East Village Tetralogy: Four Plays
Arthur Nersesian (born 1958) is an American novelist,  playwright, and poet. Neresian is of Armenian and Irish  descent. He was born and raised in New York City. His  novels include The Fuck-up, Manhattan Loverboy, dogrun,  Chinese Takeout, Suicide Casanova and Unlubricated. He  has also published a collection of plays, East Village  Tetralogy. He has written three books of poems and one  book of plays. In 2005, Nersesian received the Anahid  Literary Prize for Armenian Literature for his novel  Unlubricated. Nersesian is the managing editor of the literary  magazine, The Portable Lower East Side, and was an  English teacher at Hostos Community College, City  University of New York, in the South Bronx.