A modern love story, I Regret Everything confronts the oceanic uncertainty of what it means to be alive, and in love. Jeremy Best, a Manhattan-based trusts and estates lawyer, leads a second life as published poet Jinx Bell.  To his boss’s daughter, Spaulding Simonson, at 33 years old, Jeremy is already halfway to dead.  When Spaulding, an aspiring 19-year-old writer, discovers Mr. Best’s alter poetic ego, the two become bound by a devotion to poetry, and an awareness that time in this world is limited.  Their budding relationship strikes at the universality of love and loss, as Jeremy and Spaulding confront their vulnerabilities, revealing themselves to one another and the world for the very first time.
 
A skilled satirist with a talent for biting humor, Greenland creates fully realized characters that quickly reveal themselves as complex renderings of the human condition – at its very best, and utter worst. I Regret Everything explores happiness and heartache with a healthy dose of skepticism, and an understanding that the reality of love encompasses life, death, iambic pentameter, regret, trusts and estates.

Seth Greenland was a writer-producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO series Big Love and one of the original bloggers for the Huffington Post.  He is an award-winning playwright and the author of the novels The Angry Buddhist, The Bones and Shining City, which was named a Best Book of 2008 by the Washington Post.  Greenland lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

Categories

• Fiction / Literary

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Product Details

ISBN: 9781609452476
ISBN-10: 160945247X
Publisher: Europa Editions
Publication Date: February 3rd, 2015
Pages: 256
Language: English

Recommended Reading Level

Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: UP
Minimum Grade Level: UP
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Praise for I Regret Everything

"Affecting and funny."—The New York Times 

“Edgy and sweet, witty and wise, I Regret Everything is rollicking good fun. It’s also, in the end, a deeply moving love story between two unforgettable characters discovering what it means to truly be alive.”—Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette

“Greenland hits all the right notes…His playful, well-crafted writing captures personality or atmosphere in a few phrases, and the characters’ self-assessments reveal the rich inner lives driving their actions. Their love comes from the mind as much as the heart, in a poignant story of dreams and the way they can crash into the reality of the dreamers.”—Booklist

“Greenland, a former writer for the TV show Big Love, has a clear and snappy handle on the New York City worlds of M.F.A.s, M.F.A. dropouts, and poetry workshops, as well as their counterpoint in the Sutton Place penthouses of Jeremy’s wealthy clients.”—Publishers Weekly


Praise for The Angry Buddhist

“The Angry Buddhist is a great novel.  It’s satirical, it’s political, it’s sexual.  All the things that I love dearly.  Finally, something to come home to.” –Larry David, Creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld
 
“A wild entertainment as well as a novel about the way we live now that dares to dance with the profound.” –L.A. Times
 
“The Angry Buddhist approaches all its characters with reliable misanthropy (not for nothing does Larry David provide this book’s most visible blurb).  And its story unfolds with dexterous ease… a fine, high-end beach read for this election season.” –New York Times