I Can Give You Anything But Love
by Gary Indiana /
2015 / English / EPUB
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The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical
writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of
Books as one of “the most brilliant critics writing in America
today,” Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by
turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic
establishments.
The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical
writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of
Books as one of “the most brilliant critics writing in America
today,” Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by
turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic
establishments.
With
WithI Can Give You Anything but Love,
I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary Indiana has
composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of
excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up
gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the
post–summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and
ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide
downtown personality. Interspersed throughout his vivid
recollections are present-day chapters set against the louche
culture and raw sexuality of Cuba, where he has lived and worked
occasionally for the past fifteen years. Connoisseurs will
recognize in this—his most personal book yet—the same mixture of
humor and realism, philosophy and immediacy, that have long
confused the definitions of genre applied to his writing. Vivid,
atmospheric, revealing, and entertaining, this is an engrossing
read and a serious contribution to the genres of gay and literary
memoir.
Gary Indiana has
composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of
excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up
gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the
post–summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and
ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide
downtown personality. Interspersed throughout his vivid
recollections are present-day chapters set against the louche
culture and raw sexuality of Cuba, where he has lived and worked
occasionally for the past fifteen years. Connoisseurs will
recognize in this—his most personal book yet—the same mixture of
humor and realism, philosophy and immediacy, that have long
confused the definitions of genre applied to his writing. Vivid,
atmospheric, revealing, and entertaining, this is an engrossing
read and a serious contribution to the genres of gay and literary
memoir.