Read ‘Andy Warhol’ by Keith Ridgway online
The Stinging Fly is still the talk of the town (well, the web bit of it, at least) over in New York. The Literarian, the online journal from The Center for Fiction, has made The Fly its featured international journal for their latest issue. And to mark the occasion, they’ve republished Keith Ridgway’s wonderful short story, 'Andy Warhol', which first appeared in our New York-themed issue.
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"I am standing still, smoking a cigarette, staring at Marilyn Monroe. This is Dublin. In the mid-1980s. I am waiting outside the Gay Men’s Health Clinic, or whatever it’s called, on Haddington Road, off Baggot Street. Marilyn is looking at me. And I’m looking at her." And I am walking with a semi and a cigarette through the Upper East Side of New York City. And it’s a few months earlier. And I am staring at Andy Warhol, wondering if that is Andy Warhol, if it is really Andy Warhol. I’m twenty. In both places, all the time." |