SELECTED AMAZON REVIEWS (VOLUME 3)

Kevin Killian
selected and introduced by Dia Felix

Like Edmund Hillary, Kevin Killian dared to dream of the top of the mountain, and write his way into the Amazon Reviewers Hall of Fame (an actual thing) in a few brief years. “His writings are not really reviews,” avers media critic and professor Trebor Scholz. “They are rather autobiographical pieces of fiction.” Unpaid labor for a huge and heartless corporation? Or magical exercises to prepare for the revolution? You decide, for Dia Felix, the author of NOCHITA, has curated the largest and most pointed grouping of them yet, with her own autobiographical introduction, for Essay Press.

KEVIN KILLIAN, one of the original New Narrative writers, wrote three novels (Shy, Arctic Summer, and Spreadeagle), a book of memoirs, and three books of stories. He wrote four books of poetry, most recently Tony Greene Era. With Peter Gizzi he edited My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer. With Lew Ellingham, he wrote the acclaimed biography of Spicer, Poet Be Like God. He taught writing to MFA students at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.