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Kevin Brennan

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Kevin Brennan is the author of seven novels, including Parts Unknown (William Morrow/HarperCollins), Yesterday Road, and, coming in May '22, The Prospect. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Berkeley Fiction Review, Mid-American Review, Twin Pies, The Daily Drunk, Sledgehammer, Fictive Dream, Atlas and Alice, LEON Literary Review, MoonPark Review, Atticus Review, and others. He's also the editor of The Disappointed Housewife, a literary magazine for writers of offbeat and idiosyncratic fiction, poetry, and essays. Kevin lives with his wife in California's Sierra foothills. ...more

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Kevin Brennan I don't suffer from writer's block, per se. It seems like I've developed a routine that lets me jump right into things easily and carry on till it's t…moreI don't suffer from writer's block, per se. It seems like I've developed a routine that lets me jump right into things easily and carry on till it's time to stop. But, like most writers, I do experience problems with any given project that make it feel like it's not working, and so I have to change direction or start over. Sometimes that's even worse than writer's block!(less)
Kevin Brennan Fascination is a novel centered around a woman who's particularly good at the old arcade game of the same name. I had read a newspaper article about F…moreFascination is a novel centered around a woman who's particularly good at the old arcade game of the same name. I had read a newspaper article about Fascination "parlors" that still exist hither and yon, and the idea ... fascinated me. It becomes sort of a Zen and the art of archery thing, because it allows my protagonist, Sally Pavlou, to empty her mind and sort things out. She's a searcher ... (less)
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Yesterday Road

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Occasional Soulmates

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Town Father, Or, Where Grac...

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Parts Unknown

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In No Particular Order

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Eternity Began Tomorrow

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Three for a Girl

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The Prospect

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More observations on rain, raininess, and the rainy season

It’s been so wet that mushrooms are popping up all over the place, broad ones with amber flat tops that look greasy. Some of them have been nibbled on by critters, which makes me wonder how animals know if a mushroom is edible or poisonous. Maybe they’re not poisonous to animals, who knows? I remember … … Continue reading → Read more of this blog post »
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“Yet there was definitely something off about Truthing. He struck me as ambitious. I know, right? But I wasn’t sure what he really wanted. It seemed like the presidency was means to some other end. Even though he expected to lose.”
Kevin Brennan, Eternity Began Tomorrow

“I’m not about to let perfect be the enemy of the good here, okay? We’re getting under this cat’s skin, and I want him making some unforced errors.”
Kevin Brennan, Eternity Began Tomorrow

“A silver/blue Bentley sat waiting, the trunk pre-popped by Chad’s fob, and the aroma of unrestrained elegance wafting up my nose like pot smoke in the Mission District. You know what it is even if you’ve never partaken.”
Kevin Brennan, Eternity Began Tomorrow

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
Saul Bellow, Herzog

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Hello Kevin,
It's such a pleasure having you for a friend. I am looking forward to reading your work! Thank you and best wishes.
Warmest regards,
CJ

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