{"product_id":"fascination-memoirs-by-kevin-killian","title":"Fascination: Memoirs by Kevin Killian","description":"\u003cp\u003eA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFascination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings together an early memoir,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1989) and a previously unpublished prose work,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBachelors Get Lonely\u003c\/i\u003e, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding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concludes with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTriangles in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e, a new, previously unpublished memoir of Killian's brief affair in the 1970s with the composer Arthur Russell.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFascination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiamond Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e--from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Move along the velvet rope,\" Killian writes in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 312 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44062048387287,"sku":null,"price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9781635900408.jpg?v=1693742506","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/fascination-memoirs-by-kevin-killian","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}