The writer and poet Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian's wife and widow, hosts a celebration of Kevin's new book: "Selected Amazon Reviews" (Semiotext\\\\\[e\\\\\], 2024). Co-editors Hedi El Kholti and Robert Dewhurst read all the reviews (over a million words), which, they tell us, all subvert the Amazon platform, queering it to his own play with language, identity, genre, and critique.

Dodie begins with a conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum, who wrote the book's introduction. Then, a group of other writers each read a few reviews of their choice, including Lee Ann Brown, Lonely Christopher, Dia Felix, Kay Gabriel, Stephen Ira, Journey Streams, and Lynne Tillman.

“They’re reviews of a sort,” Kevin has said, “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.”

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