ACRG (Gary Indiana – Do Everything in the Dark)
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Please join Adult Contemporary Reading Group for our discussion of Gary Indiana’s ‘Do Everything in the Dark’, a dark yet compassionate comedy of art aspirations and friendships come to naught, published by Semiotext(e) in 2023.
The book is available to purchase in paperback form for $35.00 (inc. GST) from Adult Contemporary (via DM or email) and should be read in advance of the meeting.
ACRG will focus on texts concerning art and culture, including both fiction and non-fiction. The reading group is open to all and meets on the last Sunday of each month (with times and locations subject to possible variation). Suggestions for future texts, either in physical or digital publication formats, are welcome at any time.
Please join our WhatsApp community for additional discussions and content relating to ACRG: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BgoqzBNOacEBoKwLiajiBP
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First published in 2003, Gary Indiana’s turn-of-the-millennium novel traces the lives of a loosely connected group of New York artists and the dissolution of their scene.
During the summer of 2001, the narrator of ‘Do Everything in the Dark’, a gallery curator, receives intermittent dispatches from his far-flung friends—many of whom resemble well-known figures in the art and intellectual worlds—who are spread out across the globe, from Istanbul to Provincetown to Santa Fe. Seeking various reprieves from a changed New York, the long-festering, glossed-over incompatibilities of these aging bohemians blossom into exotic and unbearable relief. Beneath the contemporary excesses Indiana chronicles, we can see the outlines of the earlier New York bohemia captured by Dawn Powell.
Arguably Indiana’s most intimate, internal, and compassionate work to date, ‘Do Everything in the Dark’ is a chilling chronicle of madness and failure, success and disappointment, and the many ways love dies in a world people find increasingly unlivable.
https://www.semiotexte.com/do-everything-in-the-dark
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Gary Indiana is an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. Best known for his classic true-crime trilogy registering the debased state of American life at the millennium’s end (‘Resentment’, ‘Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story’, and ‘Depraved Indifference’), Indiana has been described by the Guardian as “one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche.”
https://www.semiotexte.com/852
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Indiana_(writer)
The book is available to purchase in paperback form for $35.00 (inc. GST) from Adult Contemporary (via DM or email) and should be read in advance of the meeting.
ACRG will focus on texts concerning art and culture, including both fiction and non-fiction. The reading group is open to all and meets on the last Sunday of each month (with times and locations subject to possible variation). Suggestions for future texts, either in physical or digital publication formats, are welcome at any time.
Please join our WhatsApp community for additional discussions and content relating to ACRG: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BgoqzBNOacEBoKwLiajiBP
📚
First published in 2003, Gary Indiana’s turn-of-the-millennium novel traces the lives of a loosely connected group of New York artists and the dissolution of their scene.
During the summer of 2001, the narrator of ‘Do Everything in the Dark’, a gallery curator, receives intermittent dispatches from his far-flung friends—many of whom resemble well-known figures in the art and intellectual worlds—who are spread out across the globe, from Istanbul to Provincetown to Santa Fe. Seeking various reprieves from a changed New York, the long-festering, glossed-over incompatibilities of these aging bohemians blossom into exotic and unbearable relief. Beneath the contemporary excesses Indiana chronicles, we can see the outlines of the earlier New York bohemia captured by Dawn Powell.
Arguably Indiana’s most intimate, internal, and compassionate work to date, ‘Do Everything in the Dark’ is a chilling chronicle of madness and failure, success and disappointment, and the many ways love dies in a world people find increasingly unlivable.
https://www.semiotexte.com/do-everything-in-the-dark
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Gary Indiana is an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. Best known for his classic true-crime trilogy registering the debased state of American life at the millennium’s end (‘Resentment’, ‘Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story’, and ‘Depraved Indifference’), Indiana has been described by the Guardian as “one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche.”
https://www.semiotexte.com/852
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Indiana_(writer)
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