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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

29 October 2026 "Beyond Autonauts of the Cosmoroute, he never published a diary. Aurora Bernárdez says that Cortázar’s best autobiography is his correspondence." Kevin Anthony Brown on «Selected Letters of Julio Cortázar, Vol. 1 (1937-1966)». www.newenglishreview.org/articles/car...

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Author Appearances, Lectures, Presentations & Speeches 21 September 2026 National Book Critics Circle member Sullivan Summer interviews Kevin Anthony Brown on getting away with murder in print: the craft of artisanal, non-academic essays. blacklitcrit.substack.com/p/black-lit-...

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Title: «Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» Publisher: Parlor Press Publication Date: 16 July 2024 Order Page Link: parlorpress.com/products/cou... Red Hook Star-Review: www.star-revue.com/quinn-on-boo... Massachusetts Review: www.massreview.org/node/11751

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

30 April 2026 The Charterhouse of Parma is a tale of cronyism, extortion and greed set in era “whose turpitude and venality cannot, in your wildest imagination, be exaggerated.” Kevin Anthony Brown on Stendhal at 200. www.newenglishreview.org/articles/thr...

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Three Times Three: Stendhal at 200

by Kevin Anthony Brown (April 2026) 1 C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, a translator of Proust, also translated Armance, The Red and the Black as well as The Charterhouse of Parma. Three

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Culture, History, Politics, Society & Sports 23 January 2026 New York Rangers - 1 of 32

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Title: "Conjure Women" - An Essay-Review of «The Romare Bearden Reader» Publication: Salmagundi Publication Date: April 2020 Summary: The Romare Bearden Reader anthologizes writings by and about Romare Bearden, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, John Edgar Wideman and August Wilson .

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Culture, History, Politics, Society & Sports "Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves." Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Writing Projects - Diary 9 July 2026 "The true nature of Power is to serve Itself." Variation on a Theme of Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian army officer, 1780-1831

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Timelines/Chronology (1988-1994) For better and for worse, the New York literary mafia simply worked like this. Gore Vidal (c. 1990) said, "call Barb." Barbara Epstein said, "fax it over." That wasn't corruption and/or cronyism. That was just "connections." Because one HAD to be able to write.

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Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Read the new issue, out now.

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Circumstances, Events & Situations 1990-2026 In «A Fish in the Water», Mario Vargas Llosa describes his 1990 loss to Alberto Fujimori in the Peruvian presidential election. Fujimori's daughter Keiko, a right-wing candidate, was declared President of Perú on 30 June 2026.

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Circumstances, Events & Situations 22 June 2026 (1/1) In Colombia, Right-Wing President Elected In Argentina - 1956 "The then-unknown Colonel Perón, whose star was beginning to rise . . . saw clearly that the era of the masses had arrived for the country. Ernesto Sábato

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Family, Friends, Lovers, Colleagues & Acquaintances Sunday, 21 June 2026, Father's Day Fathers & Sons Never forget. Never regret.

Camilo Brown-Pinilla (left) with his father Kevin Anthony Brown on Long Island, 10 July 2014.

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

There are no "deplorables," only "persuadables". That's my approach as a literary journalist. "Listen, all I need are 87 million votes."

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Culture, History, Politics and Society 28 May 2026 The 100 Best 20th-Century Books, according to Le Monde & FNAC booksellers. As one would expect, this 1999 list is a VERY alternate take on what constitutes Great Literature, compared with the Guardian's (2026). fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_cen...

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Research & Development 6 June 2026 Fall 2026 Catalog - New York Review Books (page 2)

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Research & Development 6 June 2026 Fall 2026 Catalog - New York Review Books (page 1)

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“I defend [Democracy],” Flaubert sighed. “But I have no faith in it.” “Give them liberty, but not power.”

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» (Table of Illustrations) Travel Journal La Chinesca, Mexicali, Baja California #Chinatowns #Museums #Borderlands

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Marketing, Publicity & Audience Development 29 December 2025 The following speaks . . . volumes about the book biz. But gives no inkling of what it's like to get up and write every single day. www.vulture.com/article/book...

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28 Book Industry Professionals Get Candid About The Year in Books

“Nobody wants to write narrative anymore, but that’s where the fairy-monster-sex books are running laps around the litfic authors.”

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

2/2 19 January 2026 Now that one I have NOT applied for. Nor borrowed off anybody. Nor barked up the wrong tree, nor harangued the wrong people when I didn't win it. But I WAS at an event, in NYC, when four Nobel laureates in literature were celebrating the work of a fifth at an Irish wake😉

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

19 January Marketing, Publicity & Audience Development - Oslo Syndrome I've applied for literary Awards, Contests, Fellowships, Grants, Prizes & Scholarships: Graywolf Harvard/Radcliffe Hodder Guggenheim National Book Awards NEA PEN Silvers Whiting I apply, but don't beg. Am gracious in defeat.

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Marketing, Publicity & Audience Development 9 June 2026 Challenge - name 10 over-rated essay-reviewers from the parochial Anglosphere: Emre Merve Feng Rhoda Lorentzen Christian Mallon Thomas Pinckney Darryl Rothfeld Becca Sehgal Parul Wilson Jennifer Wood James This relates to the Guardian 100

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

National Book Critics Circle - Spotlight - Member Kevin Brown

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Title: «Criticism & The Age: James Wood & Virginia Woolf» Publisher: (Mariner Books/HarperCollins) Date: October 2021 Special mention for Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2020, “Criticism and the Age,” an essay-review of James Wood’s «Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019».

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Title: "Criticism & The Age" Publication: Decadent Review (Berlin) Publication Date: 9 July 2020 Summary: Essay-Review of James Wood's «Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019». Link: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Research & Development 6 June 2026 Fall 2026 Catalog - New York Review Books (page 1)

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The parallel between publishing and democracy is clear: "You walk into a Barnes & Noble or click through Amazon . . . you can choose anything, but whatever you choose is overwhelmingly likely to be a book from a Big Five publisher. You’re “free” to choose anything, but you . . . buy a best-seller."

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Writing Projects - Notebooks & Correspondence 1 June 2026 A diary is a soliloquy intended for a future audience of at least one(self). A letter is a colloquy à deux.

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Writing Projects - Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews 1983 Director - Carlos Saura Films - Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) (1981); Carmen (1983) Threepenny Review. Note: Flamenco dance-dramas, play-within-the-play www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Writing Projects: Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews October 1993 Alain Locke's «The New Negro» American Book Review, Vol. 15 No. 4 Note: As a writer aged 65 I remember Old School "clipping files". We kept manila folders FULL of newspaper clips of past publications. Archiving them here.

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(PDF) Alain Locke - Essay-Review of «The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance»

PDF | Alain Leroy Locke is one of the dozens of outsized characters from the Harlem Renaissance. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Writing - Book Projects 16 July 2024 Selected Bibliography - «Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History»

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