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Kevin Killian’s Amazon Reviews, Part 1
From Selected Amazon Reviews, to be published by Semiotext (e) this month.
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A Pretty Girl, a Novel with Voices, and Ring-Tailed Lemurs
Extracts from forthcoming books by Kathryn Davis, Jane DeLynn, N. H. Pritchard, Katherine Rundell, and Izumi Suzuki.
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The City Is Covered in Snow: From the Notebooks of Orhan Pamuk
At the heart of this book there is a dream I’d had before I ever started writing and drawing in these notebooks. I have managed to make sense of some parts of the dream, but others I still don’t ...
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Women Singing in the Deep Sea
They are far from shore.
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The Color of Neville Brand's Front Teeth
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
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The Jewish Furrier Explains the Search for Beauty
Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...
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Klimt and Schiele Confront the Cunt
turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...
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There Is Only One Clique and You Are the Only One
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...
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The Hawk's Cry in Autumn
Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...
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The Dead Soldier's Talk
I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.
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The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...