Not content to be a tremendous photographer, painter, film-maker, performance artist and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was also the author of three classic books: "Close to the Knives," "The Waterfront Journals "and "Memories That Smell Like Gasoline," now back in print from Artspace. Th...
this abrasive, masterfully written, self-eviscerating, entirely unsentimental memoir is one that is practically boiling over with anger and lust and menace. it was an influential book in its own place and time... much like wojnarowicz's equally visceral yet haunting art. the free-flowing, stream ...
After reading the condescending, smug introduction by Tony Kushner that made reading this book sound like it was going to be like doing homework, I was surprised to find it wasn't all that bad. Very Burroughs-like. It seems like all the characters that share their various stories here aren't goin...
I started out in New York City … figured they wouldn’t be able to follow me if I rode the bus … I didn’t stay in one city too long and I’d decide what direction I was gonna go in only after I was at the bus station but they would always find out where I was going and follow me. I’d get on the bus...
Tom was there, a show was about to take place onstage and I’m sitting near Tom and he is acting a bit strange. I’m not sure about the situation but it feels public in the way that has always made me tense. We are in a relationship, but some emotional part of the relationship has never fully conne...
& R.E. (ACT-VP) The Seven Deadly Sins Fact Sheet Edward Koch. Every day, new yorkers who are AIDS workers see the human toll that their mayor’s refusal to deal with a health crisis extorts from the sick. So they have no reason to believe the mayor has any sympathy for people with AIDS. Koch h...