{"product_id":"fascination-isbn-9781635900408","title":"Fascination","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brings together an early memoir, \u003ci\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, \u003ci\u003eBachelors Get Lonely\u003c\/i\u003e, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding members of the New Narrative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 It concludes with \u003ci\u003eTriangles in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, a new, previously unpublished memoir of Killian's brief affair in the 1970s with the composer Arthur Russell.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\u003eKevin 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":46303265030373,"sku":"NP9781635900408","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781635900408.jpg?v=1767726744","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/fascination-isbn-9781635900408","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}