Sean Kilpatrick – Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 49: Sean Kilpatrick)

Sean Kilpatrick

SEAN KILPATRICK wrote Anatomy Courses (with Blake Butler; Lazy Fascist Press, 2012); Gil the Nihilist: A Sitcom (Lazy Fascist Press, 2013); Sucker June (Lazy Fascist Press, 2015); Thank You, Steel China (Schism [2] Press, 2016), Sir William Forsythe’s Freebase Nuptials: A Screenplay (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2017), and Collected Scripts (11:11 Press, 2021). He has written for Nerve, Fence, Vice, Bomb, Evergreen Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Hobart, New York Tyrant, Exquisite Corpse, Juked, and The Collagist, among several other publications. Check out his podcast.

Six Lessons From “Anatomy Courses”

So hey: I picked up Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick’s collaborative work Anatomy Courses last week. Subtitled “A Skin Dictionary,” it’s a book that seems designed to reject any easy categorization or, really, any interpretation at all. In lieu of a proper review, here are six thoughts on the book.