LATEST SALES & OFFERS: PROMOTIONS

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Last Seen Entering the Biltmore

Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975–2010

Gary Indiana Chris Kraus

$32.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
Semiotext (E)
05 November 2010
Previously unpublished plays and writings by one of today's foremost satirical authors.

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.
By:  
Series edited by:  
Imprint:   Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   499g
ISBN:   9781584350903
ISBN 10:   1584350903
Series:   Last Seen Entering the Biltmore
Pages:   312
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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)).

Reviews for Last Seen Entering the Biltmore: Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975–2010

Last Seen makes for both a noteworthy survey of Indiana's work and a testimony of the raw, urgent beauty of the seventies and eighties art scenes in Los Angeles and Manhattan.... Last Seen is, ultimately, an important clarion call by a charismatic and candid voice. -Review of Contemporary Fiction ... this collection's thirty-five-year coverage is a strong starting point for anyone unfamiliar with the author's work. -Rain Taxi Review of Books In our era of frenzied consumerism and rising political and cultural conservatism Gary Indiana's plays, poems, and prose offer a needed alternative, independent approach to artistic production. -Eleanor Whitney, New York Foundation of the Arts


See Also