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Cruising the Movies - A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV by Boyd McDonald; William E. Jones
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser.
A writer casts an acerbic, queer eye on the greats and the not-so-greats of Hollywood's Golden Age. Ronnie Reagan's bizarre legs are sufficient reason to watch John Loves Mary (1949), a picture so ordinaire it needs this bizarre touch. When the faces in this historic still from the Museum of Modern Art ...Show more
Heroines by Kate Zambreno
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order--pretending an objectivity where there is nothing obj ...Show more
Social Practices by Chris Kraus
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Category: Art | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser.
Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us witnesses to each other's lives. My escape is his prison. We meet in a bar and smoke Marlboros. -- from Social PracticesMixing biography, autobiography, fictio ...Show more
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents Ser.
A poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Bj rk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Li ...Show more
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