Ilan Mochari is the author of ZINSKY THE OBSCURE (Fomite Press, 2013), the Pushcart-nominated debut novel.Boston's NPR station named ZINSKY THE OBSCURE one of its "Good Reads For The Summer." ZINSKY was also featured in the Boston Globe's "Word on the Street" column.Ilan's short stories and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Hobart, Keyhole, Midway Journal, and elsewhere. Another short story was a finalist in a Glimmer Train competition. He has a B.A. in English from Yale. He used it to wait tables for nine years at various restaurants in the Boston area.ACCLAIM for ZINSKY THE OBSCURE:"Brutally funny....forged from the same literary hearth that has given us such delightful and fussy oddballs as Ignatius J. Reilly, Don Quixote, and Kilgore Trout....this book has the scope of something like Irving's The World According to Garp. It also has that book's heart. " - DigBoston"This eloquent novel from Mochari...is both bleak and affecting." - Publishers Weekly"A powerful debut with Dickensian touches in its heartbreaking and occasionally humorous chronicle of the life of a modern young man." - Kirkus Reviews"This wry debut novel takes on the classic coming-of-age saga, and it makes the reader rethink common assumptions about how young people get from here to there." - Booklist"A terrific novel, whose pileup of emotional honesty is visceral and powerfully real -- just try to look away." - Dara Horn, National Jewish Book Award winning author and two-time New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice selectionFOR MORE:zinskytheobscure.comilanmochari.comamazon.com/author/ilanmochariTwitter: @IlanMochariYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/zinskytheobscure#p/uFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/ZinskyTheObscureGoodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/IlanMochariEXCERPTS:http://www.stymiemag.com/2012/12/from-zinsky-obscure-fomite-press-pages.htmlhttp://goodmenproject.com/sports-2/a-tale-of-basketball-and-meeting-your-girlfriends-family/LINKS:http://radioboston.wbur.org/2013/05/23/good-reads-for-the-summer-from-radio-bostonhttp://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/07/13/caitlin-kiernan-drowning-girl-wins-bram-stoker-award/8hJWBnd7hrZyDxZJNSy0pJ/story.html