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"One of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche." —The Guardian
Whether he's describing Tracy Emin or Warhol, the films of Barbet Schroeder ("Schroeder is well aware that life is not a narrative; that we impose form on the movements of chance, contingency, and impulse . . .") or the installations of Barbara Kruger ("Kruger compresses the telling exchanges of lived experience that betray how skewed our lives are . . ."), Indiana is never just describing. His writing is refreshing, erudite, joyful.
Indiana champions shining examples of literary and artistic merit regardless of whether the individual artist or writer is famous; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment; is unafraid to deliver the coup de grâce when someone needs to say the emperor has no clothes; speaks in the same breath—in the same discerning, insolent, eloquent way—about high art and pop culture. Few writers could get away with saying the things Gary Indiana does. And when the writing is this good, it's also political, plus it's a riot of fun.
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“Each entry is marked by vivid imagery and the author’s scathing, eloquent wit: ‘There is acid in everything Indiana writes, but it is of the sort that acts as a purifying agent,’ Christian Lorentzen writes in the introduction.”
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“Spans almost forty years of stellar criticism."
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About Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana (1950–2024) was a novelist, playwright, actor, art critic, and film historian, considered one of the most supple and imaginative figures in contemporary American culture. He was called "one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche" by the London Guardian. He wrote numerous plays, novels, and works of nonfiction, including Horse Crazy, Rent Boy, and Utopia’s Debris. Formerly the chief art critic for the Village Voice, he also wrote for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York magazine, Artforum, and the London Review of Books.
About Charles Constant
Charles Constant is an actor whose professional storytelling career began at the age of thirteen, when he became an Actors’ Equity Association apprentice. An accomplished audiobook narrator, he has recorded many popular titles, including How to Win at the Sport of Business by Mark Cuban.