{"product_id":"fire-season-selected-essays-1984-2021-9781644211625","title":"Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting edge film, art, and literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether he's describing Tracy Emin or Warhol, the films of Barbet Schroeder (\"Schroeder is well aware that life is not a narrative; that we impose form on the movements of chance, contingency, and impulse....\") or the installations of Barbara Kruger (\"Kruger \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecompresses the telling exchanges of lived experience that betray how skewed our lives \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eare...\"), Indiana is never just describing. His writing is refreshing, erudite, joyful. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIndiana champions shining examples of literary and artistic merit regardless of whether the individual artist or writer is famous; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment; is unafraid to deliver the coup de grâce when someone needs to say the emperor has no clothes; speaks in the same breath--in the same discerning, insolent, eloquent way--about high art and pop culture. Few writers could get away with saying the things Gary Indiana does. And when the writing is this good, it's also political, plus it's a riot of fun on the page. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is Gary Indiana on Euro Disney resort park in Marne-la-Valée outside of Paris: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Berger compares the art of Disney to that of Francis Bacon. He says that the same essential horror lurks in both, and that it springs from the viewer's imagining: There is nothing else. Even as a child, I understood how unbearable it would be to be trapped inside a cartoon frame.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSince 1987, Indiana has published novels, nonfiction, plays, short stories -- all with an unmistakable, sardonic voice embedded in the text ...\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644211625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gary Indiana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41614495383733,"sku":"9781644211625","price":20.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c1605229-9965-43e2-990e-710ec6a6a2cd.jpg?v=1644901650","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fire-season-selected-essays-1984-2021-9781644211625","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}