The Wolfboy of Rego Park | Jeffrey Wengrofsky
Half pre-adolescent gothic fantasia, half inter-species rumor mongering, and half amulet of protection, The Wolfboy of Rego Park is jam-packed with fists of fury, monstrous characterization, puerile recklessness and looney tunes ruminations set afloat in a gooey colloidal suspension. Pin your hair down and take a spin on this merry-go-round of wayward urban woolgathering.
Release Date: September 26, 2023
Format: 4”x7” Paperback
ISBN: 9798985806786
Reviews of The Wolfboy of Rego Park
“Wengrofsky’ s literary debut dazzles with surreal charm. The first story had me biting my nails. The second had me locking the door. By the third story, I saw it: a comic book with this skinny, bespectacled kid as a spy hero exacting revenge on crazy monsters. And that’s just the beginning!”
— Exene Cervenka, X
“Jeff Wengrofsky’s compact collection of autobiographical fever dream vignettes is delightfully ghoulish, hilariously traumatic, and most of all genuinely touching. A gritty Pilgrim’s Progress through the unnerving underbelly of a long-gone unromanticized New York City, Wengrofsky recounts with a sensitive but unsparing touch the foibles, follies, and aspirations of his youth.”
—Jim Sclavunos, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
“Jeffrey Wengrofsky is… a Renaissance Jew. And now he’s coming out with…The Wolfboy of Rego Park. In it, he’s a Jewish Virgil leading you on a stoner sojourn in the New York underground, replete with monsters, hardcore punks, anarchist revolutionaries, and your everyday sleazoids creeping in the shadows. What more can you want??”
— Larry “Ratso” Sloman, author, producer, bandleader, multi-hyphenate, former editor, National Lampoon
“By turns elegiac, nauseating, and (literally) riotous…Wolfboy of Rego Park laments a New York City that’s gone but not forgotten...yet. I’ ve never encountered a character quite like Wolfboy’s real-life hero. I read this book, riveted, in a single sitting.”
— Adam Sexton, Department of English, Yale University
“In the grand tradition of literature and film that evoke the seedy, menacing charms of urban New York, The Wolfboy of Rego Park is a rumbling subway car filled with alluring artifacts of the racy, gritty subculture that inspired Beat poets, Punk rockers and street radicals, and imbued childhood memories with life lessons both menacing and warm. A witty and entertaining ride.”