a talk at the Strand Bookstore (Broadway & 12 St.) about his play (East Village Tetralogy) on Monday, November 13th, sometime between 7 and 8:30. He will be one of a group of people to selebrate the launch of Smyles & Fish, a new literary magazine.Posted on 9/20/2006: Arthur Nersesian's play, Rent Control, the first play in the East Village Tetralogy will be premiering at the Tapp Gallery Theatre in Darlinghurst in Sydney, Australia on Thursday the 18th of January and will be running until Saturday 28th of January 2007. For more information go to http://tapgallery.org.au/theatr01.htm.When Arthur and his brother Patrick hailed a cab in lower Manhattan, they found themselves unwitting contestants on the game show, Cash Cab, which can be seen in repeats on the Discovery Channel -- the episode has already aired several times. Arthur has a 300 word short story that will appear in an upcoming anthology called Social Disease which will be out February of 2007. All proceeds from the anthology will go to a charity yet to be designated. Further information can be found later this year at http://www.socialdisease.co.uk.
Akashic Books will be bringing out a novel by Arthur
Nersesian. Posted on 5/5/2006: Two
final performance/readings from one of the plays in the collection New York Public
Library, the Ottendorfer Branch The Tenement's
Museum,
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