Geoffrey Mak

Writing on Raving is the definitive mix of voices from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, providing fresh language for the shared and infinitely varied experience of dancing through the night until the morning. New York rave culture is having a moment. The music, mostly, is techno, certain flavours of which became the soundtrack to a dancefloor culture that...

"An intellectually vivid and curious collection that refuses to find simple answers to its complex questions."—NPR Books We Love "This book is a rare comfort, a companion . . . Makes you say: yes, that is exactly how it is.” —Torrey Peters A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in...