This new collection of essays, selected after the death of Kevin Killian, my companion and husband of 33-years, circles around loss and abandonment large and small. Seven months into my widowhood, COVID-19 radically changed the world. In my struggle to reconcile my personal disaster with global disaster, I abandon conventional narratives of recovery and redemption. Instead, I explore how grief ushers in new states of being and of community.
Semiotext(e), 2021.
A PoMo resuscitation of the female protagonist of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, set in late 20th-century San Francisco.
Originally published by Hard Press in 1998.
New edition with introduction by Emily Gould.
Semiotext(e), 2021.
Edited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman
Informed by themes related to the work of Dodie Bellamy, the collection revolves around questions related to contemporary forms of feminism and sexualities, the rebirth of the author, and ways in which vulnerability, perversion, vulgarity, and self-exposure can be forms of empowerment. The texts cover a broad array of styles, including memoir, theoretical essay, art historical analysis, poetry, and fiction. The visual elements are equally diverse, ranging from photographs to collage to drawing.
The Wattis Institute and Sternberg Press, 2020
Edited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman
Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind is the first major publication to address Bellamy's prolific career as a genre-bending writer. Megan Milks made several trips to San Francisco in order to spend time with Bellamy and craft a provocative and fascinating profile of the writer. Originally delivered as a lecture at the Wattis Institute, Andrew Durbin's text takes the form of a personal essay, expertly weaving anecdotes of his own encounters with Bellamy's writing with insights into broader themes in her work. Academic Kaye Mitchell takes a close look at the role of shame and its relationship to femininity in particular texts by Bellamy. And Bellamy and her late husband Kevin Killian offer deeply personal, emotionally wrenching ruminations on topics from the mundane (drawing) to the profound (mortality). These texts, alongside archival photos and a complete bibliography make, this book an important compendium on Bellamy.
The Wattis Institute and Semiotext(e), 2019
17th Anniversary Edition, with an introduction by Sophie Robinson.
A feminist revision of the cut-up pioneered by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Fractured male and female voices and bodies bleed into one another. Bits of the confession of Jeffrey Dahmer are cut into the churning desire.
Tender Buttons, 2019. First published in 2001.
Cover image by Michelle Rollman.
Edited with Kevin Killian.
At last a major anthology of New Narrative, the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social struggle to change writing forever.
In the twenty years that followed America’s bicentennial, narrative writing was re-formed, reflecting new political and sexual realities. With the publication of this anthology, the New Narrative era bounds back to life, ripe with dramatic propulsion and infused with the twin strains of poetry and continental theory. The reader will discover classic New Narrative texts, from Robert Glück to Kathy Acker, as well as rare supplemental materials, including period interviews, essays, and talks, which form a new map of late 20th century creative rebellion.
Nightboat, 2017.
A collection of art writings.
Published as part of a 5-chapbook set: Say Bye To Reason And Hi To Everything, edited by Andrew Durbin.
Capricious, 2016.
In this collection of memoirs/essays I delve into sickness in all its various somatic and cultural manifestations, from tragedy to resistance, from terminal illness to Twitter.
Semiotext(e), 2015.
A melding of memoir, fiction, and inspired text, The TV Sutras explores the mechanics of charisma and belief. If you think you've never been in a cult, think again.
Illustrations by Neil LeDoux.
Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014.
In this sequel to Cunt-Ups, I sex up the Norton Anthology of Poetry.
I discuss my process here.
Les Figues Press, 2013.
In this memoir, derived from blog posts, I push my operatic suffering through an exploration of community, loss, and spiritual confusion.
Below is the photo by Colter Jacobsen that decorates the book's endpapers.
Publication Studio, 2011.
Yes this book is still in print!
Emily Books digital edition.
A collection of essay addressing the pitfalls of education—from the position of both teacher and student.
Krupskaya, 2006. Out of print.
My first collection of fiction, essays, and memoir, arranged chronologically according to references to my life, beginning with childhood and moving through to an attempted adulthood. My goal was to create a fragmented autobiography that peeks through disparate forms and contents.
Suspect Thoughts, 2005. Out of print.
Here's a video of Sonic Youth playing their song "Pink Steam," which was named after my book.
A correspondence between Mina of The Letters of Mina Harker and writer Sam D'Allesandro. Includes previously unpublished work by Sam, who died of AIDS in 1988, as well as an extended eulogy penned by Mina.
Talisman, 1994. Out of print.
A teeny book containing the first two stories I wrote when I switched from poetry to prose. Both pieces are about female friendship and were reprinted in Pink Steam.
Hanuman Books, 1990. Rare.
Hanuman Books was founded by Raymond Foye and Francesco Clemente in 1986. The series was designed to resemble Indian prayer books.
A chapbook comprised of two talks I gave on a panel at the Modern Language Association and as a visiting writer at California College of the Arts. Leaping off from Eileen Myles' essay "Everyday Barf," this memoir-cum- manifesto embraces the barf as a radical feminist form, and chronicles my long and complex friendship with Eileen.
Cover image by Raymond Pettibon.
Ugly Duckling Press, 2008.
