{"product_id":"selected-amazon-reviews-hardcover","title":"Selected Amazon Reviews - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Killian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWayne Koestenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eDodie Bellamy\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn enchanting roll of duct tape. \u003ci\u003eLove Actually\u003c\/i\u003e on Blu-ray Disc. \u003ci\u003eThe Toaster Oven Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Biography of Stevie Nicks\u003c\/i\u003e, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com, sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many, many, many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe beloved author of more than a dozen volumes of innovative poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship, Killian was for decades a charismatic participant in San Francisco's New Narrative writing circle. From 2003-2019, he was also one of Amazon's most prolific reviewers, rising to rarefied \"Top 100\" and \"Hall of Fame\" status on the site. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, Killian's commentaries consider an incredible variety of items, each review a literary escapade hidden in plain sight amongst the retailer's endless pages of user-generated content. \u003ci\u003eSelected Amazon Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e at last gathers an appropriately wide swath of this material between two covers, revealing the project to be a unified whole and always more than a lark. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome for \"verified purchases,\" others for products enjoyed in theory, Killian's reviews draw on the influential strategies of New Narrative, his unrivaled fandom for both elevated and popular culture, and the fine art of fabulation. Many of them are ingeniously funny--flash-fictional riffs on the commodity as talismanic object, written by a cast of personas worthy of Pessoa. And many others are serious, even scholarly--earnest tributes to contemporaries, and to small-press books that may not have received attention elsewhere, offered with exemplary attention. All of Killian's reviews subvert the Amazon platform, queering it to his own play with language, identity, genre, critique. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKillian's prose is a consistent pleasure throughout \u003ci\u003eSelected Amazon Review\u003c\/i\u003es, brimming with wit, lyricism, and true affection. As the Hall of Famer himself reflected on this form-of-his-own-invention shortly before his untimely passing in 2019: \"They're reviews of a sort, but they also seem like novels. They're poems. They're essays about life. I get a lot of my kinks out there, on Amazon.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Killian (1952-2019) was a San Francisco-based poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, editor, critic, and artist. Highly prolific and radically queer, he published several volumes of poetry and short stories, as well as four novels. He also wrote and produced fifty plays, and with his wife, Dodie Bellamy, coedited \u003ci\u003eWriters Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to reviewing for Amazon, Killian published criticism in \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtweek\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFramework\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Poet D. A. Powell has called Killian \"a dark master of the word ... an inviting bridegroom and a voyeur who'll let us play in his fictions until we're spent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 704\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.65 x 9.06 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700089458751,"sku":"9781635902181","price":39.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/dd6895b5ed8f96cfb42b176a36e43fbc.webp?v=1765015438","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/selected-amazon-reviews-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}