Eve Ottenberg

Cover of "Glum and Mighty Pagans"

Glum and Mighty Pagans

Excerpt:

”Always wore it like that. Even thirty years ago. Bad enough being named Horace LaMarque and a nincompoop. The hair’s just the icing on the cake. Monica says he bought another motorcycle. People like that, it makes you understand how we could have had a president like Gerald Mayaguez Ford. Talk about a dim bulb. I can just see Horace in the voting booth next year, torn between the Liberty Lobby or whatever those fanatics are called and Ronald Reagan. Quite a quandary. Then he’ll look down at Sunny and say ‘what do you think?’ And when Sunny goes woof woof, he’ll close his eyes and pull a lever.”

Selected Works

Fiction

The Walkout, A Tale in Three Parts
This tale of a teachers' strike pits beleaguered public workers against an ambitious official and the business model of education.

What They Didn't Know, Stories and Essays
These stories and essays, a number previously published, make for a collection that is various and compelling.

Reluctant Reaper
A comic novel in dialogue about a group of daffy suburbanites and how they get tangled up with each other

Suburbia
A comic novel about a group of well-heeled ninnies who band together in a "not in my backyard" effort.

Dead in Iraq
A novel about the human costs of the Iraq war.

The Unblemished Darlings
A comic novel about a group of bumblers with a get-rich-quick scheme.

The Widow’s Opera
A dark drama about murder and betrayal in New York City in the 1950s.

Glum and Mighty Pagans
A comic novel about real estate in Manhattan.

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