{"product_id":"do-everything-in-the-dark-paperback","title":"Do Everything in the Dark - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary Indiana\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eOlivia Laing\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dark yet compassionate comedy of art aspirations and friendships come to naught.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArguably Indiana's most intimate, internal, and compassionate work to date, \u003ci\u003eDo Everything in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a chilling chronicle of madness and failure, success and disappointment, and the many ways love dies in a world people find increasingly unlivable.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Indiana is an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. Best known for his classic American true-crime trilogy registering the debased state of American life at the millennium's end (\u003ci\u003eResentment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThree-Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDepraved Indifference\u003c\/i\u003e), Indiana has been described by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e as \"one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731970134079,"sku":"9781635901863","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d419c1d2026a993e1bb0de4fd86c168b.webp?v=1765130798","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/do-everything-in-the-dark-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}