Written Out

"This darkly funny book, with its jaundiced view of the world of books & publishing, deserves a wide readership." — Publishers Weekly Roger Olivetti has it made: a comfortable & rewarding career as an editor, a brownstone in downtown Manhattan, & a lovely, bestselling novelist wife. Then the bottom falls out of the publishing industry & his marriage simultaneously, & Roger ends up living in the basement of his mother’s house in the Long Island town where he grew up. While planning his comeback, he falls in with people he once knew, or thought he did, & soon finds himself with an unwelcome new career as a suburban hit man, scrambling to stay a step ahead of the local Mafia – & his mother’s book club, as they slowly puzzle out the identity of the killer.Written Out is fast-paced & funny suburban noir, Fargo on Long Island, a darkly comic tale of social mobility, self-publishing, & murder.°°° Howard Mittelmark lives in New York City, where he works as a writer & editor. He is married to the novelist Sandra Newman, with whom he wrote the bestseller How Not to Write a Novel. He is the author of the novel Age of Consent, & his writing has appeared in numerous print & online publications, including The Village Voice, The Awl, Vulture, The International Herald-Tribune, & the Times of London. He has reviewed books for The New York Times, the Washington Post & the Philadelphia Inquirer, & ghostwritten bestselling memoirs. He grew up on Long Island. "Roger Olivetti has it made: a comfortable and rewarding career as an editor, a brownstone in downtown Manhattan, and a lovely, bestselling novelist wife. Then the bottom falls out of the publishing industry and his marriage simultaneously, and Roger ends up living in the basement of his mother's house in the Long Island town where he grew up. While planning his comeback, he falls in with people he once knew, or thought he did, and soon finds himself with an unwelcome new career as a suburban hit man, scrambling to stay a step ahead of the local Mafia - and his mother's book club, as they slowly puzzle out the identity of the killer. Written Out is fast-paced and funny suburban noir, Fargo on Long Island, a darkly comic tale of social mobility, self-publishing, and murder"-- Provided by publisher Roger Olivetti had it made: a comfortable and rewarding career as an editor, a brownstone in downtown Manhattan, and a lovely, bestselling novelist wife. Then the bottom falls out of the publishing industry and his marriage simultaneously, and Roger ends up living in the basement of his mother's house in the Long Island town where he grew up. While planning his comeback, he falls in with people he once knew, and soon finds himself with an unwelcome new career as a suburban hit man, scrambling to stay a step ahead of the local Mafia, and his mother's book club, as they slowly puzzle out the identity of the killer