Intelligence For Dummies eBook

Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence in the readers life. --Michael Chabon

A portrait of a keen social observer at the center of the last 50 years of cultural life, captured through a vivid selection of OBriens own writings on music to fashion to downtown art and, just as importantly and unexpectedly, the political temperature of America.

Glenn OBrien collaborated with visual artists, writers, fashion houses, and musicians throughout his almost 50-year career. Intelligence for Dummies gathers Glenn OBriens essays, aphorisms and tweets, to create a portrait of the artist as cultural bellwether, complimented by artwork and photographs from his collaborators. A full color, hardcover edition, Intelligence for Dummies is a deeply personal aperçu into Patti Smith and Jean Michel Basquiats New York, and the culture of money that ensued. It also reveals OBriens incisive and prescient understanding of Americas political culture, and of our current president.