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A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.
An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, 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.
The 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. Selected Amazon Reviews 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.
Some 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.
Killian’s prose is a consistent pleasure throughout Selected Amazon Reviews, 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.”
ASIN : B0CVZRC6C9
Publisher : Semiotext(e) (November 26, 2024)
Publication date : November 26, 2024
Language : English
File size : 1488 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 705 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1635902185
Reviewer: r
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Brilliant!
Review: a few nights ago i celebrated my 50th birthday. i had a cake and got this book as a gift. when i blowed out the candles, tears rushed into my eyes. the excuse i made to myself for the sudden burst of salty beads was all the smoke coming out from the already extinct little fire atop the sugar coated almond galette. a steady stream of memories, images and sounds, just like the cheesy time-lapses of many forgettable movies, rushed uncontrollably and made me feel giddy, as time travel does. instantly, i was comforted by the warm and playful gaze of the portrait adorning this sizable hard cover.i remembered the night after class in which a junkie or a hoarder, decided to pluck out the battery from under the hood of your years old ice blue town and country chrysler wagon. you were the stranded star, right there in the middle of a thriller: an eerily quiet and dark street, no passersby, the night slightly cold and foggy. we stayed together until the doppelganger of the village people album cover triple A guy, showed up on a heavy duty tow truck and saved the night. i remeber dozens of dumplings on a lazy susan and the sweet texture of your voice sprightly wondering âwhatâs that all about?â, after reading some obscure lines by elsa von freytag-loringhoven.in these absurd times, halfway â?â upon the journey of my life, iâm certain that, mischeviously, your reviews will last for the ages, perhaps even outlasting the amazon extinction. yours was a pursuit, a mission, to unearth the stardust in the everyday life, even better if it remained uncertain if that dust truly belonged to the carl sagan brand or to the kylie minogue kind, as long as it melted just like ice-creams or love or mystery. the cheerful subversiveness and profound comprehension of your endeavours dear kevin, are no doubt a gift of subtle solace for humankind, whatever that may beâ¦
Reviewer: Jed Herold
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: No Reviews?
Review: Perfect.