Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062354957 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gooch works briefly as a model in Milan, then returns to the city and discovers his vocation as an artist. The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City—a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passions—with cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and a host of others legendary artists.Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the late 1970s, yearning for artistic and personal freedom. Smash Cut is his bold and intimate memoir of this exhilarating time and place. Brookner falls ill with a mysterious virus that soon has a terrifying name: AIDS. And the story, and life in the city, is suddenly overshadowed by this new demon plague that will ravage a generation and transform the creative world. At its center is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, pieced together from fragments of memory and fueled by a panoply
at Columbia University and is professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey.. Brad Gooch is the author of the acclaimed biographies City Poet and Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, as well as other nonfiction and three novels. The recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, he earned his Ph.D
We were never cool, and never involved in the art and film For anyone of my generation of gay men in America, children of Stonewall who came out in the 1970s, reading a memoir by another survivor of this era is inevitably tough.Brad Gooch’s new book, recounting his stormy life with filmmaker Howard Brookner, was every bit as h. "Highly Recommended" according to Fasterpussycat. The title of this memoir by novelist Brad Gooch refers to a film editing technique, a nod not only to film-maker Howard Brookner but to the long love affair between the two men. The juxtaposition of Gooch and Brookner created a frisson, an emotional moment that would not oth. Bio of an age, the gay 70‘s. M. Brainerd "You are there" memoir of the madness and beauty of the emerging gay culture of the 70‘s. Culminating in the AIDS epidemic, personal loss and devastation. Brad Good is a literature scholar and author of biographies. Here, it's his own bio, and the style is simple, clea
That it took place between two beautiful, talented young men only makes it the more romantic and poignant.” (Edmund White, author of CITY BOY)“Far more than a memoir, Smash Cut is a bold and tender anatomy of love in an age of ambition, art, and changing light.” (Brenda Wineapple)“Smash Cut is a love story, an elegy, an intimate history written with enormous grace by a novelist and poet, who is also a master biographer. Brave and powerful--I couldn’t put it down.” (A.M. Literary memoirs abound; this one excels in beautiful honesty.” (Booklist (starred review))“Brad Gooch’s story is harrowingly honest written with love and in grief, a deftly articulated insightful history that is at once personal and deeply resonant. that would eventually take Brookner’s life-and on the complexity of a relationship that defied category.&rdqu