all around they are taking down the lights

Stories about movies and the underside of trying to live up to male tropes. The men in these stories hurt and get hurt. They push too hard and not enough. They disappoint others and themselves. Their movie-moves damage. And their small successes, sometimes empty, sometimes meaningful, happen far from Hollywood.

Adam Berlin has written four novels: Headlock (Algonquin Books), Belmondo Style (St. Martin’s/The Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award), The Number of Missing (Spuyten Duyvil),and Both Members of the Club (Texas Review Press/Clay Reynolds Prize). He teaches writing at John Jay College in NYC and co-edits the litmag J Journal.