An actor, playwright, photographer poet, critic, and novelist who
has chronicled the despair and hysteria of America in the late
twentieth century, Gary Indiana was born in 1950 in New Hampshire.
From Horse Crazy (1989), a tale of feverish love set against the
backdrop of downtown New York amid the AIDS epidemic, to Do
Everything in the Dark (2003), "a desolate frieze of New York's
aging bohemians" (n+1), Indiana's novels mix horror and bathos,
grim social commentary with passages of tenderest, frailest desire.
With 1997's Resentment- A Comedy, Indiana began a true crime
trilogy, following up with Three Month Fever- The Andrew Cunanan
Story (1999) and Depraved Indifference (2002). In 2015, Indiana
published his acclaimed anti-memoir, I Can Give You Anything But
Love. Called "the most brilliant critics writing in America today"
by the London Review of Books, "the pink poet and pillar of
lower-Manhattan society" by Jamaica Kincaid, and "one of the most
important chroniclers of the modern psyche" by the Guardian, Gary
Indiana remains both inimitable and impossible to pin down.
Sarah Nicole Prickett has written for New York Times magazine and
n+1.
“Horribly refreshing, like an ice-cold glass of acid on a
sweltering summer day . . . Indiana writes with an art critic’s eye
for detail and a poet’s ear for language.” –Philadelphia
Inquirer
“A novel too weird and perverted and frankly minacious to stay in
print, too unforgettable not to be reissued.” –Sarah Nicole
Prickett, from the introduction
“A disturbing, vivid, and brutal novel that succeeds in its dizzy
mix of genres and influences. Not for the prudish, though.” –Kirkus
Reviews
“Amazingly perverse, savagely amusing, unflinchingly serious. It
may be in fact be the first really serious work of the imagination
to come out of the AIDS catastrophe.” –Michael Herr, author
of Dispatches
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