Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

Not content to be a tremendous photographer, painter, filmmaker, performance artist and activist David Wojnarowicz (1954-92) was also the author of three classic books: Close to the Knives, The Waterfront Journals and Memories That Smell Like Gasoline, now back in print from Artspace. This volume collects four tales—"Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral" and the title story—interspersed with ink drawings by the artist. "Sometimes it gets da…