Utopia's Debris Selected Essays

"One of America's leading critics, Gary Indiana has written essays on nearly every aspect of American culture. Utopia's Debris comprises selections of his very best work from the past fifteen years, revealing him to be an enormously acute, frequently scabrous, and always brilliant observer of the best and worst America has to offer."--BOOK JACKET.

Gary Indiana-novelist, playwright, actor, art critic, film historian-is one of the most supple and imaginative figures in contemporary American culture. He is the author of numerous plays, novels, and works of nonfiction including Horse Crazy, Rent Boy, and Resentment. Formerly the chief art critic for the Village Voice, Indiana has also written for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York, Artforum, and the London Review of Books. He lives in New York City.

By Way of a Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Desertshore
Barbara Kruger: The War at Home	p. 3
Kindergarten Governor	p. 9
Murdering the Dead	p. 17
Pretty Vacant	p. 23
Gavin Lambert (1924-2005): The Goodbye Person	p. 27
The Infernal Evidence
Even Cowboys Get the Blues	p. 39
The Madness of the Day	p. 45
Testosterone Express	p. 51
Homicide Can Be Such a Drag	p. 55
About Mary Woronov	p. 61
Daniel Schmid's La Paloma	p. 65
William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997)	p. 69
That Awful Mess at the Governor's Mansion	p. 77
Surrealisms and the Power of Emotion
Of Caroline Blackwood	p. 89
Wurlitzer's Wiles	p. 99
Bulle Ogier, Phenomenon Without a Pause	p. 111
Cunning, Exile, Contingency	p. 121
Germany Inside Him: Rainer Fassbinder and the Spell of Dystopia	p. 131
Vienna III, Kundmanngasse 19	p. 137
Major Motifs	p. 165
Curzio Malaparte	p. 171
Conjuror of St. Germain	p. 183
Emmanuel Carrere's Counterfeiters	p. 191
And the Fog Comes Rolling in
The Excremental Republic	p. 207
Uberdolls	p. 215
The Gearworks of Doom	p. 219
Don't Buy Us With Sorry After Burning Down the Barn	p. 227
Sublime Pariah: Celine's Voyages into the Whirlwind	p. 233
Amnesia and Its Double	p. 249
Blame It On Brio	p. 253
No Such Thing as Paranoia	p. 259
Utopia's Debris
Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate	p. 277
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)	p. 285
Robert Bresson: Hidden in Plain Sight	p. 291
Simenon l'Incroyable	p. 295
Weill, Brecht, Mahagonny	p. 299
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