The Reluctant Guru of Alphabet City—A Novel

A witty and irreverent novel set in New York City's gritty Alphabet City neighborhood, where an unlikely spiritual teacher stumbles into a role he never wanted. Blending sharp humor with genuine insight, this story asks what wisdom really looks like in the modern urban jungle.

Larry Lentchner, Ph.D., is a practicing psychologist. Over the years he developed interest and expertise in the treatment of drug addiction, sports psychology, hemisphericity, and consciousness evolution. As terrorism began to take its vicious hold on life and emotional health, Dr. Lentchner began to work through his understanding of the origins and dynamics of terroristic consciousness. This effort, over a decade in the making, led to the novel Onederland. Dr. Lentchner lives in Branchville, New Jersey, with his wife, Kathleen. He has four children and five grandchildren. He maintains a small practice of psychotherapy, leaving him time to write.