Steve Katz Writes - Kissssss: A Miscellany

STEVE KATZ WRITES

Published Works
   -NEW: Kissssss: A Miscellany
   -Antonello's Lion
   -Saw
   -Swanny's Ways
   -43 Fictions
   -Journalism
   -Florry of Washington Heights
   -The Lestriad
   -Wier & Pouce
   -Stolen Stories
   -Moving Parts
   -Cheyenne River Wild Track
   -Creamy & Delicious
   -The Exagggerations of Peter Prince
   -The Weight of Antony

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Kissssss: A Miscellany • Winter 2007; FC2, Tuscaloosa, AL

Available at Amazon.com here.

This collection--derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility--contains passionate and subversive acts of language, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life.

At once playful and devastatingly serious, Steve Katz employs a variety of forms--genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games--while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to churn the waters of imagination and truth.

"Steve Katz comes off the loping forward rush of his latest masterful novel, Antonello's Lion, with a collection of short pieces: acerbic, innovative, humorous, and above all, perversely engaging."
-Rudy Wurlitzer

"Steve Katz's comic genius is subversive. Readers beware. You may die laughing."
-Walter Abish

"Steve Katz is an American treasure: a delirious imagination in a major stylist. His 2006 novel Antonello's Lion is an epic comic lament. Reading these stories you can imagine Flann O'Brien crossed with Nathanael West. No one has chronicled the impact of the women's movement more vividly and with less bias. No one has performed more lovingly surgery on the international art scene."
-Wendy Walker

"In my opinion, Steve Katz is the greatest living novelist in English, and one of the most likely to keep our hearts and minds in good working order, to keep us truly human in a world where brainless tech-loving Moorlocks hog the sunshine, and thoughtful, life-loving Eloi have been driven underground."
-William Bamberger