I Can Give You Anything But Love
The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of “the most brilliant critics writing in America today,” Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments.
With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary Indiana has composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the post–summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide downtown personality. Interspersed throughout his vivid recollections are present-day chapters set against the louche culture and raw sexuality of Cuba, where he has lived and worked occasionally for the past fifteen years. Connoisseurs will recognize in this—his most personal book yet—the same mixture of humor and realism, philosophy and immediacy, that have long confused the definitions of genre applied to his writing. Vivid, atmospheric, revealing, and entertaining, this is an engrossing read and a serious contribution to the genres of gay and literary memoir.
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A Fascinating Memoir As I read this memoir which is certainly something else, as we are prone to say down here, I kept thinking that it is the sort of book that that one-of-a-kind book store in San Francisco, City Lights, would display in its window as a book not to miss; but it would probably not be stocked in most stores in the remaining big bookstore chain and would have to be special-ordered. Gary Indianaâs I CAN GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE is indeed one of a kind. He certainly writes honestlyâperhaps too…
Gary Indiana is the greatest American writer, and I love him! I have just read “I Can Give You Anything But Love” by the great Gary Indiana. This book is a masterpiece – it is interesting, well-written, and relevant. The passages that Mr. Indiana wrote about Cuba were sublime. He is a superior writer.I have read many books written by Mr. Indiana. I am upset because he is a woefully underrated and under-publicized writer. It is a crime that this is so. America does not value its great writers – only its mediocre ones. It is a…
A sad little piece of work