Last Seen Entering the Biltmore Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975-2010

by Indiana, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781584350903
• ISBN10: 1584350903
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-05
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Summary

Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Crazy, in 1987, Gary Indiana wrote and directed twelve plays for an informal company whose performers included the painter Bill Rice, composer Evan Lurie, the poet George-Therese Dickenson, writer and film actress Cookie Mueller, Warhol superstar and painter Viva, writer Victoria Pedersen, singer/actress Sharon Niesp, photographer Allen Frame, the legendary Taylor Mead, novelist Larry Mitchell, and others. Performed at the Mudd Club, Club 57, The Performing Garage, and Bill Rice's E. 3rd Street studio, Indiana's plays offered a kind of community theater for New York's underground. This volume presents highlights of that repertoire, including Alligator Girls Go to College, The Roman Polanski Story, and Indiana's script for Michel Auder's videofilm A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking, accompanied by archival performance photographs and selections from Indiana's contemporaneous journals and poems. These hilarious, incisive writings and scripts evoke a vivid and accurate portrait of writers and artists in the lower Manhattan of the 1980s-arguably America's last avant-garde-and anticipates Indiana's impressive subsequent literary career. Native Agents series Distributed for Semiotext(e)

Author Biography

Gary Indiana is a novelist, playwright, critic, essayist, filmmaker, and artist. Hailed by the Guardian as “one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche,” and by the Observer as "one of the most woefully underappreciated writers of the last 30 years," he published a memoir, I Can Give You Anything But Love, in 2015. He is also the author of Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story and Resentment: A Comedy (both published by Semiotex(e)).

Table of Contents

America the Large	p. 7
Hollywood Signs	p. 9
Tough Broad, an Autobiography	p. 17
One Said	p. 20
Sex (1)	p. 21
What's Wrong with Him	p. 22
Proposed Plaque for the Port Authority	p. 23
Introduction: The Theater of the Obvious	p. 25
Alligator Girls Go to College	p. 28
Jack by Popular Demand	p. 66
Curse of the Dog People	p. 70
Time Is the Echo of an Axe	p. 93
Rock 'n' Roll Funeral Party, 1st night	p. 97
Rock 'n' Roll Funeral Party, 2nd night	p. 101
Summertime	p. 104
Hyenas of Babylon	p. 106
And a Putrid Time Was Had by All	p. 111
I'm Dreaming of a White Hitler (Response to Patti)	p. 113
Phone Call	p. 114
Et Cetera	p. 115
A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking	p. 117
The Roman Polanski Story	p. 154
Bomb Magazine Interview	p. 185
You All Know What You're Here For	p. 199
Success	p. 203
If You Must Sit on the Face of Jesus	p. 205
One More Night in the Land of Green Bananas	p. 207
Phantoms of Louisiana	p. 208
A Book of Strangers	p. 259
Summer with Rita	p. 265
Roy Cohn	p. 275
Epilogue: The Five Percent Paradox	p. 291
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