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Gary Indiana


Born
in Derry, New Hampshire, The United States
July 16, 1950

Died
October 23, 2024


Gary Hoisington, known as Gary Indiana, was an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his classic American true-crime trilogy, Resentment, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story, and Depraved Indifference, chronicling the less permanent state of "depraved indifference" that characterized American life at the millennium's end. In the introduction to the recently re-published edition of Three Month Fever, critic Christopher Glazek has coined the phrase 'deflationary realism' to describe Indiana's writing, in contrast to the magical realism or hysterical realism of other contemporary writing. ...more

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Rent Boy
3.57 avg rating — 2,442 ratings — published 1993
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Horse Crazy
4.07 avg rating — 834 ratings — published 1989 — 16 editions
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Three Month Fever: The Andr...
4.07 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1999
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I Can Give You Anything But...
3.90 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions
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Do Everything in the Dark
3.96 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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Resentment: A Comedy
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Gone Tomorrow (High Risk Bo...
3.71 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1993 — 19 editions
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Depraved Indifference
4.07 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1969 — 10 editions
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Fire Season: Selected Essay...
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Andy Warhol and the Can tha...
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“America ... loves the successful sociopath and thinks it’s normal to dream of becoming like him.”
― Gary Indiana
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“Affection is the mortal illness of lonely people.”
― Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy
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“Now nothing is happening and nothing will ever happen again. Money has taken away everything.”
― Gary Indiana
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