Gary Indiana
1950–2024
Introduction
Gary Hoisington (July 16, 1950 – October 23, 2024), known as Gary Indiana, was an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his classic American true-crime trilogy, Resentment, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story, and Depraved Indifference, chronicling the less permanent state of "depraved indifference" that characterized American life at the millennium's end. In the introduction to the recently re-published edition of Three Month Fever, critic Christopher Glazek has coined the phrase 'deflationary realism' to describe Indiana's writing, in contrast to the magical realism or hysterical realism of other contemporary writing.
Wikidata identifier
Q5525290
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Introduction
Writer was known for his essays, fiction, plays, journalism and art criticism. He also produced photography and videos, and was a well-known figure in downtown Manhattan, particularly in the late 1970s and 1980s, when he wrote for the Village Voice.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Writer, actor, photographer, playwright, poet
ULAN identifier
500664962
Names
Gary Indiana, Gary Hoisington
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