{"product_id":"last-seen-entering-the-biltmore-isbn-9781584350903","title":"Last Seen Entering the Biltmore","description":"\u003cb\u003ePreviously unpublished plays and writings by one of today's foremost satirical authors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing his celebrated first novel, \u003ci\u003eHorse Crazy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents highlights of that repertoire, including \u003ci\u003eAlligator Girls Go to College\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Roman Polanski Story\u003c\/i\u003e, and Indiana's script for Michel Auder's videofilm \u003ci\u003eA Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.—\u003cb\u003eEleanor Whitney\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Foundation of the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e... this collection's thirty-five-year coverage is a strong starting point for anyone unfamiliar with the author's work.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Seen\u003c\/i\u003e 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.... \u003ci\u003eLast Seen\u003c\/i\u003e is, ultimately, an important clarion call by a charismatic and candid voice.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eReview of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e—Gary Indiana is a novelist, playwright, critic, essayist, filmmaker, and artist. Hailed by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e as “one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche,” and by the \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e as \"one of the most woefully underappreciated writers of the last 30 years,\" he published a memoir, \u003ci\u003eI Can Give You Anything But Love\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2015. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThree Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eResentment: A Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by Semiotex(e)).","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303101092069,"sku":"NP9781584350903","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584350903.jpg?v=1767731176","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/last-seen-entering-the-biltmore-isbn-9781584350903","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}