{"product_id":"fascination-memoirs-9781635900408","title":"Fascination: Memoirs","description":"\u003cb\u003eA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFascination\u003c\/i\u003e brings together an early memoir, \u003ci\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, \u003ci\u003eBachelors Get Lonely\u003c\/i\u003e, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding members of the New Narrative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 It concludes with \u003ci\u003eTriangles in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, a new, previously unpublished memoir of Killian's brief affair in the 1970s with the composer Arthur Russell. \u003ci\u003eFascination\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDiamond Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e--from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. \"Move along the velvet rope,\" Killian writes in \u003ci\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/i\u003e, \"run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: 'You did not live in our time  Be Sorry '\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKillian, Kevin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kevin Killian was a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, playwright, and art writer. Recent books include the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eTony Greene Era\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTweaky Village\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003ePoet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance.\u003c\/i\u003e With Dodie Bellamy, he coedited \u003ci\u003eWriters Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing, 1977-1997\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914202026258,"sku":"9781635900408","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eca4f81d-9ac4-493d-bfba-3ab2c2968606.jpg?v=1738809771","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fascination-memoirs-9781635900408","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}