Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

By David Wojnarowicz

"Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable." --New York Magazine

David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space--all under the specter of AIDS.

Here are David Wojnarowicz's most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sections--"Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral," and "Memories that Smell like Gasoline"--are made of images and indictments of a precocious adolescence, and his later adventures in the streets of New York. Combining text and image, tenderness and rage, Wojnarowicz's Memories that Smell like Gasoline is a disavowal of the world that wanted him dead, and a radical insistence on life.

The new and revised edition features a foreword by Ocean Vuong and a note from the editor, Amy Scholder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643622714
• ISBN13: 9781643622712
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.7"