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Joe Brainard grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to New York when he was eighteen, where he became a vital presence in the city's art and poetry scenes of the 1960s and 1970s. He died in 1994. Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. They are the author of seven books, including The Lonely City, Crudo and The Garden Against Time. In 2018, they were awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction and in 2017, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Laing's books have been translated into twenty-one languages.
'In simple, forthright, declarative sentences, he charts the map of the human soul . . . I Remember is both uproariously funny and deeply moving.' Paul Auster 'I would make a case for I Remember as one of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies, important for its air of unimportance and for its mingling of cultural bric-a-brac with sexual frankness and self-revelation.' New Yorker 'Completely original.' Edmund White 'Buy it, for everyone you know . . . I can't think of a more original or lovely book.' Olivia Laing 'Joe Brainard discovered a memory machine.' Siri Hustvedt 'It's a great work that will last and last - in other words, it is literature.' James Shuyler 'Astonishing . . . a relentlessly specific time-capsule of a book, which bizarrely, movingly, seems to slip the confines of time.' Daily Telegraph 'A landmark work for so many memoirists.' Adelle Stripe
