Poet and Writer Kevin Killian On Books, Reading, and Facebook
Installation view of The Library of Particular Significance within the exhibition Bound to Be Held: A Book Show . Installation photo by Johnna Arnold. Artist Josh Greene's two-part exhibition Bound to Be Held: A Book Show celebrates the relationship between a reader and a book. One part of the exhibition, The Library of Particular Significance , focuses on instigating social interaction by recasting the gallery as a lending-library of donated "significant" books —a space for dwelling, reading, and connecting. A series of related public programs called In The Library of Particular Significance enlivens the space with read-ins, book discussions, and literary happenings led by special guests. Last week, writers and poets Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy collaboratively covered a lot of bookish ground: on books they first read and bought, on writers they met, on books (and book deals) that got away, ...