The diaries of Andy Warhol are being posted one daily entry at a time on 29 year time delay at the Andy War-Blog. For instance yesterday (29 years ago). Since we know how this story ends you can expect the Warh-Blog to wrap up sometime in 2016.
The diaries document the last nine years of Warhols life so none of the work from Andy Warhol/Supernova will be in it, but it’s a great read in a surprising format for any Warhol fan.
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Comment by Andy Warhol — June 18, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
New Novel about “Andrei” Warhol by Alexander J. Motyl
Who Killed Andrei Warhol is an absurdist tragicomedy that imagines a
friendship between pop artist Andy Warhol and a straight-laced Soviet
Ukrainian journalist who arrives in New York at the height of the
garbage strike in early 1968 to cover the impending American Revolution.
As the journalist, Sasha Ivanov, struggles to understand life in New
York, he decides that his fellow Ukrainian worker, “Andrei” Warhol, is a
socialist realist painter, a proletarian genius, and a passionate
Leninist. Ivanov also has an affair with Warhol’s would-be assassin,
Valerie Solanas, and gets implicated in intrigues involving the FBI, the
KGB, the Communist Party USA, the Black Panthers, and the Students for a
Democratic Society.
Alexander J. Motyl is a writer, painter, and professor of political
science at Rutgers University-Newark. His first novel was Whiskey
Priest; his art is represented by The Tori Collection.
Who Killed Andrei Warhol may be ordered directly from Seven Locks Press
(www.sevenlockspublishing.com) as well as from Amazon.com and
BarnesandNoble.com.
Advance praise for Who Killed Andrei Warhol:
Askold Melnyczuk, author of Ambassador of the Dead, founder/editor of
AGNI Magazine.
“All fiction is by nature revisionist and Motyl’s surprising and
ingenious novel, Who Killed Andrei Warhol, adds several dimensions to
our understanding of this American icon, blazing new avenues of approach
to a subject whose object was cultural depletion.”
Dzvinia Orlowsky, author of A Handful of Bees, winner of the Pushcart
Prize for Poetry.
“With wit and great energy, Motyl invites us to reconsider the heroic
forces that shaped Andy Warhol’s life and work as witnessed through
Communist comrade Sasha’s eyes. After reading this book, I don’t think
I’ll ever look at a Warhol painting quite the same way.”
Gloria Mindock, editor, Cervena Barva Press
“This novel is a riveting ‘Warholian’ masterpiece. The diary takes the
reader to the emotional inner conflict of Ivanov, who needs to decide
where his loyalty lies. Written with such a sophisticated take on
Ivanov, Alexander J. Motyl proves he is a writer to watch.”
Casey Dorman, author of I, Carlos
“Who Killed Andrei Warhol will delight readers with its humor, its
ability to capture the zeitgeist of America in the late 1960’s, and its
highly entertaining examination of the contradictions and absurdities of
Eastern and Western outlooks on the world.”
Comment by A. Motyl — November 16, 2007 @ 8:05 am
I always get excited when we find some stuff about Warhol. He was one of America’s greatest artists. His influence on Pop Art is incredible. I am sure that everybody thinks “I could have done that” but Warhol did it, and he did so much of it in a cheeky way. We came into some Warhol merchandise, and I just like to sit in awe of it. It is so incredible.
Comment by Richard McDuff — May 22, 2008 @ 8:53 am