Kevin Killian bol americký básnik, autor a dramatik, známy predovšetkým svojou tvorbou v oblasti LGBT literatúry. Je tiež uznávaným editorom. Spolu s Peterom Gizzim redigoval zbierku básní Jacka Spicera, ktorá získala American Book Award. Jeho román Impossible Princess bol ocenený Lambda Literary Award za najlepšiu gay erotickú fikciu. Killian je tiež spoluzakladateľom Poets Theater, vplyvnej skupiny pre poéziu, divadlo a performance v San Franciscu.
Featuring a curated collection from over two thousand product reviews, this book showcases Kevin Killian's distinctive voice and sharp wit. His reviews, known for their insightful commentary and humor, reflect a wide range of products, offering readers a unique perspective on consumer culture. This selection not only highlights Killian's literary prowess but also serves as a fascinating exploration of everyday items through the lens of a celebrated author.
“Whatever his subject matter, Killian maintains full authority—offering up a homoerotic interpretation of Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find and a brilliant imagined history of Hank Williams. Here, under the author’s careful control and easygoing charisma, everything seems up for grabs, and almost anything seems possible.”—Time Out New York Impossible Princess is the third collection of gay short fiction by PEN Award–winning San Francisco–based author Kevin Killian. A member of the “new narrative” circle including Dennis Cooper and Kathy Acker, Killian is a master short story writer, crafting campy and edgy tales that explore the humor and darkness of desire. A former director of Small Press Traffic and a co-editor of Mirage/Periodical, Killian co-wrote Jack Spicer’s biography, Poet Be Like God, and co-edited three Spicer books, including My Vocabulary Did This To Me: Collected Poems. His latest book, Action Kylie, is a collection of poems devoted to Kylie Minogue.
Exploring the complexities of gay life in 1970s Long Island, this memoir combines Kevin Killian's early work, Bedrooms Have Windows, with the unpublished Bachelors Get Lonely and a new piece, Triangles in the Sand. It captures his struggles as a writer amid the vibrant yet challenging culture of the time, marked by loneliness and desire. With humor and poignancy, Killian reflects on a transformative era, intertwining personal experiences with cultural references, including the impact of Nixon's resignation and the music of David Bowie.
Over 40 years ago, Andy Warhol promoted the concept that artists are celebrities, just as worthy of portrayal as other cultural icons. Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists begins where Warhol left off. Presenting visually striking and conceptually diverse works in a range of mediums, Likeness is the first exhibition and catalogue to propose a recent history of artists' representations of other artistsof friends, peers, and idols.While any portrait is both a document and a personal record of the relationship between the artist and his or her subject, blurring distinctions between public and private, portraits of artists further enrich the situation; they commemorate and concretize the intimate social dramas of the art world and the economies of exchange. Selected here are over 50 paintings, drawings, photographs, and works in other media, created by a loose network of artists primarily active in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Berlin during the past three decades. Included are works by David Armstrong, AA Bronson, Bruce La Bruce, Chuck Close, Tacita Dean, Sam Durant, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Richard Hamilton, Mike Kelley, Sean Landers, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Misrach, Dave Muller, Paul Noble, Julian Opie, Elizabeth Peyton, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Welling, and others.
