New York Graphic

A delicious darkly comic work of new urban noir from an original new literary talent.. Meet Virgil Strauss a physically and emotionally unkempt yet somehow appealing tabloid photographer whose passion is bearing photographic witness--à la Weegee--to the obscene malevolent and sanguine viscera of New York culture. To his disapppointment and defeat The New York Graphic--the citys most renowned shock-based tabloid daily--has routinely rejected Virgils work.  But when Virgil and his friend Larry Onions rip off a local church he gets the picture of a lifetime a job at the Graphic  and a generous measure of trouble leading to serious indiscretions that include (but arent limited to): grave robbing straining his neighbors dogs feces for an inadvertently consumed diamond widely circulating the work of a renowned art terrorist and being an FBI informant in a serial bombing case.   Helping Virgil through his hard times is Marcy HIV-positive porn-star girlfriend whose wispy hardened tragic strength brings tenderness and humanity to Virgils cold-blooded reality.. New York Graphic is a winningly fresh contribution to the noir genre: alternately hilarious vulgar touching seriously disturbed--and a delightfully heady reading.