Reviewing for Bookforum, Luc Sante said, Cynthia Carr's Lammy winner Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
[Kindle] is "unimprovable as a biography–--thorough, measured, beautifully written, loving but not uncritical -- as a concentrated history of his times, and as a memorial, presenting him in his entirety, twenty years dead but his ardor uncooled."
Newly out in paperback, the bio of the rebel artist appeared last year on Dwight Garner's top ten books of 2012 in the New York Times and on Thebes' queer lit poll cited by Jonathan Weinberg and by Lisa Cohen. She wrote, "Robert Duncan and David Wojnarowicz made visionary, complex, fiercely queer, wildly disciplined, inspiring work. Lisa Jarnot’s Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus
and Cynthia Carr’s Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
—each book many years in the making—are equal to the genius of these artists’ lives and creations, and to the task of weighing the often conflicting evidence they left behind."
This holiday season please remember the Wojnarowicz graphic novel 7 Miles A Second
powerfully rendered by James Romberger and gorgeously colored by Marguerite Van Cook. It hit #5 on the NYT graphic books bestseller list.
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