{"product_id":"fascination-memoirs-9781635900408","title":"Fascination: Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kevin Killian\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: The MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFascination\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together an early memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBachelors Get Lonely\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, by the poet and novelist Kevin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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTriangles in the Sand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a new, previously unpublished memoir of Killian's brief affair in the 1970s with the composer Arthur Russell. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFascination\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDiamond Dogs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. “Move along the velvet rope,” Killian writes in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBedrooms Have Windows\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, “run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: 'You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!'”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45268907851927,"sku":"9781635900408","price":1098.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781635900408.webp?v=1769236767","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fascination-memoirs-9781635900408","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}