Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings

Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings

Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings

Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings

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Overview

“Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the reader’s life.” —Michael Chabon

A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life, captured through a vivid selection of O’Brien’s own writings on music to fashion to downtown art and, just as importantly and unexpectedly, the political temperature of America.

Glenn O’Brien collaborated with visual artists, writers, fashion houses, and musicians throughout his almost 50-year career. Intelligence for Dummies gathers Glenn O’Brien’s essays, aphorisms and tweets, to create a portrait of the artist as cultural bellwether, complimented by artwork and photographs from his collaborators. A full color, hardcover edition, Intelligence for Dummies is a deeply personal aperçu into Patti Smith and Jean Michel Basquiat’s New York, and the culture of money that ensued. It also reveals O’Brien’s incisive and prescient understanding of America’s political culture, and of our current president.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781733540100
Publisher: The Unnamed Press
Publication date: 10/22/2019
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 1,069,159
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Glenn O’Brien (1947-2017) was one of the most widely read and influential magazine writer-editors of the last fifty years and was a hall-of-fame copy - writer and creative director whose ads are ingrained in popular culture. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, O’Brien studied at Georgetown Universityand Columbia UniversityGraduate School of the Arts. After college, he joined Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, which he helped shape over his 20-year association. He wrote regular columns in publications including Artforum, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Paper, Purple, and Spin, and was widely read on the subjects of art, fashion, and music. Beloved as GQ’s “Style Guy”, his witty advice column was syndicated in GQ editions around the world. O’Brien’s wrote dozens of books, including 2011’s best-selling How to Be A Man, published in six countries.

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"Glenn O’Brien delivered irony and grace with every gesture, thought, and sentence. He was acid-edged knowledge with a flounce of camp, a deeply intelligent person, and the voice you want on Warhol’s factory and the absurdities, generally, of life in the later twentieth century. If you’re a critic, read this book and weep that you’ll never be him, nor write like him." --Rachel Kushner

"Glenn O’Brien was, depending on how you look at it, either the first or the last real man: sensitive, cultured, astute, funny as fuck, gentle, with style to die for. Whether you think he inspired the best or is the end of a certain lineage, you still know he was rare. I was lucky to know him and feel luckier still to have his writing to remind me what a blessing his voice was." --Lena Dunham

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