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Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s, by Brad Gooch
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“The fact that a writer of Brad Gooch’s significance has been witness to remarkable events and people, and has written about them, is a genuine gift to the world. Smash Cut is a beautiful and important book.†(Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize winning author)“A gorgeous memoir...a potent mix of love, art, and death.†(Vanity Fair)“That Gooch is a splendid writer will not be left in doubt for anyone who delves into his new memoir. . . . Literary memoirs abound; this one excels in beautiful honesty.†(Booklist (starred review))“Brad Gooch’s story is harrowingly honest written with love and in grief, a deftly articulated insightful history that is at once personal and deeply resonant. Brave and powerful--I couldn’t put it down.†(A.M. Homes, author of May We Be Forgiven)“So glamorous, so sexy, and so devastating, this love story will be the gay picture of the 70s/80s. That it took place between two beautiful, talented young men only makes it the more romantic and poignant.†(Edmund White, author of CITY BOY)“Far more than a memoir, Smash Cut is a bold and tender anatomy of love in an age of ambition, art, and changing light.†(Brenda Wineapple)“Smash Cut is a love story, an elegy, an intimate history written with enormous grace by a novelist and poet, who is also a master biographer. †(Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter)“Gooch brings the city to life with all its promise and possibility. A personal, intimate look at our country’s creative history that will also keep you up all night and make you see the city in a new way.†(Susan Cheever)“Engrossing, intimate. . . . This candid memoir lovingly evokes a life, and a world, lost.†(Kirkus Reviews)“Like everyone who ever met Brad, I fell instantly in love. If YOU’VE not met him, reading this book will be the next best thing.†(Andrew Tobias, author of The Best Little Boy in the World)
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Brad Gooch, the author of the acclaimed City Poet, returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City.Brad Gooch arrived in New York in the 1970s, eager for artistic and personal freedom. Smash Cut is his bold and intimate memoir of this exhilarating time and place, complete with its cast of wild bohemians, celebrities, and budding artists, such as Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and Madonna. At its center is his love affair with film director Howard Brookner, recreated from fragments of memory and a crosshatch of conflicting emotions, from innocent romance to bleak despair.Gooch and Brookner’s intense relationship is challenged by sex and drugs, and by a culture of extreme experimentation. As both men try to reconcile love and fidelity with the irresistible desire to sample the legendary abandon of the era, they live together and apart. Gooch works briefly as a model in Milan, then returns to the city and discovers his vocation as a writer.Brookner falls ill with a mysterious virus that soon has a terrifying name: AIDS. And the story, and life in the city, is suddenly overshadowed by this new plague that will ravage a generation and transform the creative world. Gooch charts the progress of Brookner through his illness, and writes unforgettably about endings: of a great talent, a passionate love affair, and an incandescent era.Beautifully written, full of rich detail and poignant reflection, recalling a city and particular period and group of friends with affection and clarity, Smash Cut is an extraordinary memoir and an exquisite unflinching account of an epoch.
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Gebundene Ausgabe: 256 Seiten
Verlag: Harper (14. April 2015)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0062354957
ISBN-13: 978-0062354952
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15,2 x 2,3 x 22,9 cm
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Nr. 206.673 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)
For anyone of my generation of gay men in America, children of Stonewall who came out in the 1970s, reading a memoir by another survivor of this era is inevitably tough.Brad Gooch’s new book, recounting his stormy life with filmmaker Howard Brookner, was every bit as harrowing as I expected it to be. Reading gay memoirs of the 1970s and 80s is hard, because we all lived through the same nightmare wherever we were.What made this eerier for me is that I was at Exeter with Howard Brookner, the semi-subject of this tragic romance. He was a year older, and we didn't know each other, but I remember him clearly. He was one of the long-haired "bad boys" who smoked and didn't socialize with preppy boys such as I, who spent our time sublimating our sexuality into loud clothes and high grades.So Gooch's memoir, set between 1978 and 1989, is sort of a parallel life to the one my husband and I lived eighteen miles to the west in suburban New Jersey. We were never cool, and never involved in the art and film scene as Brad and Howard were; but we knew people who were. We were on the edge of that world of beautiful men and hot clubs and sexual freedom. From our leafy suburban hilltop we could see the lights of Manhattan.Reading this wonderful, heart-breaking book is like watching a car crash in slow motion. I wanted the ending to be different, but I knew it wouldn't be. We saw it happen too many times in our own world. AIDS paid no attention to issues of bridge and tunnel.What makes “Smash Cut†so different from Paul Monette’s “Borrowed Time: an AIDS Memoir,†or Larry Kramer’s fictionalized memoir “The Normal Heart†(a play and film), is that it is infused with love, not anger. Possibly the difference is that Gooch survived, learning that he was HIV negative at precisely the same time I did in 1989, and thus he can bring a spiritual generosity to his story, distanced now by over two decades from the immediacy of the sadness and suffering of Howard’s end.The book is filled with wry honesty and genuine humor. As a couple, Howard Brookner and Brad Gooch were a disaster (or, as our daughter would say, a hot mess); and yet the love between them comes through as strong and real as any I’ve ever experienced on the pages of a book. Aided and abetted by Brad’s brief career as a model and Howard’s ongoing work on William Burroughs’ biopic, the young men are caught up in an endless series of addictions and compulsive infidelities. The siren song of the 1970s was a very strong one. It was not conducive to neat pairings or cautious behavior. The conscious desire on the part of both Brad and Howard to turn their backs on the bland suburban world of their parents simply added fuel to the fire.And yet, there is a kind of kids-in-a-candy-store innocence about their headlong plunge into the bars and baths of Manhattan. Oddly, I thought of Dorothy and her companions arriving in the Emerald City in the film version of The Wizard of Oz, as they indulge in all the urban wonders of that magical place before facing the terror of the wizard himself. The lure of New York and its very specific brand of gay liberation was, perhaps, exactly why my boyfriend and I decided to move to the suburbs back in 1980.Gooch is now 63, married to another man and the father of a child. He teaches at a university in New Jersey but still lives in Manhattan. That his life should end up so oddly parallel to my own simply underscores the dark whimsy of the world gay men all over the USA lived through together in the 1980s and infuses this big-hearted biographical narrative with a bittersweet poignancy that makes it particularly powerful.
Brad Gooch has written a prose poem in tribute to his love for Howard Brookner. He relives the early fears and ecstasies of young love, the secrets and intimacies they conceal from one another, and the ambition that grows out of their testosterone-fueled adventures. Both men grow into artists on the threshold of fulfillment. But Brookner is felled by the cruel virus that hid from all of us as the party escalated. Gooch conveys deep empathy for his lover and the prime that he was denied. He finds words to portray the suffering and strength that Brookner and he ultimately achieved. He looks frankly at the beauty and profanity of their relationship, the leveling of class and position that HIV created, and the healing forgiveness each man gave to the other and himself. This book is equal to Brad Gooch's soaring portrait of Frank O'Hara, who would have understood and admired them deeply.
Only being familiar with the work of Brad Gooch via the gay bookstores I once owned, it was interesting meeting Howard Brookner through Gooch's eyes. Having my own relationship ended by AIDS I found myself equally invested in the details of Brad and Howard's interaction. Like another reviewer noted, even though the conclusion was obvious, I found myself in tears most of the last chapter, not just for Howard - and Brad - but for all those I knew along the way deprived of the senior days I now experience. Much has been written on AIDS but Gooch's fine visual writing offers a fresh view and a realization, as if more was needed, of the lost talent of an entire generation.
Brad Gooch, the author of exemplary biographies of the poet Frank O'Hara and the Southern writer Flannery O'Connor, has now created a haunting, raw, yet elegant portrait of his life in New York City in those seemingly mythical days of the 1970s and early 1980s, with all of its promise and freedom and energy. Gooch's lover, film director Howard Brookner, was charismatic, a man described to me by someone as a Pied Piper of pleasure--aesthetic, sensual, intellectual. A heady life existed for these two men, amidst the steam of creativity and ambition that rose from those times. Eventually, AIDS enters their lives, and one of many triumphs of this book is that the timeline of events is presented boldly and coolly: This book never becomes maudlin, never pulls strings that might manipulate your emotions--Gooch presents, with very little defense, his life and its effects, and you will be aware of the tenuous connections in which we all live, and how only memory, artfully presented, can preserve those we loved. "Smash Cut," which is written with the smooth precision of film spinning through the hands of a skillful editor, acts as a bouquet of roses placed on a grave in which the years have been preserved, and as you close the pages of the book and walk with the memory of it in your head, the petals fly about you for days.
He is swooningly delightful as he leads us through the horrors and the sweet moments of the hiv/aids hell of the gay/queer community at the outset and forward. I'm a Brad Gooch fiction fan who lived through those days intensely, loosing 100's of friends ad associates. He does us all justice revealing his and his lovers venture through the death spiral of NYC AIDS just as the lgbt community was starting to find life loveable outside the closet. Those of us who survived, owe it to ourselves and the world to give witness these grueling days.
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