Fiction. Vassily, the voice of Noah Cicero's new novel, is a different sort of insurgent. An insurgent battling abjection, poverty, and depression in a 21st century Middle America rapidly devolving into Third World inscrutability. In his fifth work of fiction, the Rustbelt's voice of defiance puts forth his most anti-heroic message to date, bringing us back to the "homeland" to see that the real insurgency lies within ourselves.

The Insurgent

Literature & Fiction

Cicero, Noah

Contemporary

BLATT Books

Best Behavior, the new novel by Noah Cicero, is his boldest work yet. As the subject matter becomes increasingly autobiographical, the landscape more bleak, its impact is blunt, brutal, but somehow still hilarious. This is the literature of pain: of living in a world where nothing is right–a temple to capitalism with no room for any kind of human spirit–and, despite everything, trying to find some way to deal with it; then eventually failing. Best Behavior might be the truest story ever told.
Best Behavior is slice-of-life, and that’s as it should be. Where the classics have beginnings, middles, and ends that are relevant to the mainstream consciousness of the times, Best Behavior is a couple of days in the life, making it a more honest and useful cultural artifact. — Rebecca Haze.
In ‘Best Behavior’ Noah Cicero tells a story that works on the precise level I can relate to. Every page speaks to me in his own words. He doesn’t bother making shit up. He says what he thinks needs to be said and then he moves forward from there. — Michael Davidson.
The story is told in sharp sentences that still manage to ramble, like Hemingway. It deals with a dream after the fact. It’s like waking up from a dream. The background is that the narrator thought he would/could possibly be a writer, as a “profession.” Five years after the publication of his first book, thats still not the case. This isn’t surreal though. This is real. He wanted to feel at home in NYC. But he can’t. He feels at home in Youngstown. But he doesn’t really feel at home there. He doesn’t feel at home anywhere really. And that is what makes this an American narrative. — Andrew Worthington.

Best Behavior

Literary

Civil Coping Mechanisms

Marking a significant departure from Cicero's fictional and poetic works, Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal is a lucid philosophical treatise. Rather than entertain dogma, Cicero approaches a discussion of Buddhism from the refreshing perspective of the everyman, providing a profound spiritual analysis as well as a sharp critique of capitalism. There are even some pretty good ghost stories. "Buddhism isn't for scholars and priests and masters. It's not a religion. It's for anyone who wants to find a better way. It's practical, it's logical, it's sensible and it's real. Just like this book. "Far too many books about Buddhism get bogged down in scholarly doublespeak. Others are full of far-fetched fantasies. Noah's book isn't like that. It's a real book for real people." -Brad Warner, Author of Hardcore Zen.

Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Trident Business Partners

The supreme introduction to the neurosis of Noah Cicero, The Collected Works of Noah Cicero Vol. I contains the early masterpieces by the greatest minimalist writer ever to hail from Youngstown, Ohio. Collecting Noah Cicero's most acclaimed and popular works, this volume includes the short novels The Human War (soon to be a major motion picture), The Doomed, The Condemned, and Burning Babies, along with rare novellas and short stories that have not been available to the public in years. Stark in their beauty, raw in their sadness, and driven by a desperate compulsion to save - and be saved by - humanity, The Collected Works of Noah Cicero Vol. I highlights what it is to be young and poor in America. Buy this book and learn why freedom is good. Buy this book and become beautiful. Buy this book and know that the distance between you and happiness is the distance between you and the nearest Denny's. So get in the car and drive.

The Collected Works of Noah Cicero Vol. I

Lazy Fascist Press

Meet Mike. Mike wants to be a responsible human, but he's buried in student loans and job prospects are bleak in the down economy. What he needs is a well-paying job that provides health care. This is what leads Mike to accepting a job at NEOTAP, a government-run prison. But NEOTAP is unlike any other prison. NEOTAP is a place where the employees are treated no better than the prisoners. Where your personal conversations are monitored. Wait, do you feel that? That's not the ever-loving presence of God you feel. It's NEOTAP, watching you right now. Worst of all, employees and prisoners alike are disappearing from NEOTAP. People who show up for work one day might be gone the next, their existence erased from all NEOTAP records. After becoming aware of the string of disappearances, Mike and Monica Whitten, a fellow NEOTAP employee, team up to discover the truth behind NEOTAP. But before Mike and Monica discover the violent uprising on the horizon, they will drink pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks, they will watch movies on Netflix, they will form a meaningful relationship in hopes of one day achieving the five pillars of a happy life. Repeat after me: Go to work and do your job. Care for your children. Pay your bills. Obey the law. Buy products.

Go to Work and Do Your Job. Care for Your Children. Pay Your Bills. Obey the Law. Buy Products.

Vasily Krymov is a first-generation Russian immigrant living in Youngstown, Ohio. He drinks coffee at the Waffle House. He drinks rum in seedy strip clubs. He washes dishes at a steakhouse for minimum wage. Through all of it, he thinks of suicide, envisioning grand escapes from his own personal hell. When he discovers a pill bottle full of Oxycontin in the restroom of a bar, Vasily thinks he has found his escape. He and his best friend devise a plant to sell the pills to raise enough money to head out west and escape the squalid streets of Youngstown forever. But for a man like Vasily, escaping one hell only means finding another. A bleak, comedic masterpiece of down-and-outers in decaying America, The Insurgent is Noah Cicero at his minimalistic best. The Collected Works of Noah Cicero Vol. 2 also features three of Noah Cicero's most acclaimed short stories: "Two Old Lovers Bring Out Their Guns," "Visiting My Sister," and "Two Hard Workers."

The Collected Works of Noah Cicero Vol. 2

The first poetry collection by acclaimed cult author Noah Cicero, Bipolar Cowboy is "a book of love poems for all those who loved so deeply it crossed into mental illness." If you've ever loved so much you lost your mind, if you've ever felt inclined to wander into the desert to die alone, then take the bipolar cowboy's hand. He's ready to see you through to the end.

Bipolar Cowboy

On his most recent leg of a quest for belonging that has already taken him from his hometown in suburban Ohio to Arizona to Korea, Billy Cox finds himself at the Grand Canyon. Spiritually marooned and seeking to forget -- or at least find meaning in -- a recent heartbreak, Billy spends a summer as an employee of the National Park. When what he finds resembles chaos more than it does closure, Billy grapples with what may be one of life's inherent uncertainties: what does it mean to really understand ourselves? What happens after we realize we never really do?

Give It to the Grand Canyon

Philosophical Idiot

Bipolar Cowboy is the first poetry collection by prolific cult writer, Noah Cicero. Originally published in 2015 and nominated for the Goodreads Choice award in poetry, this second edition offers a new cover and an introduction by poet Vi Khi Nao.\nDevastatingly sincere and obviously heartbreaking, Bipolar Cowboy traces Noah as he wanders through desert and the throes of a defining breakup.\nIf you've ever gone through a breakup that tried to kill you, you'll get it.

Self-Help

Relationships

Girl Noise Press

I'm not David Foster Wallace. / David Foster Wallace's parents / were professors. / David Foster Wallace had a tiger mom / that was always up his ass. / My mother was high in the basement / on Xanax and painkillers, / watching soap operas. // "Cicero's excellence exists in his one-two of humor and hurt."--THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

Nature Documentary: Poems

Poetry

Independently published

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The Insurgent

Best Behavior

Blood-Soaked Buddha/Hard Earth Pascal

The Collected Works of Noah Cicero Vol. I

Go to Work and Do Your Job. Care for Your Children. Pay Your Bills. Obey the Law. Buy Products.

The Collected Works of Noah Cicero Vol. 2

Bipolar Cowboy

Give It to the Grand Canyon

Bipolar Cowboy

Nature Documentary: Poems