Good People

By Steven Key Meyers

In the mid-1980s, "Rolling Stone" proclaims comedy "the rock and roll of the Eighties," inspiring Rex Black, owner of the Upper East Side dive that is New York's hottest comedy club, to sell stock and brand the zeitgeist for his own!

Rex scouts new clients, builds new clubs, recruits Wall Street titan Siggy Brewster to handle an IPO, appeases his Mafioso landlord (without paying the rent), pitches private placements in Tuxedo Park and plays chicken with Madonna in a Central Park running lane. His wife Perri helps Rex chase his dreams, as do Ashley, his blue-blooded club booker; his assistant, Michael, and Michael's partner, bar manager Conor; and irrepressible Joey (A&R, for the empire's music side). Circling them, her fin hardly breaking the waves, sniffing for the blood she senses will soon dye the water—desperate for her break—is comedian Rosetta Stone.

Fast and funny, incisive and heartfelt, "Good People"--written by a former comedy insider--plumbs the American appetite to sum up an era of greed and surreal ambition. "A crackling good read, a satirical foray into the comedy club boom and go-go business culture of the ’80s." —Toronto Post City Magazines

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven Key Meyers
• Release date: Nov 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301618323

Steven Key Meyers

Steven Key Meyers was born on a farm in western Colorado and studied English Lit at CCNY and Columbia. He has self-published numerous novels, including Good People ("a crackling good read"-Toronto Post City Magazines); Queer's Progress; My Mad Russian: Three Tales ("dense, exciting novellas about love and greed"-Kirkus Reviews); Springtime in Siena; The Wedding on Big Bone Hill; All That Money ("the kind of novel Chandler or Hammet might write today"-M. Lee Alexander); Another's Fool ("confident and stylish"-Kirkus); The Last Posse and Junkie, Indiana ("skillfully captures the grim depths"-Kirkus), books that chronicle a great nation's precipitous decline. He is also the author of a memoir of being a teenaged underbutler, I Remember Caramoor: A Memoir and of a biographical study of a once-famous American painter, The Man in the Balloon: Harvey Joiner's Wondrous 1877, and most recently of a book of plays, A Journal of the Plague Year, and Other Plays and Adaptations.