Tantrums: Collected Prose, Scripts, and Criticism 2003 - 2023

by Sean Kilpatrick

Collected Prose, Scripts, and Criticism 2003 - 2023
Introduction by Alfred Wichly
Sucker June (expanded and revised)
Alfred Wichly's Mother Tongue (finally uncensored)
Don't Weigh In (psychotic reaction reviews)
Every script and play corrected (Gil the Nihilist, Sir William Forsythe, Nudes, Twitterfinder General, Shock Test, Goliards, Gumshorn)

494 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2013

About the author

Sean Kilpatrick authored books of poetry, prose, scripts, criticism, and Anatomy Courses (w/ Blake Butler). Writings appeared in Boston Review, Nerve, Fence, Vice, Sleepingfish, Bomb, Evergreen Review, Columbia Poetry Review, New York Tyrant, Obsidian, The Malahat Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, fluland, Tarpaulin Sky, Exquisite Corpse, La Petite Zine, The Volta, LIT, Jacket2, Whiskey Island, The Quietus, Fanzine, berfrois, young mag, Hobart, surfaces.cx, Diagram, tragical, Safety Propaganda, Apocalypse Confidential, Misery Tourism, Countere, 30 Under 30 Innovative Fiction, Dzanc Best of the Web 2010, HTMLGIANT, Best American Essays 2014 notable, etc.

Reviews

[David Kuhnlein · Rating 5 out of 5]

To a degree rarely rivaled, Sean Kilpatrick lives for words. Tantrums is a testament to the last twenty years of his life, and includes absolutely batshit scripts, joyfully brutal fiction, and brutally vehement criticism. The title – Tantrums – is a gentle admonition, as every piece hails like a fit of bad temper. Kilpatrick’s style is dictated by a lively hatred. His imagination is as diffuse as the language allows it to be. If writing is a means of revenge, then Kilpatrick’s prose swings as low as possible, leashed only by a peculiar style. At once precise and verbose, the prose seems guided by something inhuman, and Kilpatrick has even written: “I’m trying, impossibly, for an art that transcends dogma to become its own dogma.” Tantrums is his best try yet.

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