I nominate
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wocjnarowitz, by Cynthia Carr.
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Carr is an excellent reporter on the lives of artists -- as close to the facts in presentation as she is passionate about the subject -- and Wocjnarowicz, despite the tragedies of his life and childhood, represents an era of possibilities which no longer exist for urban American artists.
To read Carr is to be drawn into the story rather than conscious of the style.
Many of the
professional and
reader reviews have been laudatory so far.
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I'd also like to support the nomination of
Mythologies, by Roland Barthes, though I believe you have all the seconds and thirds you need.