Author Jeffrey Eugenides Punched By Drunk

On Sunday, The New York Post reported that Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Eugenides was attacked on a New Jersey train on his way home from Manhattan last week by one of two inebriated men who were singing songs about their penises.

When a female passenger approached the drunken duo about keeping their inappropriate conversation down, they ignored her request and continued to sing about their genitalia, eventually calling friends to sing their song. Eugenides allegedly grabbed a cellphone from the men and got punched in the face by one of them. The attacker promptly fled the scene. The aftermath of the attack was noticed, however, when Eugenides attended a Paris Review party for his new book, "The Marriage Plot," sporting a black eye and stitches.

Euginedes's long-awaited new book, "The Marriage Plot," tells the story of an unrequited love triangle set in the 80s and is set to be released this October. It has already received rave reviews based on the two excerpts that appeared in The New Yorker last year. This will be Eugenides' first book since his 2002 bestseller "Middlesex" which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.

Comments

[Blarg]

02:12 PM on 07/29/2011

Hate to say it, but it sounds like the guy kinda had it coming. Go grabbing things out of stranger's hands and the first physical aggressor is you, not the other guy.

[genrel1248]

10:27 PM on 07/26/2011

Well it had to be done and now I'm glad I dont have to do it.

[Existentialist]

01:20 PM on 07/26/2011

This story may indeed be more interesting than Eugenides's next novel. But could we have the lyrics to the song, please?

[Bogey907]

12:23 PM on 07/26/2011

I think I saw this movie already.

[DaniFoxy]

08:53 AM on 07/26/2011

Was one of the attackers Michael Palin?

[oldrazor]

08:11 PM on 07/25/2011

Jeffery, that's not how Ernest Hemingway would've handled the situation. Of course, it's anyone's guess whether Papa would have boxed the inebriates, joined them for drinks, or critiqued their rhyme schemes and meter.

[ChrisRoberts]

08:24 PM on 07/25/2011

Hemingway wasn't really much of a fighter, rather he indulged in trophy hunting and left the meat to rot. No, he would of joined the drunk and in a self-sorry haze contemplated what he always did: suicide.

[John David Redux]

08:36 PM on 07/25/2011

We just wish you would start contemplating it, or rather start doing it.

Let me guess: "Oh, no, YOU'RE the one that should start contemplating it or doing it!"

[ChrisRoberts]

05:56 PM on 07/25/2011

Getting beat up by drunk means Jeffery Eugenides can't legitimately write about tough guys.

[Wookiee1972]

04:16 PM on 07/25/2011

"On Sunday, The New York Post reported that Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffery Eugenides was attacked on a New Jersey train on his way home from Manhattan last week by one of two inebriated men who were singing songs about their penises"

This sounds like a story hook!

[O K Ali]

03:49 PM on 07/25/2011

It's not like he got punched by a critic.

[rockyoumonkeys]

01:12 PM on 07/25/2011

I can't say what I really want, so instead I'll just say that "The Virgin Suicides" might be the worst thing I've read in the past ten years.

[threnodymarch]

02:55 PM on 07/25/2011

What didn't you like about it?

[psychoticdream]

12:16 PM on 07/26/2011

it didnt nudie pictures probably.