Gary Indiana (1950-2024) was a novelist, playwright, actor, art critic, and film historian, considered one of the most supple and imaginative figures in contemporary American culture. He was called "one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche" by the London Guardian. He wrote numerous plays, novels, and works of nonfiction, including Horse Crazy, Rent Boy, and Utopia's Debris. Formerly the chief art critic for the Village Voice, he also wrote for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York magazine, Artforum, and the London Review of Books.
