The first book of plays from the author of the cult-classic The Fuck-Up (over 100,000 copies in print)

A February 2006 Book Sense Notable selection

"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:

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.