In one of the book’s choicest moments, Als gushes over “The - TopicsExpress



          

In one of the book’s choicest moments, Als gushes over “The Times Square Show,” the 1980 group exhibition of avant-garde artists that helped kick off Jean-Michel Basquiat’s career. The show, Als explains, “combined the refined and the dissolute: how perfect was that, since New York was a disaster area then so why couldn’t an exhibition be a disaster area, too?” The same can be said of “White Girls,” which blends the cultivated and the vulgar with interpretive sophistication and unbridled verve. Als’s prose is sterling precision, his head a disaster area, a wretched, beautiful self-exhibition you can’t wrest your eyes from. The critic has been read. The review by Rich Benjamin. nytimes/2013/11/10/books/review/white-girls-by-hilton-als.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=review
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:25:26 +0000

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