Last seen entering the Biltmore : plays, short fiction, poems, 1975-2010 /
Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Crazy, in 1989, Gary Indiana wrote and directed twelve plays for an informal company whose performers included the painter Bill Rice, composer Evan Lurie, the poet George-Therese Dickenson, writer and film actress Cookie Mueller, Warhol superstar a...
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| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles, CA : Cambridge, Mass. :
Semiotext(e) ; Distributed by the MIT Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Semiotext(e) native agents series.
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| Summary: | Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Crazy, in 1989, Gary Indiana wrote and directed twelve plays for an informal company whose performers included the painter Bill Rice, composer Evan Lurie, the poet George-Therese Dickenson, writer and film actress Cookie Mueller, Warhol superstar and painter Viva, writer Victoria Pedersen, singer/actress Sharon Niesp, photographer Allen Frame, the legendary Taylor Mead, novelist Larry Mitchell, and others. Performed at the Mudd Club, Club 57, The Performing Garage, and Bill Rice's East 3rd Street studio, Indiana's plays offered a kind of community theater for New York's underground. This volume presents highlights of that repertoire, including Alligator Girls Go to College, The Roman Polanski Story, and Indiana's script for Michel Auder's videofilm A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking, accompanied by archival performance photographs and selections from Indiana's contemporaneous short stories and poems. These hilarious, incisive writings and scripts evoke a vivid and accurate portrait of writers and artists in the lower Manhattan of the 1980sùarguably America's last avant-gardeùand anticipate Indiana's impressive subsequent literary career. Indiana teaches literature at The New School in New York City. --Book Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 311 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781584350903 1584350903 |