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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh hey! @neglectedbooks.com asked me to write the introduction to the reissue of Herbert Clyde Lewis's SEASON'S GREETINGS, forthcoming in November and I said yes. My ARC arrived in the mail yesterday and it looks great!

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/09/2026

‘The white crinolines. The shrieking. So much to understand.’ Anne Carson goes to see Rosalía: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anne Carson · On Rosalía

We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...

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Mitch @mitch-h-r.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“What is this silence?” Was a dream to see Euripides’ ALCESTIS at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus. I laughed (at Hercules), cried (with the passionate Chorus) and left with some pretty tragic feelings (“The world is ending…Everything is violence.”). Not bad for a Satyr play!

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"The novel is by turns perceptive and inspiring as it traces the impact unresolved grief has on Kick’s relationships and frame of mind. It’s also really funny." Huge thanks to @mitch-h-r.bsky.social for this super-fun Q&A in Interlocutor! interlocutorinterviews.com/kathleen-roo...

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KATHLEEN ROONEY INTERVIEW MAN OVERBOARD

Author Kathleen Rooney in conversation with Mitchell Harrison about her new novel MAN OVERBOARD!

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Mitch @mitch-h-r.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@kathleenmrooney.bsky.social ’s new novel MAN OVERBOARD! is a total splash! Over at Interlocutor, we chat about the novel, the sea, cruise ships, the male lonesomeness epidemic and philosophizin’ sea creatures.

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KATHLEEN ROONEY INTERVIEW MAN OVERBOARD

Author Kathleen Rooney in conversation with Mitchell Harrison about her new novel MAN OVERBOARD!

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Mitch @mitch-h-r.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

H’ART Museum’s fantastic exhibition of Chicano prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“A jaunty work of surrealism… It’s a hoot.” Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for this review of my fifth novel MAN OVERBOARD!, out on July 7th!

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Mitch @mitch-h-r.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A breakup (with a city) poem I wrote was published by the Michigan City Review of Books: mcrb.neocities.org/saygoodbye

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Say goodbye to the city that deceived you by Mitchell Harrison

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"As critics we provide a service...showing the expanded possibilities for what a book could mean, what it meant to us and could thus mean to other readers." It's a great day to read @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social on why criticism continues to matter—read below! chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/11/w...

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Why Criticism Continues to Matter: Book Reviews and Our Literary Community - Chicago Review of Books

My neighborhood in Chicago has a delightfully high density of Little Free Libraries. Inside one of these late last year, I stumbled upon a reissue of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence P...

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Mitch @mitch-h-r.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Paris. Location scouting for the next novella. Cloud towers, cat people, twisted men and tuberculosis not guaranteed…But then again, what is these days!