I Can Give You Anything But Love

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I Can Give You Anything But Love is a serious contribution to gay memoir and literary memoir genres. Will appeal primarily to gay and literary audiences, but will also appeal to readers of art / film / drama criticism / biography.


The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature.

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"In sharing his memoirs, Gary Indiana exposes the inner turmoil, his naked truths of sexuality as a gay man and the clear and still present intuitive qualities of his distinctive and intelligent voice as a writer. . . 'I Can Give You Anything But Love' is not a breezy read and that is part of the fascination to be found in his writing style and livelihood."
-EDGEMEDIANETWORK.COM

"It's impossible to agree or disagree with all of Indiana's (often fearless) critical pronouncements, but it's likewise impossible to discount his tremendous style, wit, and education. Careworn copies of this long overdue memoir will change hands for the rest of the year and beyond."
-FLAVORWIRE.COM

"This memoir is classic Gary Indiana, waspish and gorgeous and a little wary of sharing its heart when sharing its other parts might work just as well."
-openlettersmonthly.com

"A graphic and funny memoir, [I Can Give You Anything But Love] finds Indiana reinventing yet another genre - this time using his own personal narrative.He becomes the connective tissue that binds together a diaspora of subcultures: the beatnik-era experimental writing and happenings of downtown New York, the 1960s co-opted counterculture gone awry, the punk movement that followed, and the art and intellectual circles of the Reagan 80s, when the AIDS crisis was wiping out a generation of young gay men like him."
-THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

"I Can Give You Anything But Loveis discursive, impressionistic, punctuated by incisive reflections on history and culture, witty evocations of period and place, mystifying forays into character assassination, and frank descriptions of sex."
-THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

Author Bio

Gary Indiana is a writer, playwright, filmmaker, and artist. He is the author of seven novels, including Do Everything in the Dark and The Shanghai Gesture, as well as several plays, collections of poetry and non-fiction, and essays in publications from Art in America to the Village Voice. His visual art appeared in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He teaches philosophy and literature at the New School in New York City.