Nada

by Mike Heppner

In this darkly funny and often unsettling novella, Mike Heppner ("The Egg Code," "Pike's Folly," "The Man Talking Project") introduces readers to Nada Zilch, a social omnivore and reality TV star with a taste for staying up all night and pushing people's buttons. Always the loudest, smartest voice in the room, Nada has chosen her victim for the Billy Gallagher, an NYU professor who is struggling to put his own excesses behind him. What starts out as a business proposition between two strangers quickly evolves into a cackling ride through Manhattan at night, where the laughs are all fake, the drinks are all paid for, and the buzz and the hangover merge into violence at first light.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mike Heppner is the author of two novels and a collection of short fiction. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

PRAISE FOR "NADA" AND MIKE HEPPNER

"In 'Nada,' a fever dream of a story, Mike Heppner writes with both humor and a no-holds-barred authority about one crazy, booze- and drugs-fueled night in lower Manhattan. It's a fantastic, utterly compelling read; I dare you to put it down."
- Mako Yoshikawa, author of "One Hundred and One Ways" and "Once Removed"

"Heppner is a fearsome cultural critic disguised in a novelist's clothing.
- Entertainment Weekly

"Mike Heppner could well be the only novelist working in the postmodern style who consciously strives for accessibility and comparative ease of understanding."
- Peter Quinones, The Bohemian Aesthetic

"Mike Heppner [is] surely one of the most interesting young writers out there."
-Gary Fisketjon, interviewed in Slushpile

Cover design by Adil Dara Kim

94 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 27, 2013