Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the 70s & the 80s

Probably best known for his biographies City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara (definitive, that one) and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, Gooch turns his fine eye on himself. This memoir recalls his blazing life in 1980s New York and intense affair with film director Howard Brookner, who suddenly fell ill with a devastating new illness called AIDS.