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Rent Boy (Paperback)
Gary Indiana
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Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo
Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a
voodoo prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the
ocean - and humanity - from disaster. But first she must become the
man she always was - with the help of a sacred anemone.Tentacle is
an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging
headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba
ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary
art. Bursting with punk energy and lyricism, it's a restless,
addictive trip: The Tempest meets the telenovela.
A groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of
incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the
first women's prison What if prisoners were to write the history of
their own prison? What might that tell them-and all of us-about the
roots of the system that incarcerates so many millions of
Americans? In this groundbreaking and revelatory volume, a group of
incarcerated women at the Indiana Women's Prison have assembled a
chronicle of what was originally known as the Indiana Reformatory
Institute for Women and Girls, founded in 1873 as the first totally
separate prison for women in the United States. In an effort that
has already made the national news, and which was awarded the
Indiana History Outstanding Project for 2016 by the Indiana
Historical Society, the Indiana Women's Prison History Project
worked under conditions of sometimes-extreme duress, excavating
documents, navigating draconian limitations on what information
incarcerated scholars could see or access, and grappling with the
unprecedented challenges stemming from co-authors living on either
side of the prison walls. With contributions from ten incarcerated
or formerly incarcerated women, the result is like nothing ever
produced in the historical literature: a document that is at once a
shocking revelation of the roots of America's first prison for
women, and also a meditation on incarceration itself. Who Would
Believe a Prisoner? is a book that will be read and studied for
years to come as the nation continues to grapple with the crisis of
mass incarceration.
A sardonic and artful reconstruction of the brief life of the party
boy who became a media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace.It was
suddenly chic to be "targeted" by Andrew.... It also became chic to
claim a deep personal friendship with Versace, to infer that one
might, but for a trick of fate, have been with Versace at the very
moment of his "assassination," as it had once been chic to reveal
one's invitation to Cielo Drive in the evening of the Tate
slayings, an invitation only declined because of car trouble or a
previous engagement... -from Three Month Fever First published in
1999, Gary Indiana's Three Month Fever is the second volume of his
famed crime trilogy, now being republished by Semiotext(e). (The
first, Resentment, reissued in 2015, was set in a Menendez
trial-era L.A.) In this brilliant and gripping hybrid of narrative
and reflection, Indiana considers the way the media's hypercoverage
transformed Andrew Cunanan's life "from the somewhat poignant and
depressing but fairly ordinary thing it was into a narrative
overripe with tabloid evil." "America loves a successful
sociopath," Indiana explains. This sardonic and artful
reconstruction of the brief life of the party boy who became a
media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace is a spellbinding
fusion of journalism, social commentary, and novelistic projection.
By following Cunanan's notorious "trail of death," Indiana creates
a compelling portrait of a brilliant, charismatic young man whose
pathological lies made him feel more like other people-and more
interesting than he actually was. Born in a working-class exurb of
San Diego and educated at an elite private school, Cunanan strove
to "blend in" with the upscale gay male scene in La Jolla. He ended
up crazed and alone, eventually embarking on a three-month killing
spree that took the lives of five men, including that of Versace,
before killing himself in a Miami boathouse, leaving behind a range
of unanswerable questions and unsolvable mysteries. "Gary Indiana
belongs to a special breed of American urban writers who take cool
pleasure in dissecting the lives of the rich and ugly and is
possibly the most jaded chronicler of them all. On a good day, he
makes Bret Easton Ellis look like Enid Blyton, yet many, myself
included, think he might have already written the Great America
Novel(s)." -Christopher Fowler, The Independent
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Made in Saturn (Paperback)
Rita Indiana; Translated by Sydney Hutchinson
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These are the children of revolutions, and this is their story.
This is the Caribbean. This is Argenis Luna: an artist who no
longer paints, a heroin addict who no longer uses, and an overgrown
child trying to make sense of his inheritance in a country where
his once-revolutionary father is now part of the ruling elite.
Thrown out of rehab in Havana, with Goya's tyrannical god Saturn on
his mind, Argenis picks his way through the detritus of an
abandoned generation: the drag queens, artists, hustlers and lovers
trying to build lives amidst the wreckage. Mesmerising and
visionary, Made in Saturn is a hangover from a riotous funeral, a
rapid-fire elegy for the revolutionary spirit, and a glimpse of
hope for all who feel eclipsed by those who came before them.
ToWhom It May Concern is one of the final projects Louise Bourgeois
completed, and is an apt demonstration of the enduring power of her
work. Rich pinks, purples, reds and blues describe bodies
comprising swollen bellies, heavy breasts, engorged phalluses and
stooped torsos are presented in a series of pairings on facing
pages. Deceptively simple in design, the varying intensity and
range of colour within each figure reveals a dynamism in each
repeated coupling of these headless, limbless bodies: male and
female at their essential, and the relationship between the two,
changing but the same. Indiana's short, visceral but lyrical texts
are interspersed throughout and form a conversation with these
images, an unconventional non-narrative, part of a broader dialogue
about the barrier of flesh, about desire and intimacy. This
Violette Editions publication, developed in collaboration with The
Easton Foundation, faithfully reproduces in reduced size the
original large-format artists' book, made in fabric in an edition
of seven.
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 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.
Set in the rolling hills of southern Indiana, Indiana University
Bloomington is widely acknowledged to be one of the most
picturesque college campuses in the United States Indiana
University: New Portraits of the Bloomington Campus offers Hoosiers
the chance to discover or revisit the campus for themselves and
appreciate stunning new buildings and improvements in landscaping
and facilities. During its two-hundred-year history, the
Bloomington campus has grown out from its original core while
maintaining its focus on its architectural atheistic. Indiana
University Bloomington now occupies nearly 2,000 acres, and the
beauty and harmony of its limestone buildings set against
breathtaking natural scenery make the campus a treasure that all
Hoosiers enjoy. Indiana University: New Portraits of the
Bloomington Campus offers Hoosiers the chance to travel back home,
relive past friendships, scholarly achievements, Little Fives, and
Hoosier victories, and wander again, if just for a moment, through
Dunn's Woods, the Cox Arboretum, and the iconic Sample Gates.
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Gone Tomorrow (Paperback)
Gary Indiana; Foreword by Sarah Nicole Prickett
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