Bookforum Remembers Kevin Killian

Bookforum paid homage to novelist, poet, playwright, and biographer Kevin Killian, as we have. "Tributes to the author, such as the ones that follow, have been showing up online all week, all of them pointing to Killian’s incredible presence." Andrew Durbin, Renee Gladman, and others contribute here. From Durbin's reflection: 

Since he passed, I keep re-reading Kevin’s Amazon reviews. In one from 2005, “If you don't mind yellow,” he takes stock of a pair of Michael Kors khaki shorts he bought while feeling flush one afternoon in April. They were too big and had “a flock of yellow butterflies” sewn to the crotch and ass. At first, they made him look like “an idiot,” but soon enough the shorts grew on him, “and now I wear them everywhere.” I never saw Kevin in those Kors, but I can easily imagine him shuffling along in butterfly stitchery. What would he have kept in his pockets, which were so big “you could put literally the whole contents of your knapsack”? ...

Read on at Bookforum.