KevinFenton
@KevinFenton
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Novelist (Merit Badges, AWP Prize; Cyan Magenta Yellow Black, Big Moose Prize -- forthcoming 2025), Memoirist (Leaving Rollingstone). Opining into the void.
Saint Paul, MN
Joined January 2009
I just realized that commenting on We Rate Dogs post isn't actually on my to-do list.
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I just realized that I've been in twitter/x for 15 years. That sentence just feels wrong.
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Writing a novel, however dystopian, is an act of hope, such as the political hope of Margaret Atwood or the spiritual hope of Flannery O'Connor, which "give voice to a familiar muscular optimism," @KevinFenton writes:
magazine.nd.edu
In her review of Cormac McCarthy’s bleak last books, Slate critic Laura Miller asks: If McCarthy was as hopeless as he seemed to be, why did he bother writing a novel at all? I offered my two cents...
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Haven't posted in a bit but happy about this new piece in @GreatRiverRev. They also really upped the look of their home page. It is, among other things, a review of an imaginary Stones album.
greatriverreview.com
Kevin Fenton is the author of the novel Merit Badges, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel, and the memoir, Leaving Rollingstone. His work has appeared in the Laurel Review, the Gettysburg Review,...
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I may be alone in this but I think The Banshees of Inisheen would have been vastly improved by the addition of a few Derry Girls. "You did what? Are you fecking nuts?" cc @LisaMMcGee
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Philistine alert: I've read ten--one a night—and, so far, Shakespeare's sonnets strike me as kind of insipid. the language is exquisite but the gist is: you're hot, don't let it go to waste.
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One of the funnest parts about publishing a book was pulling together a playlist. Thanks, David!
Today is @largeheartedboy's 21st birthday. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the site's success. Writers, musicians, booksellers, friends, readers, and publishers have all been essential parts of the books + music equation (that equals love)
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The scifi comedy Avenue 5 just name-checked AS Byatt and Margaret Drabble. This gives me more pleasure than it should. ("Just" = Season 2 Episode 6)
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Clicking on trending subjects is a fast track to misanthropy.
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I ran into a neighbor of mine last night and she said, "I just finished your novel and I just LOVE it. But I've had three glasses of wine." I am okay speaking to the pleasantly drunk audience.
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Can't fully see one exchange but it may be referring to this, which is an ad agency's version of a book. (I write ads so that's not judging.)
progressive.com
As a new homeowner, have you noticed yourself turning into your dad or mom? Combat Parentamorphosis with Dr. Rick's commercials and more.
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In the latest @sewaneereview, @CPhillipsPoet has a wonderful essay on stamina, the thing that keeps us going--and growing--over the long haul, despite praise, criticism, success, or failure.
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Also: I've been told that I should read Motherhood or How Should Be A Person Be instead. I will do that.
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Thoughts on Sheila Heti's Pure Colour, which I'm almost through: When she breaks small conventions, it's frustrating. When she breaks big ones, it's thrilling.
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