The Book
A Little Trouble With the Facts is now available in all major bookstores from HarperCollins Publishers. The HarperCollins page tells where you can find the novel at your local bookstore: click here for more info. You can also order the book online at Barnes & Noble.com, or Amazon.com.
Nina Siegal’s debut novel, A Little Trouble With the Facts, is a hardboiled satire of New York’s late-1990’s boom. This charming and witty book, set at a major metropolitan newspaper (much like The New York Times) circa 1999, brings you behind the scenes of New York’s media, fine art world, and graffiti culture, and even into the bathrooms of some of the city’s best-loved, and fictionalized, celebs. Borrowing its style from the American hardboiled novels of the 1920s and 30s (Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett), the noir films of the 1940s and 50s, and the political roman a clef, A Little Trouble With the Facts is a genre-hybrid that somehow also makes perfect contemporary sense.
Publishers’ Weekly says, “Siegal, a former journalist, blends glamour and gutter into a delicious cocktail, equal parts behind-the-scenes dish and crime novel.” The Washington Post’s “Media Mix” column says, “What you’ll love: Siegal’s talent for nailing the detail that illuminates an era — from the mid 1980s art boom to the late 1990s social swirl — makes for a transporting read.”
A Little Trouble With the Facts is also available now on Books On Tape and as an Kindle Edition. It has been published in Dutch by Truth & Dare Publishers, and in French (’Une petite entorse à la vérité’) available from Marabout.