Tweaky Village takes scrambled bits of pop culture, light, and color, and reassembles them into flickering lines that create, ultimately, a cohesive, captivating picture
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The acknowledgements section of Kevin Killian’s new novel, Spreadeagle, notes that much of the book’s content began its life as...
"...I realized there wasn’t any point in me trying to be the new Henry James, Marcel Proust or William Faulkner. Living in California, I think, helped this. California is like the home of failure, I suppose. Not only failure, but contingency, accidents and things falling apart..."
Novelist and critic Kevin Killian took some time to talk with Lambda about his new novel, Spreadeagle, Kylie Minogue, and writing inspired Amazon.com reviews. Read More
Collections such as this also invariably bring up the question, “What is a ‘gay story,’ anyway?” Is it simply a story that a gay person has written? Something that features gay characters prominently? How much focus needs to be on the uniqueness of gay life, or can the protagonist be someone who “just happens to be gay?” Does the author have to be gay—or male—to do it justice? Read More
