Novels
- Horse Crazy (1989)
- Gone Tomorrow (1993)
- Rent Boy (1994)
- Resentment (1997)
- Depraved Indifference (2002)
- Do Everything in the Dark (2003)
- The Shanghai Gesture (2009)
Collections
- Scar Tissue and Other Stories (1987)
- White Trash Boulevard (1988)
- Tiny Fish that Only Want to Kiss (2016)
Non fiction
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Gone Tomorrow
By the author of ‘Horse Crazy’, this is an evocative first person narrative of decadence by a jaded, disfigured young actor. It is set in 1984, amid the rot and corruption of Colombia, where a serial killer is on the loose. Against this background, a film director sets to work with actors and crew.
Rent Boy
The adventures of Danny, architectural student, waiter and Rent Boy, who escorts anyone male, female or otherwise who can afford him. Then his liaison with another Rent Boy involves him in a grisly organ selling ring. This black comedy exposes the fundamental immorality of modern society.
Depraved Indifference
Gary Indiana, a ‘huge satirical talent’ New York Times, brings us a darkly comic novel fueled by the virtuoso con artist Evangeline Slote and her extravagant life of chicanery and petty crime. She thrives on seduction, manipulation, and the humiliation of everybody in her orbit. And she has a genius for generating chaos and panic among her real and imaginary enemies. Until her conviction on slavery charges brought against her by several ungrateful Mexican housemaids, Evangeline, a dead ringer for Elizabeth Taylor, lives in perpetual motion. She and her husband, Warren, a self made real estate mogul at the end of a long alcoholic decline, breezily shift from Las Vegas to Hawaii to Nassau, torching their homes for insurance money, dabbling in myriad forms of financial fraud, and constantly altering their identities to evade the law. When Warren dies, Evangeline is desperate to jump start yet another new life, bankrolled by Warren’s far flung and hard to locate assets, while keeping his death secret from the world at large, but particularly from his ‘former children,’ her stepchildren and the beneficiaries of his will. Fortunately, she has an eager accomplice in Devin, her fanatically devoted and easily manipulated son. Surrounded by a cohort of burnouts, hapless suckers, and fellow grifters, Evangeline cooks up the ultimate con. To complete the intricate scheme, she will stop at nothing, including murder. Depraved Indifference is a dissection of the mind of a charismatic sociopath and a satire of the society that appeases and abets her. With razor fine insight, Gary Indiana, ‘one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche,’ The Guardian wields his scathing, insightful prose with authority and to devastating effect.
Do Everything in the Dark
Gary Indiana’s newest autopsy of America s walking dead examines the tragicomic fate of la vie boheme when its cherished delusions and brightest hopes succumb to the harsh realities of the aging process. Do Everything in the Dark continues Indiana s exploration of social anomie and disconnection with the scabrous wit the author is famous for. But it is also a chilling chronicle of madness and failure, disappointments and ruined ambitions, disastrous life choices and the many ways love dies in a world people find increasingly impossible to live in. The novel follows several couples and solitary wanderers through the summer of 2001, as their internationally scattered vacations throw long festering, glossed over incompatibilities and resentments into exotic and unbearable relief. Indiana shows his large and terrifyingly credible cast of America s cultural elite exhibiting their worst behavior, while sympathizing with their underlying fears and frailties and thwarted good intentions. Do Everything in the Dark is Indiana s darkest and funniest novel, but also his deepest exploration of our least manageable, most uncomfortable emotions.
The Shanghai Gesture
‘Indiana has gloriously revived an obscure Hollywood film of the same name, infused it with eroticism and intrigue and added Dr. Fu Manchu! The result is a lustrous, laugh out loud world of bawd and mayhem; an erudite, charmingly operatic opium den of decadence that seesaws between high brow and low camp and reads as though Cormac McCarthy had rewritten Austin Powers.’ Arthur Nersesian ‘Ambitious…
gonzo social satire.’ Publishers Weekly A fearless and valuable writer. The Washington Post ‘ Gary Indiana is the primary reporter of the underground, the dissociation of cultures, the new behaviors; there is a sense that if you want to understand what has happened in America, you would have to read Gary Indiana. And this newest book is a leap forward.’ Michael Silverblatt ‘Like The Wizard of Oz meets Naked Lunch…
this strange, filthy, uproarious little novel is a riveting read from start to finish.’ Boldtype In the internationally acclaimed author’s first novel since Do Everything in the Dark, Gary Indiana applies his prickly wit, nihilistic vision, and utterly original voice to this side splitting spin on Fu Manchu. A mysterious bout of narcolepsy has overtaken the seaside hamlet of Land s End, a funk endemic to the region since the wreckage a century earlier of the ship the Ardent Somdomite. Inspector Weymouth Smith and unconvinced cohort Dr. Obregon Petrie attempt to thwart Fu Manchu s latest ploy for world domination while confronting South American Piyas, matching wits with a club footed ex Stasi, as well as battling the latest technological crazes and their own drug dependencies. The Shanghai Gesture is not a genre farce, but a compelling tale that merges the author s trademark eye for social satire with the beautifully poetic sensibilities of his previous novels. Among Those That Know, a cabal our story will elucidate in the fullness of time, rumors fluttered that Dr. Obregon Petrie defied the laws of gravity when it suited his caprice. Gary Indiana is the author of several previous novels: Horse Crazy, Gone Tomorrow, Rent Boy, Resentment, Depraved Indifference, and Do Everything in the Dark, as well as nonfiction works: Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story, The 120 Days of Salo, Let It Bleed: Essays 1985 1995, Schwarzenegger Syndrome, and Utopia s Debris.
White Trash Boulevard
new narrative fiction, the author’s the star
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