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209

David has a problem
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz, unpublished journal entry, Fales, Series 1, Box 2, Folder 30, ‘1991 or thereabouts’.
209

I am glass, clear empty glass
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz,
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
, pp. 60–61.
211

It was very much alive
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz, unpublished audio journal, Fales, Series 8A, ‘1988 Journal, Nov/Dec’.
213

To place an object or writing
 . . .’: ibid., p. 156.
214

To make the private into
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz,
Close to the Knives
, p. 121.
215

once this body drops
. . .’: David Wojnarowicz,
Brush Fires in the Social Landscape
(Aperture, 2015), p. 160.

CHAPTER 7: RENDER GHOSTS

226

almost sleepy
 . . .’: Jennifer Egan,
A Visit from the Goon Squad
(Corsair, 2011), p. 317.
228

Likewise, at a screen
 . . .’: Sherry Turkle,
Alone Together:Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
(Basic Books, 2011), p. 188.
231

If I’m in a certain mood
 . . .’:
We Live in Public
, dir. Ondi Timoner (2009).
232

I think that I love
 . . .’: ibid.
234

Andy Warhol was wrong
 . . .’: Richard Siklos,‘Pseudo’s Josh Harris: The Warhol of Webcasting’,
Businessweek
, 26 January 2000.
235

People gathered night after
 . . .’: Jonathan Ames, ‘Jonathan Ames, RIP’,
New York Press
, 18 January 2000.
236

We are very much alone
 . . .’: Bruce Benderson,
Sex and Isolation
, p. 7.
237

There’s all these people
 . . .’:
We Live in Public
, dir. Ondi Timoner (2009).
241

it didn’t matter
 . . .’: Ondi Timoner, MoMA screening of
We Live in Public
, 5 April 2009.
242

My only friend was the tube
 . . .’:
First Person: Harvesting Me
, dir. Errol Morris (2001).
243

I feel like I’m in uh
 . . .’: Mario Montez,
Screen Test #2
, dir. Andy Warhol (1965).
244

The mass medium of television
 . . .’: Benjamin Secher,‘Andy Warhol TV: maddening but intoxicating’,
Telegraph
, 30 September 2008.
244

If you were the star
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
, pp. 146–7.
246

Not really. I make friends
 . . .’:
Blade Runner
, dir. Ridley Scott (1982).
248

But now that heightened
 . . .’: Susan Sontag,
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
, p. 178.
249

All the animals come out
 . . .’:
Taxi Driver
, dir. Martin Scorsese (1976).
251

What really twisted my brain
 . . .’: David Wojnarowicz,
7 Miles A Second
, p. 15.
251

The closing of the center city
 . . .’: Bruce Benderson,
Sex and Isolation
, p. 7.
252

The tortoise lays on its back
 . . .’:
Blade Runner
, dir. Ridley Scott (1982).

CHAPTER 8: STRANGE FRUIT

255

the daily affirmation
 . . .’: Sarah Schulman,
Gentrification of the Mind
, p. 27.
256
Larry Krone,
Then and Now (Cape Collaboration).
258

It was sort of a way
 . . .’: Zoe Leonard,
Secession
(Wiener Secession, 1997), p. 17.
259

And it wasn’t the pneumonia
 . . .’: Billie Holiday, with William Dufty,
Lady Sings the Blues
(Harlem Moon, 2006 [1956]), p. 77.
260

to spell out all the things
 . . .’: ibid., p. 94.
261
Zoe Leonard, ACT UP Oral History Project, Interview No. 106, 13 January 2010.
261

From a distance
 . . .’: Jenni Sorkin, ‘Finding the Right Darkness’,
Frieze
, Issue 113, March 2008.
263

String can be looked upon
 . . .’: D. W. Winnicott,
Playing and Reality
(Routledge, 1971), p. 19.
263

1) going to pieces
 . . .’: D. W. Winnicott,
Babies and Their Mothers
(Free Association Books, 1988), p. 99.
264

into a
denial . . .’: D. W. Winnicott,
Playing and Reality
, p. 19.
264

Tantrums over tangles
 . . .’: Henry Darger,
Journal 27 Feb 1965 – 1 Jan 1972
, Folder 33:3, Box 33, HDP.
268

One of those kids
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
The Andy Warhol Diaries
, p. 462.
268

But actually if he’s
 . . .’: ibid., p. 584.
268

I mean, how long can you suck dick
 . . .’: ibid., p. 641.
270

Mr. Warhol’s death
 . . .’: Michael Wines, ‘Jean Michel Basquiat: Hazards of Sudden Success and Fame’,
New York Times
, 27 August 1988.
273

Dear Buba and Uncle Andy
 . . .’:Andy Warhol,TC–27,Andy Warhol Museum.
273

HI SWEETHEART
 . . .’: Andy Warhol, TC522, Andy Warhol Museum.
274

I think he didn’t
 . . .’: Donald Warhola, interview with author, 12 November 2013.
276

She does a beautiful job
 . . .’: Andy Warhol,
The Andy Warhol Diaries
, p. 421.
277

Okay, let’s get it over
 . . .’: ibid., p. 689.
278

He looks a bit like a woman
 . . .’: Phoebe Hoban, ‘Portraits: Alice Neel’s Legacy of Realism’,
New York Times
, 22 April 2010.
279

was a way to think about David
 . . .’: Zoe Leonard,
Secession
, p. 18.

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Als, Hilton,
White Girls
(McSweeney’s, 2013)

— with Jonathan Lethem and Jeanette Winterson,
Andy Warhol at Christie’s
(Christie’s, 2012)

Angell, Callie,
Andy Warhol Screen Tests: the Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonn
é
, Volume 1
(Abrams, in association with Whitney Museum of American Art, 2006)

Arbus, Diane,
Diane Arbus
(Aperture, 2011)

Arcade, Penny,
Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews
(Semiotex(e)/MIT Press, 2009)

Aviv, Rachel, ‘Netherland’,
The New Yorker,
10 December 2012

Barthes, Roland,
Roland Barthes
(University of California Press, 1977)


Mourning Diary
(Hill & Wang, 2010)

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The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea
(The New Press, 2002)

Benderson, Bruce,
Sex and Isolation
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)

Benjamin,Walter,
One-way Street and Other Writings
(Penguin, 2009)

Berman, Marshall,
On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
(Verso, 2006)

Bisenbach, Klaus, ed.,
Henry Darger
(Prestel, 2009)


Henry Darger: Disasters of War
(KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2003)

Bockris,Victor,
Warhol:The Biography
(Da Capo Press, 2003 [1989])

Bonesteel, Michael,
Henry Darger:Art and Selected Writings
(Rizzoli, 2000)

Bowlby, John,
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(Basic Books, 1973)

Boym, Svetlana,
The Future of Nostalgia
(Basic Books, 2001)

Brown, Bill, ‘Things’,
Critical Inquiry
, Vol. 28, No. 1

Beaumont, Matthew and Gregory Dart, eds.,
Restless Cities
(Verso, 2010)

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Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
(W. W. Norton, 2008)

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