Joe Brainard's I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O'Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember'. Fifty-two years after its original US publication in 1970, this is the first UK edition. 'In simple, forthright, declarative sentences, he charts the map of the human soul and permanently alters the way we look at the world. I Remember is both uproariously funny and deeply moving. It is also one of the few totally original books I have ever read.' Paul Auster 'I would make a case for I Remember as one of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies, important for its air of unimportance and for its mingling of cultural bric-a-brac with sexual frankness and self-revelation.' New Yorker

Art. LGBT Studies. From 1963 through 1978, Joe Brainard created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified by the incongruity of her presence. THE NANCY BOOK is the first collection of Brainard's Nancy texts, drawings, collages and paintings, with full page reproductions of over fifty works, several of which have never been exhibited or published before. In THE NANCY BOOK, Joe Brainard's Nancy traverses high art and low, the poetic and pornographic, the surreal and the absurd. Whether inserted into hypothetical situations, dispatched on erotic adventures, or seemingly rendered by the hands of artists as varied as Leonardo da Vinci, R. Crumb, Larry Rivers, and Willem de Kooning, Brainard's Nancy revels in as well as transcends her two-dimensionality.

Considered an exceptional work ever since its publication in 1970, this book gathers more than 1,000 evocations that begin with the words "I remember." It consists of phrases, most of them brief, that flip a switch in the reader's mind by eliciting images with which several generations from around the world have grown up. The result is an endearing glimpse of Brainard's life and a portrait of the culture and popular imaginary of the United States during the 1940s and 50s. "Considerada una obra excepcional desde su publicacion en 1970, este libro recoge mas de 1.000 evocaciones que empiezan con las palabras "Me acuerdo." Se trata de frases, en su mayoria breves, que activan un resorte en la mente al rescatar imagenes con las que han crecido varias generaciones de todo el mundo. El resultado es una entranable mirada a lo mas intimo de la vida de Brainard y un retrato de la cultura y del imaginario popular de los Estados Unidos de los cuarenta y los cincuenta."