Liz Corkery

Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia

Recommended by Liz Corkery

in response to Gabriela Riccardi

What’s a book you’ve read that makes great dinner-party conversation? Hit me with the Dadaist art history that made you get into sculpture, the magpie biography whose eccentric subject runs laps around Edies Big and Little, the lightly Christian true-crime where the cult did THAT thing. Weird histories? Shocking industries? Nervy tell-alls with great guts and/or gossip? I want them all!

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My husband and I both went to art school so have built-in curiosity for the topic. I love how pre-internet everything is, and the perennial art-school combo of irrepressible ego and crippling self-doubt.

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