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1001
Beds
Performances, Essays,
and Travels
Tim Miller
Edited by Glen Johnson
Living
Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
"If I continue to tour for
another twenty years, as I have for the last twenty-one, I will
end up sleeping in at least 1000 hotel beds in my lifetime. For
maximum poetic oomph, let's say 1001 beds. . . . They symbolize
a life and art dedicated to reaching out toward folks from Bozeman
to Tampa. A life and art that has traveled widely and, I believe,
reached a couple hundred thousand people with my stories of queer
life and love."
—Tim Miller
For a quarter century, Tim Miller has worked
at the intersection of performance, politics, and identity, using
his personal experiences to create entertaining but pointed explorations
of life as a gay American man–from the perils and joys of
sex and relationships to the struggles of political disenfranchisement
and artistic censorship. This intimate autobiographical collage
of Miller's professional and personal life reveals one of the
celebrated creators of a crucial contemporary art form and a
tireless advocate for the American dream of political equality
for all citizens.
Here we have the most complete Miller yet–a raucous collection
of his performance scripts, essays, interviews, journal entries, and
photographs, as well as his most recent stage piece Us.
This volume brings together the personal, communal, and national
political strands that interweave through his work from its beginnings
and ultimately define Miller's place as a contemporary artist,
activist, and gay man.
 Tim Miller is an
internationally acclaimed performance artist and gay rights activist.
He is the author of the books Body Blows
and Shirts & Skin and his performance texts
have appeared in the play collections O Solo Homo and
Sharing the Delirium. He teaches performance at the University
of California, Los Angeles, School of Theater and is cofounder
of Performance Space 122 in New York City and Highways Performance
Space in Santa Monica, California. Glen Johnson is professor
of English and media studies at the Catholic University of America.
An interview with Tim Miller is available
on the Lit show web site.
Read a review of 1001 Beds on TheatreMania.
There is a press
kit available for Tim Miller's book. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)
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March 2006
328 pp. 6 x 9
30 b/w photos
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Cloth $60.00 s
ISBN 978-0-299-21690-0 |
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Paper $19.95 t
ISBN 978-0-299-21694-8 |
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Visit Tim Miller's website or read his blog.
"Performance artist Tim Miller has
been a pioneering and inspiring figure for twenty-five years.
. . . 1001 Beds shows Miller as an engaged and effective
storyteller and provocateur. It will attract readers from a variety
of constituencies and be wonderful for classes."
—Lynn
C. Miller, editor of Voices Made Flesh |