I Can Give You Anything But Love Gary Indiana by Gary Indiana 9780847847228, 0847847225 instant download after payment.

"...discursive, impressionistic, punctuated by incisive reflections on history and culture, witty evocations of period and place, mystifying forays into character assassination, and frank descriptions of sex."  -  New York Times Book Review

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 the same mixture of humour and realism, philosophy and immediacy, that have long confused the definitions of genre applied to his writing. 

"A graphic and funny memoir... [Indiana] becomes the connective tissue that binds together a diaspora of subcultures: the beatnik-era experimental writing and happenings of downtown New York, the 1960s co-opted counterculture gone awry, the punk movement that followed, and the art and intellectual circles of the Reagan 80s, when the AIDS crisis was wiping out a generation of young gay men like him."   -  The Los Angeles Times

Vivid, atmospheric, revealing, and entertaining, this is an engrossing read and a serious contribution to the genres of gay and literary memoirs.