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The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian

October 11, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If you saw this book in 1997 when it was first published and began appearing in bookstores, especially the likes of Books-a-Million or Barnes or Noble, you might recognize the cover. It was deeply scandalizing and deeply alluring. In reality the book is not really either, and this ends up being a pretty good book of a kind, with a bad title. The title promises what the book can’t really deliver, and while the book is funny and weird and sad, it’s not so much […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Nersesian

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:576 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arthur Nersesian ·
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The Five Books of [Robert] Moses – Arthur Nersesian (2020)

The Five Books of [Robert] Moses by Arthur Nersesian

December 16, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Given how long some books sit on my shelves before I finally get to them, the fact that I am picking up this 1500 page book only a year after I bought it (and when it was published) and tackling it means something I think. It doesn’t hurt that earlier this year I read The Power Broker for the first time, Robert Caro’s 1200 page book about Robert Moses’s life and career as the (often extra legal) architect of New York. How that basically worked […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Nersesian

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:518 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arthur Nersesian ·
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