Reviews for Impossible Princess

The average rating for Impossible Princess based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-08-04 00:00:00 Carla Gant "'When pressed to account for her affinity to gay men, Moira always smiled and said, "I am a gay man, trapped in a woman's body…This is San Francisco!"' At once funny, knowing, sexy, and a tad twisted, Moira (a character in Kevin Killian's story "Greensleeves") reflects the overall tone of Impossible Princess, an eclectic collection of short fiction that sparkles, sizzles, and arouses the intellect." -Jim Gladstone, Passport Magazine Colin Herd, Chroma "'What portion of one's personality is a fiction?' . . . It's a question that swims through [Impossible Princess:] . . . It swims through, dives in, submerges itself, reemerges and winsomely skinny-dips in the at times murky, at turns sparkling ponds of Killian's energetic, muscular, sassy, exquisite prose." Publishers Weekly "Ten homoerotic stories by Killian (Spreadeagle) explore startling encounters between the straight and gay worlds. Several of the stories, set in the 1970s, appeared in Killian's previous collections, such as 'Hot Lights,' in which a strapped-for-cash student gets hired for a hardcore porn shoot, and ''Spurt,' set in a Long Island motel where a couple of commuters congregate to indulge in morbid sex. Others are elaborate romances, such as ''Dietmar Lutz Mon Amour,' where an erotic encounter with a security guard in the basement of San Francisco's De Young museum provides a fulfilling intellectual kinship for the married narrator, and ''Too Far,' in which a straight swimming pool salesman from Maryland clearly wants to experiment with a man at a party, though he may get more than he anticipates. Killian is best being self-consciously writerly, as in 'Rochester,' in which a naïve writer arrives at the dilapidated home of the legendary writer 'Kevin Killian,' only to discover a decrepit has-been who keeps a pet chimpanzee typing in the bedroom. Fans of Killian's work will be pleased to find fresh stimulation with shades of Dennis Cooper."

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-05 00:00:00 Ian Hulsey I don't know whether I want to fuck, get fucked, set a government building on fire or all of the above at the same time while also downing a bottle of Chablis. Kevin Killian was a true gem.