A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer | The New Yorker
A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer Between 2003 and 2019, Kevin Killian published almost twenty-four hundred reviews on the site. Can they be considered literature? “When you read them, yeah, they’re reviews of a sort,” Killian said of his reviews. “But they also seem like novels. They’re poems. They’re essays about life.” One day, he is writing about Liz Kotz’s art-historical volume on the “turn toward language” in visual art in the nineteen-sixties. Then he is doing a close reading of Kristen Stewart’s hair in “Twilight.” Then a tape of “Viniyoga Therapy for the Low Back, Sacrum and Hips.” (“I wanted to get a good viniyoga tape ever since the early ’70s when, as a boy, I suffered a lower-back injury in France, when I was pushed out of a slowly moving bus by some schoolmates.”)
A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer
Between 2003 and 2019, Kevin Killian published almost twenty-four hundred reviews on the site. Can they be considered literature?
“When you read them, yeah, they’re reviews of a sort,” Killian said of his reviews. “But they also seem like novels. They’re poems. They’re essays about life.” One day, he is writing about Liz Kotz’s art-historical volume on the “turn toward language” in visual art in the nineteen-sixties. Then he is doing a close reading of Kristen Stewart’s hair in “Twilight.” Then a tape of “Viniyoga Therapy for the Low Back, Sacrum and Hips.” (“I wanted to get a good viniyoga tape ever since the early ’70s when, as a boy, I suffered a lower-back injury in France, when I was pushed out of a slowly moving bus by some schoolmates.”)