Okay, let’s be real: Bushwick Daily has officially been crushing on Paul Rome for years now. We named him one of our “30 Awesome Bushwick People” back in 2011. We sat down and chatted with him about his 2011 epic audio play called The You Trilogy. We interviewed him and Roarke Menzies about their literary performance, Calypso, in 2012. So when we found out that Rome wrote a novel, we just had to get our hands on it and talk to Rome about how he came about getting published. ASAP.

We All Sleep in the Same Room follows four months in the life of Tom Claughlin, a union lawyer in his professional prime, who lives with his charming three year old son and wife of 21 years in a small, rent-stabilized one bedroom apartment in Union Square. As Tom revs up for a big case – getting a wronged clinic worker her job back – he finds himself spending more and more time with a young legal assistant at his law firm. When he breaks his abstinence from alcohol, a “symbolic pact” with his wife after the last time he got drunk and took things too far with a coworker, the pleasant facade of Tom’s life begins to unravel.