Noah Cicero: Best Behavior

The United States Constitution: I got that book as soon as I was born. I was within the border of America, it was my fate. I came out of my mother's vagina and someone came in the room wearing a military uniform, pointed a gun at my head, and then threw the The U.S. Constitution at me. I took it and said, “Goo, goo, gaa, gaa.” My mother smiled, talked about Isiah Berlin for a while and said, “This baby will grow up to be a terrible jackass.” Everyone in the room laughed because they had contracted together to spend the next 18 years raising a jackass instead of an emotional stable well-balanced well-ordered high functioning individual.

Noah Cicero is the author of The Human War (Fugue State Press, 2003), The Condemned (Six Gallery Press, 2006), Burning Babies (Parlor Press, 2006), Treatise (A-Head Publishing, 2008), and The Insurgent (Blatt, 2010). Since its release, The Human War has become a favorite of the literary underground and is being adapted to film. This is his sixth novel.