Fiction. James Greer's fiction debut is the latest in Dennis Cooper's groundbreaking Little House on the Bowery series. Stunningly written in prose that is poetic, gripping, and highly adventurous, ARTIFICIAL LIGHT may be the first American novel to successfully treat the alternative rock scene of the 1990s as a subject for serious literature. "ARTIFICIAL LIGHT beats the bejeezus out of the last dozen Thomas Pynchons, the last nineteen Don DeLillos, and the last forty-three Kurt Vonneguts"--Richard Meltzer. James Greer has written a novel at once completely original in its form, composition and outlook and yet as classically pleasurable and informative as any work of contemporary fiction in memory.

Author City: Los Angeles, CA USA

James Greer is the author of THE FAILURE (Akashic Books, 2010); ARTIFICIAL LIGHT (Akashic Books, 2006), winner of the California Book Award for Best Debut Novel; and the nonfiction book Guided By Voices: A Brief History (Grove), a biography about a band for which he once played bass guitar. He is currently working on a rock musical about Cleopatra starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. He lives in Los Angeles.