RIAA 2024 Honoree Cynthia Carr: How She’s Able to Go Back to Difficult Topics She Writes About скачать в хорошем качестве

RIAA 2024 Honoree Cynthia Carr: How She’s Able to Go Back to Difficult Topics She Writes About

TAG executive director Mark Harrington asks 2024 RIAA Honoree Cynthia Carr, “How do you keep the courage and energy to go back to this difficult material and bring it back to show it to us?” Cynthia Carr is the author, most recently of Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar. Her previous books are Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize; Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America; and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century. Carr chronicled the work of contemporary artists as a Village Voice staff writer in the 1980s and 1990s (under the byline C.Carr). Her work has also appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, TDR: The Drama Review and other publications. She is co-editor of a book on the work of theater artist Robbie McCauley, The Struggle Continues – to be published in 2024. She won a Guggenheim in 2007 and was a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY Graduate Center in 2016-17.