THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM! BOOK 1 and BOOK 2, THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
(see raves below)
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well so I wrote a novel, which is some crazy shit. Not just a novel but book 1 in a series of novels. Then I went and wrote another novel, the second in the series. Christ. And thus I enter yet another pase of my charmed life and I’m very thankful.
PRAISE JAH FOR THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM:
“The perfect blend of dystopia and the hardboiled shamus. It’s great to know that there are still debut novels coming through the pipe that can knock me on my ass. With The Dewey Decimal System, Nathan Larson has announced his arrival with style and clarity. I’ll be first in line for his second novel, and his twentieth.”
—Victor Gischler, author of The Pistol Poets
“Like Motherless Brooklyn dosed with Charlie Huston, Nathan Larson’s delirious and haunting The Dewey Decimal System tips its hat, smartly, to everything from Philip K. Dick’s dystopias to Chester Himes’s grand guignol Harlem novels, while also managing to be utterly fresh, inventive, and affecting all on its own.”
—Megan Abbott, Edgar-winning author of The End of Everything
“The Dewey Decimal System is a brilliant and compelling read, and Dewey is a unique protagonist: tough, resilient, smart and okay… nuts, but in the best possible way. We should all be so crazy.”
—Robert Ferrigno
“Nathan Larson’s Dewey Decimal is a combination like no other—in a dystopian landscape, he’s discursive, loves dissing fools, dissecting language and violence, and has a hell of a system. He’s like Walter Moseley’s sometime L.A. hit man Mouse, but with some Chester Himes and Jerome Charyn threaded in. This novel is a love song to New York’s streets and boroughs and people, even when they’re decimated, and Larson’s ‘post-racial’ character, a mutt for all times, is someone I’d follow over and over again through whatever secret paths he finds in this world.”
—Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales
PRAISE FOR THE FORTHCOMING BOOK THE NERVOUS SYSTEM !
“The most incredible thing about Nathan Larson’s The Nervous System is just how credible it is - a ravaged New York City, a postmodern warrior with a code, villains at once smaller and larger than life, the futile human obsession to create order out of chaos. And the prose is perfect, as tweaked and jumpy and memorable as the man known as Dewey Decimal. I’m a Library of Congress girl myself, but Larson’s uncannily original fiction deserves its own number within any system of library classification.” -Laura Lippman, author of What the Dead Know
“Sheer magic and delirious joy, this intellectual giddy riot is the book of the year. The Nervous System is a rock ‘n’ roll paranoid masterclass in invention, with writing so crafted, gifted, I long to quote every line. The mystery is taken to a whole new level of technospeak artistry, and wonderfully witty, like John Kennedy Toole if he’d written a mystery novel and did meth - a lot of it. The warmth of the character seeps through in Dewey Decimal’s love for a devastated New York and still the city sings. The New York Public Library should put up a plaque to the most original PI since Marlowe. OCD never seemed so compelling. Loved it and then some. What a writer.”
-Ken Bruen, author of The Guards
“I’m a sucker for a postapocalyptic setting, and Nathan Larson’s is a doozy; but the real gold here is the voice. I could listen to this guy all day. If you loved The Dewey Decimal System, you’ll love this one too. If you didn’t love The Dewey Decimal System, it’s because you didn’t read it. That’s okay, you can start here. Thank me later.”
-SJ Rozan, Edgar Award-winning author of Ghost Hero
“The Nervous System is an armed-to-the-teeth, punch-in-the-guts, post-apocalyptic page turner. You’ll be afraid to put it down.”
Maggie Estep, author of Hex