Eric Bogosian Books In Order

Novels

  1. Suburbia (1995)
  2. Mall (2000)
  3. Wasted Beauty (2005)
  4. Perforated Heart (2009)

Collections

  1. Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World (1993)

Plays

  1. Drinking In America (1987)
  2. Talk Radio (1988)
  3. Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll (1991)
  4. The Essential Bogosian (1994)
  5. Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead (1994)
  6. Wake Up And Smell the Coffee (2002)
  7. Humpty Dumpty (2004)
  8. Griller (2005)
  9. Red Angel (2005)
  10. Sex Plays (2013)
  11. One Hundred Monologues (2013)

Non fiction

  1. In the Dark (1983)
  2. Operation Nemesis (2015)

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Eric Bogosian Books Overview

Suburbia

Bogosian’s script retains the playwright performer s trademark vitriol and hammer wit. Time OutThis new version of Eric Bogosian s best selling play, set in a convenience store parking lot, premiered last season Off Broadway. His rewrites for a world seeped in cell phones, hip hop, and a new political context render the piece an American anyplace where everything, yet nothing, has changed The New York Times. Eric Bogosian s plays and solo shows include Talk Radio Pulitzer Prize finalist; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; and Drinking in America. He has received three OBIE awards and has toured throughout the country.

Mall

From the award winning avatar of contemporary urban theater and author of such modern classics as ‘Talk Radio’ and ‘Drinking in America’ comes this outrageous novel about five suburbanites whose lives intersect in one violent and life altering night at the local mall. Mal, a thirtysomething speed freak, shoots his mother, torches his house, and heads to the local mall with a sack of weapons and a plan for more mayhem. Danny, a voyeuristic businessman with a fetish for young underwear models, is caught by mall security peeking in dressing rooms at JCPenney. Jeff, a teenager with existential troubles, drops acid and departs on a philosophical nightmare. Donna, a hungry, unsettled housewife, is on the lookout for a one night stand. Michel, a Haitian immigrant and mall security guard, seeks salvation. All long for a kind of satisfaction, and this longing leads them to the modern plaza of possibility, the shopping mall, where their appetites converge in explosive ways. Satirical and provocative, Mall is an eye opening look at suburban life and the idea of ‘normalcy.’ In this, his first novel, Eric Bogosian delivers a dark, hilarious and biting commentary on an American culture fraught with sex, drugs, violence and congested thinking.

Wasted Beauty

With his dark wit and corrosive dialogue, Eric Bogosian tells a powerful and emotionally wrenching tale of two lovers who form a mesmerizing and destructive bond while trying to evade the looming failure of their respective lives.

Reba runs away from her shabby and desolate rural community for the lure of New York City. Her tall and awkward frame lands her work modeling, but she is not prepared for the glamorous, drug fueled life of a celebrated mannequin. After a series of painful relationships, she sees hope and an exit toward stability and sanity in the man who saves her brother’s life.

This man is Rick, a successful SoHo general practitioner with a warm family and an idyllic life that has left him restless and hollow. He doesn’t take Reba seriously until he finds himself so enmeshed in her beauty that he risks losing everything his home, his children and his beloved wife.

Now this master monologist and author of the acclaimed Mall returns with a sprawling novel of urban desperation and desire that brings to mind the winding narratives of Tom Wolfe salted with the dark urges of Philip Roth. The New York Times hailed Eric Bogosian’s fiction as ‘caustic, fast paced…
. Adapting himself to fiction with…
the same garrulous intensity he brings to plays and monologues, Mr. Bogosian sets in motion a suburban nightmare.’ And Entertainment Weekly has lauded his ‘merciless satirical vision that takes you deep into the dark heart of the American dream.’

Wasted Beauty is Bogosian’s enthralling journey through the high life of drugs and fashion celebrity, middle class guilt and sexual obsession.

Copyright 2005 by Simon & Schuster

Perforated Heart

Almost forty years after moving to Manhattan, author Richard Morris has achieved if not stratospheric renown then at least the accomplished career and caliber of fame that he envisioned for himself as a younger man. Now financially comfortable and artistically embittered, Richard is at his home upstate recuperating from heart surgery and nursing resentment toward his publisher and his reading public who have found new, more exciting writers and left his star to wane. In his attic, Richard comes across a stack of notebooks, the journals he began keeping when he arrived in New York in the late ’70s. He is alternately fascinated and repelled by the young man he meets in these pages: hilariously na ve and egotistically misguided, the younger Richard compulsively absorbs everything around him from art and creativity to sex and drugs. As he reads more about himself, written by himself, Richard discovers that the pivotal moments of self invention and self realization occur far outside the conventional chronology of a lifetime. Perforated Heart explores two wholly different characters a young, ambitious artist and his older self, jaded by both success and failure and creates an unforgettable portrait of the two men who inhabit the one individual. By turns meditative, deftly observant, and scathingly analytical, Eric Bogosian re creates the landscape and atmosphere of 1970s New York City with fresh, vivid imagery and reveals a powerful commentary on the dynamic between creativity and commerce in the artistic world. Perforated Heart is his most rewarding and penetrating novel yet, with prose that reflects an equally astonishing range of experience and emotion.

Notes from Underground and Scenes from the New World

Back in print early work by the author of subUrbia and Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll.

Talk Radio

‘Your fear, your own lives, have become your entertainment.’ Talk Radio

‘More timely today than it was twenty years ago…
Radio crackles with intensity.’ Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News

‘The most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting…
. This revival, like the original production, allows its star to grab an audience by the lapels and shake it into submission.’ Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio his breakthrough 1987 Public Theater hit that was made into a film by Oliver Stone has been revived in a ‘mesmerizing’ Newsday production on Broadway, with Liev Schreiber playing the role of the late night shock jock that Bogosian himself originated. The drama is set in the studio of Cleveland’s WTLK Radio over the course of Barry Champlain’s two hour broadcast, being scrutinized that night by producers with an interest in taking the show national, and fueled as always by coffee, cocaine, and Jack Daniel’s. Barry’s jousts with his unseen callers ranging from a white supremacist to a woman obsessed with her garbage disposal are peppered with insights into his character from his ex deejay pal and his sometime girlfriend/producer, and punctuated with a transformative visit from an embodied voice.

Eric Bogosian is a writer and actor who over the last twenty years has authored five full length plays and created six full length solos for himself, including subUrbia; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead;and Drinking in America. He is the recipient of three OBIE Awards and a Drama Desk Award, and has toured throughout the United States and Europe.

Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll

Comic monologues Characters: 1 male Bare stage This non stop tour through some oddball minds by the author of Talk Radio and Drinking in America enjoyed a lengthy run Off Broadway. Originally performed as a one man show, the hilarious, riveting and often disturbing monologues can be presented by several actors or actresses. ‘With this brilliant show, his funniest and scariest yet, Mr. Bogosian has crossed the line that separates an exciting artist from a culture hero…
. I know of no one else like him in pop culture right now. He knows which way the wind is blowing, and in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, these icy currents smack you right in the face.’ The New York Times ‘Clever and often devastating…
. Spiky, stinging, caustic without cauterizing…
and funny.’ New York Magazine ‘Terrific.’ Associated Press ‘Continuously funny.’ The New Yorker

Wake Up And Smell the Coffee

Bogosian’s newest solo show, his first since 1993, was a sold out hit in its recent New York City run. Wake Up is Bogosian’s meditation on making it to the top of the ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating thrill of the ultimate crash and burn. ‘Bogosian hasn’t simply crossed the line of good taste, he has snorted it.’ The Daily Texan

Humpty Dumpty

Eric Bogosian is one of our most singular and exhilarating commentators on American life. His award winning solo performance works have been performed with acclaim all over the world. As the New York Times has pointed out, Bogosian is a born storyteller with perfect pitch. That is never more evident than in his newest book, which collects his three most recent plays. In Humpty Dumpty, five friends gather for a holiday at a mountain getaway where unforeseen events bring them to the brink of the end of the world; Griller, set in a New Jersey backyard, where a barbecue gathering turns sinister and deadly; and Red Angel, Bogosian’s riff on Von Sternberg s The Blue Angel, reset on a college campus in 1990s New England. I want theater to wake me up, not lull me to sleep. My theater is not about fantasy, it s not about seduction. My theater is not an outline for a film. It is not a TV sitcom onstage. I want my theater to be an event. I want it to push limits, bite the hand that feeds it and bang heads. It s about my fears, my ideas, my blind spots, my isolation. Eric BogosianEric Bogosian is the author of five plays including Talk Radio and subUrbia, as well as three Obie Award winning solos: Drinking in America; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead and his most recent, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He wrote the screenplay adaptations of his first two plays, receiving the Berlin Film Festival s Silver Bear for his work in Talk Radio. Simon and Schuster will publish his second novel in 2005.

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