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Dean Kiley

Dean Kiley taught in the English Department at Melbourne University and is the author of and that’s final (Black Wattle Press 1995).

Dean Kiley reviews 'Vanity Fierce' by Graeme Aitken and 'Gay Resort Murder Shock' by Phillip Scott

June 1998, no. 201 01 June 1998
Popular fiction is often character-driven. An immediate distinction between these heavily-populated novels would be that if I met the main protagonist of Scott’s book I’d want to have coffee with him whereas if I met Aitken’s I’d want to slap him. Both books star a gay narcissist of mirror-ball proportions. The symptomatic difference is that Scott’s comic creations do more with less eff ... (read more)