Wrong Bar

A YOUNG CLOUD OF MALICE LOOMS OVER MAUDLIN CITY... When self-obsessed Maudlin City writer Charles Haas wakes one early morning ina shallow grave complete with window pane roof, he realizes two things: one,itas a scene reenacted from one of his abandoned manuscript of fiction, andtwo, heas got to stop showing his writing to strangers. While still fresh in the dirt, Charles becomes obsessed by the cityas a~enfantsterriblea who jump through his sprinklers without asking with steak knives intheir mouths, searching for mayhem and the next high and plot a demonic danceparty hoax lead by evil eighteen-year-old Shawn Michaels. Charles soon realizes Maudlin Cityas paranoid literary community wars arenothing compared to the throngs of knife totting teens that are obsessed withplotting and hacking each other post-avatar, and spends every waking secondthinking about the end of the world boys and girls who aoerun through sprinklers glistening with kitchen knives and sloppy kisses.a In the spirit of Evelyn Vaughas Vile Bodies, Bret Easton Ellisas AmericanPsycho, Nathaniel G. Mooreas Wrong Bar is a novel that refuses tocelebrate the wild child within, instead seeks the greater emotional truthbehind the psychodramatic passions of a deranged generation thriving in thepost-sacred era. Nathaniel G. Moore describes his third book as what wouldhappen if he had written Brighton Rock now, in the age of twitter.

Nathaniel G. Moore is the author of Bowlbrawl, Let’s Pretend We Never Met, Pastels Are Pretty Much The Polar Opposite of Chalk, and coeditor of the anthology Toronto Noir. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.