Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021 - Gary Indiana

GARY INDIANA is a novelist and critic who has chronicled the despair and hysteria of America in the late twentieth/early twenty-first century. From Horse Crazy (1989), a tale of feverish love set against the backdrop of downtown New York amid the AIDS epidemic, to Do Everything in the Dark (2003), a desolate frieze of New York's aging bohemians ( n+1 ), Indiana's novels mix horror and bathos, grim social commentary with passages of tenderest, frailest desire. In 2015, Indiana published his acclaimed anti-memoir, I Can Give You Anything But Love , following it up in 2018 with Vile Days , a collection of his art criticism for the Village Voice . Called one of the most brilliant critics writing in America today by the London Review of Books , the punk poet and pillar of lower-Manhattan society by Jamaica Kincaid, and one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche by the Guardian , Gary Indiana remains both inimitable and impossible to pin down.