 crad kilodney (june 1, 1948 â april 14, 2014) was the pen name of lou trifon, a canadian-american writer who lived in toronto, ontario, and was best known for selling his self-published titles such as bloodsucking monkeys from north tonawanda, suburban chicken-strangling stories and putrid scum on the streets of the city. born in jamaica, new york to a greek family, kilodney obtained a degree in astronomy from the university of michigan, but instead of working in that field he took a job at exposition press, a self-publishing vanity press based in hicksville, new york. many of his experiences in that job, and with vanity publishing in general, shaped his outlook on fiction and provided him with material for many stories. the stories "three dead men" and "a moment of silence for man ray" (both in girl on the subway) are examples of this. disgusted by watergate and u.s. culture generally, kilodney moved to canada where he worked at a number of other book publishers, mostly in their stockrooms, and while doing so decided that it might be best to reach people by publishing his books (under his own charnel house imprint) and selling them face-to-face on the street. this he did from 1978 through 1995, and published 32 books in this manner. kilodney could generally be found, and indeed was a fixture, on yonge street, at the university of toronto downtown campus and in front of the toronto stock exchange building with a cardboard sign hanging from his neck, holding a book he was selling. in 1991 kilodney was charged with selling commercial goods without a license, making him the only canadian writer ever charged fo
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