New York Graphic

A delicious, darkly comic work of new urban noir from an original new literary talent.

Meet Virgil Strauss, a physically and emotionally unkempt yet somehow appealing tabloid photographer whose passion is bearing photographic witness—à la Weegee—to the obscene, malevolent and sanguine viscera of New York culture.

To his disapppointment and defeat, The New York Graphic—the city's most renowned shock-based tabloid daily—has routinely rejected Virgil's work. But when Virgil and his friend Larry...