Details

ISBN-10: 0872865282
ISBN-13: 9780872865280
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 11/01/2009
Dimensions: 8.13" L, 6.48" W, 0.49" H

Published by City Lights

Impossible Princess

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Price: $11.17

Overview

“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.

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Reviews

"Kevin Killian is the greatest unsung genius in contemporary American literature."–Dennis Cooper, author of Everyman: Stories and Closer: A Novel

"Kevin Killian's Impossible Princess is impossibly captivating, each short story a bed of sticky pollen. It's an endless inspiration to writers and readers alike."–Susie Bright, editor of Best American Erotica

"Kevin Killian's stellar body of work defies categorization. His novels, stories, and poems have been around for over two decades, occupying sacred spaces on the bookshelves of idolators like me and many others. The pieces in Impossible Princess–some of them written with various splendid collaborators–are hilarious, sad, scary, intimate, weird, complex, really dirty, and most of all, first-rate. Each story's a little outburst of brilliance. I love this book."–Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear

"Kevin Killian has long been considered one of the finest, if unheralded, writers of experimental gay fiction."–Amazon.com

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Details

ISBN-10: 0872865282
ISBN-13: 9780872865280
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 11/01/2009
Dimensions: 8.13" L, 6.48" W, 0.49" H
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