Fascination

Memoirs

Kevin Killian, Andrew Durbin, Chris Kraus

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Semiotext (E)
11 December 2018

Autobiography: literary; Memoirs; Literary essays

Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents

A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.

Fascination brings together an early memoir, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, Bachelors Get Lonely, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding members of the New Narrative movement. The two together depict the author's early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up, boozy, drug-ridden world of Long Island's North Shore in the 1970s.

It concludes withTriangles in the Sand, a new, previously unpublished memoir of Killian's brief affair in the 1970s with the composer Arthur Russell.

Fascination offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era-a time in which Richard Nixon's resignation intersected with David Bowie's Diamond Dogs-from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. ""Move along the velvet rope,"" Killian writes in Bedrooms Have Windows, ""run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito- 'You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!'""

By: Kevin Killian, Chris Kraus
Edited by: Andrew Durbin
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 506g
ISBN: 9781635900408
ISBN 10: 1635900409
Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 11 December 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Kevin Killian was a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, playwright, and art writer. Recent books include the poetry collections Tony Greene Era and Tweaky Village. He is the coauthor of Poet Be Like God- Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance. With Dodie Bellamy, he coedited Writers Who Love Too Much- New Narrative Writing, 1977-1997.

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Kevin Killian, Andrew Durbin, Chris Kraus

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