Let It Bleed: Essays 1985 -1995

by Gary Indiana

Essays from one of America's most witty and irreverent cultural commentators. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852423323
• ISBN13: 9781852423322
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Last of the Tall Trees

I'm constantly telling people to read Gary Indiana. For one thing, no one writes as well as he does. There's a kind of mental courage in all of his work that I cannot describe, but I can say that it has everything to do with translating acute observation into transparent prose. Indiana has applied himself to our civilization's descent into barbarism, which he correctly identifies as our incredible ability to stop thinking, without losing a sense of humor or scale or succumbing to hysteria. When things look grim I like to remind myself that we still have writers as good as Indiana -- one of the last of the tall trees, as Mary McCarthy once said -- well, we still have one writer as good as Indiana. The perfect book to take with you on your trip to Branson, Missouri, Eurodisney, any courtroom in Los Angeles or anywhere, for that matter.