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“Nersesian is this generation’s Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi.”—Jennifer Belle, author of High Maintenance “Award-winning playwright Arthur Nersesian has woven an effective dramatic form through four plays, each quite funny in its own way. Each yields very powerful human results while subtly investigating the major social issues of our time.”—Evangelina Borges, Trying Time Press 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 East Village Writer's Bloc Plea Bargains Spare Change

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Nersesian is this generation's Mark Twain and the East River is his Mississippi. - Jennifer Belle, author of High Maintenance ...One of the wittiest and most perceptive chroniclers of downtown life. - Time Out New York Not since Henry Miller has a writer so successfully captured the...tribulations of a struggling artist...a masterly image. Library Journal on Chinese Takeout

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Arthur Nersesian is the author of The Fuck-Up (MTV Books/Simon&Schuster), dogrun (MTV Books/Simon&Schuster) Chinese Takeout (HarperCollins), Unlubricated (HarperCollins), Manhattan Loverboy (Akashic) and Suicide Casanova (Akashic). The former managing editor of the Portable Lower East Side, he currently lives in New York City.

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