Do Everything in the Dark
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Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana
Faced with photos of a once-tumultuous New York art world, the narrator's mind in this scathing, darkly funny novel begins to erupt. Memories jostle for center stage, just as those that they are about always did. These brilliant but broken survivors of the '80s and '90s have now reached the brink of middle age and are facing the challenge of continuing to feel authentic.Luminous with imagery, cackling with bitter humor, this roman clef spares no one. It's a canny portrait of one era's vaporization, and a study of the perpetual need that some of us feel to reconstruct ourselves-atom by atom.
An actor, playwright, artist, poet, critic, and novelist who has chronicled the despair and hysteria of America in the late twentieth century, Gary Indiana was born in 1950 in New Hampshire. From Horse Crazy (1989), a tale of feverish love set against the backdrop of downtown New York amid the AIDS epidemic, to Do Everything in the Dark (2003), a desolate frieze of New York's aging bohemians (n+1), Indiana's novels mix horror and bathos, grim social commentary with passages of tenderest, frailest desire. With 1997's Resentment: A Comedy, Indiana began his true crime trilogy, following up with Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story (1999) and Depraved Indifference (2002). Together, the three novels show the most vicious crimes in our nation's history to be only American pathologies personified. In 2015, Indiana published his acclaimed anti-memoir, I Can Give You Anything But Love. Called one of the most brilliant critics writing in America today by the London Review of Books, the punk poet and pillar of lower-Manhattan society by Jamaica Kincaid, and one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche by the Guardian, Gary Indiana remains both inimitable and impossible to pin down.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781635901863 |
| ISBN 10 | 1635901863 |
| Title | Do Everything in the Dark |
| Author | Gary Indiana |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Semiotext (E) |
| Year published | 2023-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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