Excerpt from The Whore Artist by Dudley Saunders
This villainy has been generously sponsored by a gift from Ben Kline. Learn more about sponsoring our dastardly deeds. In 2002, a year after 9/11, a forgotten performance artist named Gideon supports himself with sex work while he writes a final AIDS-themed piece he knows no one else wants to see. And Leon, a fading closeted Hollywood filmmaker, tries to revive his career with a glorified car commercial, which project fills him with self-hatred. At Leon’s office, bright young creatives pored through magazines, ripping images to paste up on what they all called a “mood board”: images to inspire, images…
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