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Brad Gooch


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Biographies & Memoirs, Gay & Lesbian, Literature & Fiction


Brad Gooch is the author of Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (Little, Brown, 2009.) His previous books include City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara; as well as Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America; three novels--Scary Kisses, The Golden Age of Promiscuity, Zombie00; a collection of stories, Jailbait and Other Stories, chosen by Donald Barthelme for a Pushcart Foundation Writer’s Choice Award; a collection of poems, The Daily News; and two memoirs, Finding the Boyfriend Within and Dating the Greek Gods.

His work has been featured in numerous magazines including: The New Republic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Partisan Review, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Art Forum, H ...more

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“as well. “I’d never seen a crowd like that in a gallery,” Donald Baechler says. “I remember Edit deAk showing up for the opening. She was writing for Artforum. At that moment, she and Rene Ricard”
― Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
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“Mass had never been the ideal boss for Keith or for any of the Club 57 crew. “We were young kids who didn’t like authority,” Magnuson said, “and he was an authority figure.” Brathwaite felt that “Steve Mass treated Keith so bad. I remember one day he was going to be paid. Steve”
― Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
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“content in the paintings, though Haring had been dealing with apocalypse, nuclear disarmament, authoritarian control, and technological manipulation since his first show at Club 57 in 1980, albeit in deceptively”
― Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
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