THE DISINTEGRATION OF A CRITIC

Jill Johnstoncultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian iconwas renowned as a writer on dance, especially on the developments a round Judson Dance and the 1960s downtown New York City scene, and later as the author of the radical-feminist classic Lesbian Natio n (1973). This book collects thirty texts by Jill Johnston that were initially published in her weekly column for The Village Voice between 1960 and 1974. The column provided a format in which Johnston could dissolve distinctions between the personal, the critical , and the p...[Read more]