Synopses & Reviews
Originally published in 1997,
Resentment was the first in Gary Indiana's now-classic trilogy (followed in 1999 by
Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story and in 2003 by
Depraved Indifference) chronicling the more-or-less permanent state of "depraved indifference" that characterized American life at the millennium's end.
In Resentment, Seth, a New York--based writer arrives in Los Angeles (where he has history and friends) in mid-August, 1994, to observe what will become the marathon parricide trial of the wealthy, athletic, and troubled Martinez brothers, broadcast live every day on Court TV. Still reeling from the end of his obsessive courtship of a young SoHo artist/waiter, Seth moves between a room at the Chateau Marmont and a Mount Washington shack owned by his old cab-driving, ex-Marxist friend, Jack, while he writes a profile of Teddy Wade -- one of the era's hottest young actors, who has "dared" to star as a gay character in a new Hollywood film. Studded throughout with scathing satirical portraits of media figures, other writers, and the Martinez trial teams, Resentment captures an era that seems, two decades later, at once grotesque, familiar, and a precursor to our own.
Review
Gary Indiana's writing remains filled with so much venomous aggression that it is almost easier to ignore the flood of compassion bubbling up beneath it. … He is, I think, one of the most woefully underappreciated writers of the last 30 years. Semiotext(e)
Review
One reads Mr. Indiana's new work with astonishment at his talent, and astonishment at the absurdist bleakness of his vision. M.H. Miller - New York Observer
Review
Gary Indiana is a fearless and valuable writer, willing to recount anything human beings are capable of with a kind of angry compassion and a spritz of disgust. Richard Bernstein - New York Times
Synopsis
In a novel capturing an era that seems at once familiar and grotesque, a New York writer lands in Los Angeles in 1994.
Originally published in 1997, Resentment was the first in Gary Indiana's now-classic trilogy (followed in 1999 by Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story and in 2003 by Depraved Indifference) chronicling the more-or-less permanent state of "depraved indifference" that characterized American life at the millennium's end.
In Resentment, Seth, a New York--based writer arrives in Los Angeles (where he has history and friends) in mid-August, 1994, to observe what will become the marathon parricide trial of the wealthy, athletic, and troubled Martinez brothers, broadcast live every day on Court TV. Still reeling from the end of his obsessive courtship of a young SoHo artist/waiter, Seth moves between a room at the Chateau Marmont and a Mount Washington shack owned by his old cab-driving, ex-Marxist friend, Jack, while he writes a profile of Teddy Wade -- one of the era's hottest young actors, who has "dared" to star as a gay character in a new Hollywood film. Studded throughout with scathing satirical portraits of media figures, other writers, and the Martinez trial teams, Resentment captures an era that seems, two decades later, at once grotesque, familiar, and a precursor to our own.
About the Author
Described by Christian Lorenzen of the London Review of Books as one of the most brilliant critics working in America today, Gary Indiana is the author of seven novels, including Three Month Fever, Depraved Indifference, Rent Boy, and Horse Crazy. His nonfiction books include Let It Bleed, The Schwarzenegger Syndrome, and Utopia's Debris. I Can Give You Anything But Love, his first (and only) memoir, was published recently by Rizzoli. New editions of Depraved Indifference and Three Month Fever, volumes two and three of his crime trilogy, are forthcoming from Semiotext(e).Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Summer of Hate as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs, all published by Semiotext(e). A Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.