Impossible Princess by Kevin Killian (PDF)

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“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 YorkImpossible 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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Editorial Reviews: From Publishers Weekly Ten homoerotic stories by Killian (Spreadeagle) explore startling encounters between the straight and gay worlds. Several of the stories, set in the 1970s, appeared in Killian’s previous collections, such as Hot Lights, in which a strapped-for-cash student gets hired for a hardcore porn shoot, and Spurt, set in a Long Island motel where a couple of commuters congregate to indulge in morbid sex. Others are elaborate romances, such as Dietmar Lutz Mon Amour, where an erotic encounter with a security guard in the basement of San Francisco’s De Young museum provides a fulfilling intellectual kinship for the married narrator, and Too Far, in which a straight swimming pool salesman from Maryland clearly wants to experiment with a man at a party, though he may get more than he anticipates. Killian is best being self-consciously writerly, as in Rochester, in which a naïve writer arrives at the dilapidated home of the legendary writer Kevin Killian, only to discover a decrepit has-been who keeps a pet chimpanzee typing in the bedroom. Fans of Killian’s work will be pleased to find fresh stimulation with shades of Dennis Cooper. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review “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 About the Author A founder and former director of Small Press Traffic, Kevin Killian was a hidden favorite of gay literary San Francisco. He was the author of many books including the PEN award-winning Little Men (1996), I Cry Like a Baby (2001), Shy (1989), Arctic Summer (1997), Spread Eagle (2010), Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and Action Kylie (2008), a collection of poems inspired by Kylie Minogue. He co-wrote the Jack Spicer biography, Poet Be Like God (1998) and co-edited several volumes of Spicer’s work, including My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008). With his wife Dodie Bellamy, he edited the long-running poetry zine Mirage/Periodical. His work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in, among others, Best American Poetry 1988 (ed. John Ashbery), and Discontents (ed. Dennis Cooper). Impossible Princess won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Erotic Fiction. Kevin Killian died on June 15th, 2019. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This book is not for someone who wants a nice easy read of short stories. Some of them are crazed (like a man fantasizing or actually being raped to death by a big cat in the zoo) and some are brutally honest (like an autobiographical story about participating in a porn film). Kevin Killian’s style is clean and crisp; he tells the story with just enough flair. My only complaint is sometimes he cuts them a bit too short, like he’s reached his maximum word allowance. Minor quibble.If you want an adventurous journey into a wild and crazy world, this is the book for you. Sort of the anti-Cheever, but in a good way.

⭐Kevin Killian’s blend of fiction with nonfiction makes for an incredible avante garde hybrid publication. With the caveat that you must absolutely expect the sexually unexpected, this book is a profound source of inspiration for any writer questioning just what limits can be pushed — Killian urges us throughout to just go for it! Beautiful, magnetic. I put it down, only so that I could savor each individual piece on its own – DS

⭐Kevin Killian writes in a very original manner, often with an autobiographical element. His novel Shy has a main character called Kevin, I seem to remember, and has the ring of lived-through experience. At the same time there is something unbridled and wild about the content, and sometimes it lurches into the violent, which I’m not so keen on. One tale involves someone getting badly hurt in a shower. A story featuring a pop star’s underpants stolen at a party remains pleasingly in the memory … I seem to remember the star catching the thief redhanded. I certainly enjoyed that one. He has the ability to bring an unexpected charge to sexual material, as he is a proper writer and doesn’t fall into cliche. In fact Killian is bisexual, and his writing draws on these varied strings on his bow. Altogether I found him intriguing and challenging and will return to this book, which stands somewhere between the confessional and William Burroughs, or something of that feel … I see I bought the book almost three years ago, so it does stick in the mind.

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