Andrew Durbin and Tash Aw: The Wonderful World That Almost Was

Andrew Durbin talks to Tash Aw about Durbin’s new book, The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

Andrew Durbin’s The Wonderful World That Almost Was unravels, for the first time, the intertwined stories and work of two boundary burning, paradigm-tilting American artists, Peter Hujar and Paul Thek. Weaving together deft art criticism with moving portraits of both men’s inner lives and assembled with exhaustive research, Durbin’s book is an ode to a lost but still-living world – and two men who defined it.

Durbin was in conversation with Tash Aw, author most recently of The South.