I RememberJoe Brainard Joe Brainard's I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O'Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember'. 'In simple, forthright, declarative sentences, he charts the map of the human soul and permanently alters the way we look at the