Pink Steam

by Dodie Bellamy

Fiction. "PINK STEAM is not kitschy, it is a culturally astute document of the real written by a master at the height of her powers"--Jennifer Moxley. The intimate secrets of Dodie Bellamy's life--sex, shoplifting, voyeurism, and writing are illuminated in Bellamy's incredibly tailored latest work where true confession bleeds into high theory into trash cinema. PINK STEAM barges beyond the cliches of gendered experience; unafraid of the personal, unabashed by politics and sex, Bellamy makes confusion her OK Corral. Dodie Bellamy is the author of CUNT-UPS and FEMININE HIJINX, both available at SPD.

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Essays, Queer, Literature

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2004

About the author

Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles. She is one of the originators in the New Narrative literary movement, which attempts to use the tools of experimental fiction and critical theory and apply them to narrative storytelling.

She ist married to Kevin Killian.

Reviews

[Paul Hoehn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bellamy is so generous. There’s not just one of anything here—not even typos.

I attempted to teach a class on New Narrative at UC Berkeley. You know, in the German Department. This probably would have been a better introduction than anything I actually assigned. So you can imagine how many of these pages have now been photographed and transmitted to Vienna, Berlin.

[Cary Stough · Rating 4 out of 5]

I could read Dodie forever. A permission giver if there ever was one.

[Kenzi · Rating 4 out of 5]

What is up with the queer/reptilian metaphors?? This is third book I’ve read that features queers that are maybe secretly crocodiles. Someone please explain.

[laisburningdown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm sorry I used your affair with the Zen monk in my Mina letter. It's just that you exude a daring and panache that wallflowers like me only dream of. You and the monk, me and Kevin-we couldn't get into the Kafka movie because Premiere had given out twice as many passes as seats. Weaving through a mob of drips who kept bumping into one another desperate for their freebies I said, "Damn!" Whereas you, your shaved head swiveling across the overflowing auditorium, smiled and announced, "This is a very Kafka experience." See what I mean? Did the monk really have a picture of a Thai girl with a Coke bottle up her cunt? All that is left is sex alone and its naked violence.

[Zoe]

this was good and fun but not as good as when the sick rule the word. interesting to see how dodie's sentences and style have changed over time..like her sentences are so much more looser and eileen myles in when the sick rule the world. and she's theorizing more there too. i rlly rlly loved the pickpocketing essay tho and how it's written in little stealable paragraphs and how she talks about that within the essay!!!! dodie ur awesome i love u

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

i have no idea what i just read, but it was mostly fun

[Elizabeth Metzger]

Dear Dodie Bellamy,

It's not you, it's me. I just haven't had the time to give you the full attention you deserve. I think you'd be better off with someone who can really give you what you need.

Beth

[J.C. · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have no idea why I read this book.

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A I loved this. Funny, all over the place, cute little stories, interesting, Dodie's great sense of humour, "Fire Hose," stories of love and sex and shoplifting...

[Tom Daly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a must-read for me because I was once a roommate of of Dodie's. It was interesting to read her account of that period....
partially true maybe from her vantage point.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

I reviewed this here: http://lesbrary.com/2011/04/19/lesbra....