Philip Cherny’s Reviews > Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz > Status Update

Craig Owens criticized the East Village scene as a “simulacrum” of bohemia. But it felt real to me. What can be seen in hindsight was that reality and hype were tumbling over each other so quickly that both reactions were possible. The whole concept of marginality was in flux here. The media spotlight pushed cultural change at such a velocity that bohemians barely had a chance to stew in their legendary juices before