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OverviewPreviously unpublished plays and writings by one of today's foremost satirical authors.Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Crazy, in 1987, Gary Indiana wrote and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 E. 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 journals and poems. These hilarious, incisive writings and scripts evoke a vivid and accurate portrait of writers and artists in the lower Manhattan of the 1980s-arguably America's last avant-garde-and anticipates Indiana's impressive subsequent literary career. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gary Indiana , Chris KrausPublisher: Autonomedia Imprint: Semiotext (E) Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781584350903ISBN 10: 1584350903 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 05 November 2010 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<p> In our era of frenzied consumerism and rising political and culturalconservatism Gary Indiana's plays, poems, and prose offer a needed alternative, independent approach to artistic production. -- Eleanor Whitney, New York Foundation of the Arts In our era of frenzied consumerism and rising political and cultural conservatism Gary Indiana's plays, poems, and prose offer a needed alternative, independent approach to artistic production. -- <b>Eleanor Whitney</b> * <i>New York Foundation of the Arts</i> * ... this collection's thirty-five-year coverage is a strong starting point for anyone unfamiliar with the author's work. * <i>Rain Taxi Review of Books</i> * Last Seen makes for both a noteworthy survey of Indiana's work and a testimony of the raw, urgent beauty of the seventies and eighties art scenes in Los Angeles and Manhattan.... Last Seen is, ultimately, an important clarion call by a charismatic and candid voice. * <i>Review of Contemporary Fiction</i> * Last Seen makes for both a noteworthy survey of Indiana's work and a testimony of the raw, urgent beauty of the seventies and eighties art scenes in Los Angeles and Manhattan.... Last Seen is, ultimately, an important clarion call by a charismatic and candid voice. -Review of Contemporary Fiction ... this collection's thirty-five-year coverage is a strong starting point for anyone unfamiliar with the author's work. -Rain Taxi Review of Books In our era of frenzied consumerism and rising political and cultural conservatism Gary Indiana's plays, poems, and prose offer a needed alternative, independent approach to artistic production. -Eleanor Whitney, New York Foundation of the Arts Author Information"Gary Indiana is a novelist, playwright, critic, essayist, filmmaker, and artist. Hailed by the Guardian as ""one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche,"" and by the Observer as ""one of the most woefully underappreciated writers of the last 30 years,"" he published a memoir, I Can Give You Anything But Love, in 2015." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |