Kevin P. Keating: Fiction, Essays & Commentary

Now Available for Pre-Order! Releases July 7, 2015: From a thrilling new voice in fiction comes a chilling and deliciously dark novel about an idyllic Midwestern college town that turns out to be a panorama of depravity and a nexus of horror. For years Normandy Falls has been haunted by its strange history and the aggrieved spirits said to roam its graveyards. Despite warnings, Edmund Campion is determined to go there and pursue an advanced degree in literature. At first things proceed wonderfully, but Edmund soon learns he isn’t immune to the impersonal trappings of fate: his girlfriend Morgan Fey smashes his heart, his advisor Professor Martin Kingsley crushes him with frivolous assignments, and his dead end job begins to take a toll on his physical and mental health.   One night he stumbles upon the body of Emily Ryan, a proud and unapologetic “townie,” drowned in her family pool. Was it suicide, Edmund wonders, or murder? In the days following the tra...

From  Cleveland Magazine : " Keating's debut novel,  The Natural Order of Things , was a finalist for the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. The St. Ignatius High School graduate set the darkly compelling series of 15 interwoven stories in a familiar place — at a Jesuit all-boys school in a Midwestern industrial city. The novel landed Keating, an adjunct professor at Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University and Lorain County Community College, a book deal with Random House, which will release his second novel,  The Captive Condition ,  in July...." READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE

From River City Reading : "Ten Books I Can't Wait to Read in 2015" READ ARTICLE HERE

From  Library Journal : "People in the know are talking about this new work from Keating, a former steel mill’s boilermaker who became an English professor and literary journal regular until his small-press first novel,  The Natural Order of Things , was named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 2012. The current publisher did the paperback reprint but is putting its energy behind this dark and edgy tale..." CONTINUE READING ARTICLE HERE

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