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Current Events 2008

Thurs., September 11, 7pm
Bluestockings
172 Allen St.
New York, NY
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Joe Meno, author of Demons in the Spring. Book launch party with complimentary beer and wine!

Fri., September 12, 7pm
Barnes & Noble (Park Slope)
267 7th Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Joe Meno, author of Demons in the Spring.

Sat., September 13, 3pm
Word Books (Greenpoint)
126 Franklin St.
Brooklyn, NY
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Joe Meno, author of Demons in the Spring.

Sun., September 14, 7pm
KGB Bar Sunday Reading Series
85 E. 4th St.
New York, NY
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Joe Meno, author of Demons in the Spring.

Thurs., September 25, 7pm
Quimby's
1854 W. North Ave.
Chicago, IL
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Joe Meno, author of Demons in the Spring, and a slide show from the book presented by illustrator Anders Nilsen.

Sat., September 27, 7pm
Magers & Quinn
3038 Hennepin Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Joe Meno, author of Demons in the Spring, and Marlon James, author of John Crow's Devil.

Sun., September 28, 2pm
Elliott Bay Book Co.
101 S. Main St.
Seattle, WA
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Peter Plate.

Tues., September 30, 7:30pm
Powell's (downtown)
1005 W. Burnside
Portland, OR
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Peter Plate.

Thurs., October 2, 7:30pm
Books, Inc.
1344 Park St.
Alameda, CA
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Peter Plate.

Fri., October 3, 8:30pm
City Lights
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Joe Meno, author of Demons in the Spring, and Peter Plate.

Sat., October 4, 7pm
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd.
W. Hollywood, CA
*Reading from The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx. With Joe Meno, author of Demons in the Spring, and Joseph Mattson

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.htm

Posted 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, NY

Posted 3/24/08
Arthur will be reading on
Wednesday June 25th, 6pm.
the Cornelia Street Cafe,
29 Cornelia Street
With Gregory Djanikian

Posted 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.



Posted on 6/11/2006:

Akashic Books will be bringing out a novel by Arthur Nersesian.
The Swing Voter of Staten Island will be coming out in hardcover sometime next year and it is a wild departure from his prior work

Posted on 5/5/2006:

Two final performance/readings from one of the plays in the collection
of plays, East Village Tetralogy by Arthur Nersesian, with the assistance of a group of actors:

New York Public Library, the Ottendorfer Branch
135 Second Avenue, (near 9th Street), Manhattan
Tuesday May 16th, 6:30 pm.

The Tenement's Museum,
108 Orchard Street, (near Delancey)
Tuesday, June 6th, 6:30 pm.