Read Or Download Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984?2021 By Gary Indiana Full Pages.

The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting edge film, art, and literature.Whether he?s describing Tracy Emin or Warhol, the films of Barbet Schroeder (?Schroeder is well aware that life is not a narrative; that we impose form on the movements of chance, contingency, and impulse....?) or the installations of Barbara Kruger (?Kruger compresses the telling exchanges of lived experience that betray how skewed our lives are??), Indiana is never just describing. His writing is refreshing, erudite, joyful.Indiana champions shining examples of literary and artistic merit regardless of whether the individual artist or writer is famous; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment; is unafraid to deliver the coup de gr?ce when someone needs to say the emperor has no clothes; speaks in the same breath?in the same
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