M.P. Ragon

His fiction is rooted in dirty realism, exploring desire, loneliness, memory, and the contradictions of human relationships.

He is the author of The Bottles Still Standing and the forthcoming Wine for Breakfast, the first two volumes of The Wine Trilogy. These novels-in-stories follow Nilo Corsini, a man who moves through countries, jobs, and relationships, carrying with him the very things he believes he is leaving behind.

From Italian port cities to Southeast Asia, these stories explore grief, precarious lives, sex, wine, and the seldom-admitted need for someone to reach out.

His writing combines brisk dialogue, raw physical detail, and dark humor, without turning failure into a virtue or pleasure into a sin.

At the heart of his work are imperfect people: capable of affection and cruelty, of clear-eyed insights and ridiculous excuses. People who are often very good at explaining why they keep getting things wrong.