Utopia's debris : selected essays / Gary Indiana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Indiana, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Basic Books, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The very finest from the scabrous, satirical, and always sublime Gary Indiana.

Contents:

CONTENTS; By Way of a Preface ix; Acknowledgments xi; P A R T I DESERTSHORE; Barbara Kruger: The War at Home 3; Kindergarten Governor 9; Murdering the Dead 17; Pretty Vacant 23; Gavin Lambert (1924-2005): The Goodbye Person 27; P A R T I I THE INFERNAL EVIDENCE; Even Cowboys Get the Blues 39; The Madness of the Day 45; Testosterone Express 51; Homicide Can Be Such a Drag 55; About Mary Woronov 61; Daniel Schmid's La Paloma 65; William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) 69; That Awful Mess at the Governor's Mansion 77; P A R T I I I SURREALISMS AND THE POWER OF EMOTION; Of Caroline Blackwood 89

Wurlitzer's Wiles 99Bulle Ogier, Phenomenon Without a Pause 111; Cunning, Exile, Contingency 121; Germany Inside Him: Rainer Fassbinder and the Spell of Dystopia 131; Vienna III, Kundmanngasse 19 137; Major Motifs 165; Curzio Malaparte 171; Conjuror of St Germain 183; Emmanuel Carrère's Counterfeiters 191; P A R T I V AND THE FOG COMES ROLLING IN; The Excremental Republic 207; Überdolls 215; The Gearworks of Doom 219; Don't Buy Us With Sorry After Burning Down the Barn 227; Sublime Pariah: Céline's Voyages into the Whirlwind 233; Amnesia and Its Double 249; Blame It On Brio 253

No Such Thing as Paranoia 259P A R T V UTOPIA'S DEBRIS; Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate 277; Susan Sontag (1933-2004) 285; Robert Bresson: Hidden in Plain Sight 291; Simenon l'Incroyable 295; Weill, Brecht, Mahagonny 299

Notes:

Consists of articles and essays mainly written between 1996 and 2008.

ISBN:

0-7867-2709-8

OCLC:

646769312