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Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

AUTHOR Vuong, Ocean; Wojnarowicz, David
PUBLISHER Nightboat Books (07/22/2025)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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"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.

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ISBN-13: 9781643622712
ISBN-10: 1643622714
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 96
Carton Quantity: 64
Product Dimensions: 5.50 x 0.60 x 7.70 inches
Weight: 0.40 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product, Illustrated
Country of Origin: LT
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BISAC Categories
Literary Collections | LGBTQ+
Literary Collections | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica
Literary Collections | LGBTQ+
Dewey Decimal: B
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"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.

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