"Move over, Onegin--we've a new Eugene for the ages. In MichaelWeingrad's wildly charming and profound telling, young Eugene Nadelman'sadolescence in 1980s Philadelphia unfolds in iambic tetrameter, with each crushand clash and heartache feeling as epic as they do for the young and thehopeful. If you've ever spun the bottle or leered furtively at someone acrossthe dancefloor, you'll find yourself transformed by Weingrad's wit, wonder, andheart, and, like young Eugene himself, grow wiser." --Liel Leibovitz, editor at large , Tablet Magazine "[A] wistful and emotionally resonant novel that finds true poetry in teenage life." --Foreword Reviews "Delightful." -- New Verse Review " Eugene Nadelman is the book that Lord Byron would have written if hehad been an American Jewish teenager in the 1980s. With effortlessly brilliantrhymes, perfect recall for period details, and bittersweet blend of nostalgiaand satire, Michael Weingrad offers us literary pleasures of a kind that mostcontemporary poets have forgotten--if they ever knew it existed." -- Adam Kirsch, author of The Discarded Life "Smart, funny, and full of charm, Eugene Nadelman is a perfect coupling of form and content.

Simultaneously a glorious evocation of a specific time, place, and atmosphere, and a timeless love story worthy of Pushkin's Eugene." -- Maya Arad, author of The Hebrew Teacher "A novel in verse inspired by Pushkin's classic Eugene Onegin , with dungeons, dragons, Yiddishkeit, summer camp, and a 1980s soundtrack." --Kirkus Reviews "Michael Weingrad's Eugene Nadelman is many things: a time capsule of cultural artifacts from the early 1980s, a history of growing up Jewish in the city of Philadelphia, and a poetic appreciation of the vicissitudes of young love. But it is also a rumination on memory itself, the ways in which we revisit the past through people, places, events, ephemera. Reflecting on the forgotten wonders of the pre-internet age, Weingrad teaches us the crucial art of looking back, one sonnet at a time." --David Amadio, author of Rug Man "This admirably idiosyncratic, frequently funny, 1980s-nostalgic twist on Eugene Onegin is an impudent experiment that pays off." --James Kennedy, author of Bride of the Tornado "Onrushing beauty, technical virtuosity, wit, insight, revelry of language all the way through--this is what you have to look forward to from Eugene Nadelman . The story of this Philly Jewish '80s kid--"not the sort for teenage strife, / He dresses, eats a bowl of Life"--is a story of Everyboy.

Weingrad is a matchmaker who brings unsuspecting soulmate words together: "The plaintive piano chords of Journey / Intensify our hero's yearny / Anticipation and despair, / His open arms enfolding air." To read this work is to be wowed by a bravura performance and deeply touched in equal measure." --Jessica Hornik, author of A Door on the River.