Not content to be a tremendous photographer, painter, filmmaker, performance artist and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954-92) 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. This volume collects four tales--"Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral" and the title story--interspersed with ink drawings by the artist. "Sometimes it gets dark in here behind these eyes I feel like the physical equivalent of a scream. The highway at night in the headlights of this speeding car speeding is the only motion that lets the heart unravel and in the wind of the road the two story framed houses appear one after the other like some cinematic stage set..." From these opening sentences of the book (in "Into the Drift and Sway"), Wojnarowicz lets loose a salvo of explicit gay sexual reverie harshly lit by the New York cityscape.

Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

Arts & Photography

Wojnarowicz, David

Individual Artists

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The confession of serial killer David Brooks provides the starting point for Cooper's eerie tale, oddly illustrated by Blake's marionettes and puppets.

Jerk

Cooper, Dennis

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This tale of a crazy road trip pairs Pierson's seductive photographs with Lewis's free-floating reflections on the city as a magnet for high rollers and drifters of all stripes.

Real Gone: Photographs by Jack Pierson & Fiction by Jim Lewis

Jim Lewis

History & Criticism

The interrelation of art and photography is brought to new heights of complexity as Nan Goldin's photographs of boy prostitutes in Southeast Asia accompany Klaus Kertess's story about the failure of love.

Desire By Numbers: Photographs by Nan Goldin & Fiction by Klaus Kertess

Kertess,klaus

The Strange Case of T.L. (Artspace's Series)

McCormick, Carlo

Labat, Tony

Appendix A is an elaboration on A.M. Homes' novel The End of Alice, and lays bare the process of creating a character and building a fiction. The End of Alice is a tale told by an aging sex offender drawn into a summer correspondence with a college student. At first the criminal and his correspondent are merely pen pals, teasing each other, but as their epistolary exchange grows increasingly seductive, the full story of the criminal unfolds. Functioning as a compendium of evidence, Appendix A gathers an array of evidence--a photo album, paintings, assorted trinkets, teeth, a watch--remnants of the narrator's lingering and deadly infatuation with a little girl called Alice. An elaboration of the act of novel writing, Appendix A is unique exploration of the troubled boundary between truth and fiction, art and evidence.

A.M. Homes: Appendix A

Homes, A.M.

Interdisciplinary artist and writer Guillermo Gomez-Pena collaborates with Chicano visual artist Enrique Chagoya in the multilingual, performative "Latino cyberpunk" exploration.

Friendly Cannibals: Art by Enrique Chagoya & Fiction by Guillermo Gomez Pena

This book is part of Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye's film project "The Watermelon Woman" (1996) for the Whitney Biennial. The staged photos used as documentation for the film are presented here as an intimate photo album.

Fae Richards Photo Archive, The

Karen Finley is, without a doubt, the most famous and important performance artist of today, and yet in recent years her trademark persona -- that of populist provocateur -- has grown ever more complex. Always a versatile artist (she has exhibited paintings, recorded music, written plays), Finley now seems intent on moving beyond the agitprop of her best-known work in order to examine her more introverted inclinations. This stunning book, which features recent watercolors, drawings, short stories, and poems, offers ample evidence of Finley's multi-dimensional talents.

Karen Finley: Shut Up and Love Me

Karen Finley

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