Author Kevin Killian was astoundingly erudite, even among his heady artistic milieu in pre-tech San Francisco. In online reviews, he found a stage on which to explore identities.
Kevin Killian’s literary universe is a carnival of knowledge — equally carnal and bookish. His wife, writer Dodie Bellamy, wrote in 2000 that his droves of sexual partners “fell in the four-digit range.
We expect these reviews to be funny, but so often they hold out the possibility of comedy only to shake free our emotions, as in a 2005 review of “The Sunshine on My Face: A Read-Aloud Book for Memory-Challenged Adults,” when Killian brings the volume in question to what he whimsically terms a “local elder hostel” and reads to an octogenarian who tells the author about his D-Day experiences on Omaha Beach: 'Some residents said that this man had not spoken aloud in years, and one said this...
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