Kevin P. Keating: Fiction, Essays & Commentary

From  Mystery Scene Magazine: " Literary novels, horror, and humor seldom mix—fantasist Christopher Moore being one of the rare exceptions—but now comes Kevin P. Keating to deliver a brilliant novel so dark, yet so laugh-out-loud funny, that he’s close to inventing a new genre... Keating first broke on the literary scene with the highly praised  The Natural Order of Things , which was described as a combination of Jack Ketchum and Jonathan Franzen. This second book, every bit as masterful, illustrates what might have happened to Holden Caulfield if he had wound up in Normandy Falls instead of the relatively virtuous New York City." Read the Entire Review

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer : A carefully crafted, darkly humorous work, pulsating with our passion for revenge. It drags  us up out of the muck, dripping with all of our human weaknesses, failures and cruelties, and says, "Take a close look at how far we  haven't  come." Early on, the protagonist says he wants one day to write "an enigmatic, ruthlessly apocalyptic, elegantly filthy dirigible of a novel." And now – with Keating as his amanuensis – he has done so. READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW

From  Lit Reactor: "I like weird. No, actually, I love weird. If a book contains quirky Lynchian characters, occult ritualism, and en masse drug usage, generally speaking, I’m in. Luckily,  The Captive Condition  contains all of this in spades. Every character would be right at home in a Lynch film. But don’t get me wrong, even though I’ve mentioned Lynch twice in the same paragraph (and now a third time.),  The Captive Condition  isn’t a rip off of a David Lynch film (now four times), because Kevin P. Keating has created a wholly original and intriguing universe in the bizarre world of Normandy Falls." READ THE REVIEW HERE

From  Open Letters Monthly : "The Captive Condition  is a big, smart, showy Grand Guignol feat, an order of magnitude more accomplished and more interesting than  The Natural Order of Things , but it’s also involvingly funny. This is the book that renders it now impossible to ignore – or even safely categorize – Kevin Keating as an author, and in a publishing season full of too many near-cloned novels, that’s a wonderful arrival." READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW

Publishers Weekly "Picks of the Week": THE CAPTIVE CONDITION : "This week, dirty Seinfeld fan fiction, a David Lynchian campus novel, and Kim Stanley Robinson's latest..." READ MORE HERE