The Writings of Novelist and critic Gary Indiana speak to the despair and hysteria of America in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, adding something essential to contemporary America culture that would be almost entirely missing without him. Fire Season brings together his political and cultural criticism of the last thirty-five years, equal parts caustic and tender, wry and tragic. Whether he's writing about the Boston Marathon bombing, the Kennedy assassination, or Disneyland Paris, he manages to articulate and interrogate the anxieties of a specific moment in time as no one else could. He also pays homage all through this collection to his own idiosyncratic canon of artists, filmmakers, and writers; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment; and speaks discerningly, insolently, eloquently about high art and pop culture. Few writers would dare to say the things Gary Indiana says. How fortunate for us that he does. Book jacket.