Research Catalog

Title

Let it bleed : essays, 1985-1995 / Gary Indiana.

Author

Indiana, Gary.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : High Risk Books/Serpent's Tail, [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Description

246 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• Gary Indiana's essays, like his fiction, take no prisoners. In his fifteen years of writing cultural criticism, he has altered the way we look at ourselves and our society. Ignoring good taste, Indiana writes discomforting home truths, because his views of home are unique and never comfortable. His insights are acute, brash, bracing, intelligent; his subjects and speculations range from Rodney King's beating to Mary McCarthy's friendship with Hannah Arendt to the presidential campaign of 1992.
• Let it Bleed collects for the first time some of the most engaging, provocative, and exciting writing that has been seen and produced in a long time.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Northern Exposure -- Disneyland Burns -- Town of the Living Dead -- Tough Love and Carbon Monoxide in Detroit -- L.A. Plays Itself -- Being and Nothingness American Style -- Gore Vidal's Screening History -- The Beauty Treatment -- The P and I -- Writing Dangerously -- Paul Schrader's Mishima -- The Sex Factory -- Otto Hypnosis -- Jonathan Ned Katz's Gay Science -- The Dark Side of Gilbert and George -- Herve Guibert's To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life -- Death Notices -- Emma Tennant's Higher Powers -- Debby with Monument: a Dissenting Opinion -- All I Need is Love -- The Farewell Party -- Hannah and Her Sister.

ISBN

1852423323 (pbk.) :

LCCN

95071068

OCLC

ocm35301459

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries