KEVIN P. KEATING
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Writer and Instructor of English |
| Location | Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Introduction | * After working as a boilermaker in the steel mills in Ohio, KEVIN P. KEATING became an instructor of English and began teaching at Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University, and John Carroll University. * His essays and stories have appeared in more than fifty literary journals, and his first novel, "The Natural Order of Things," was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. * His second novel, "The Captive Condition," was released by Pantheon Books in July of 2015. * He lives in Cleveland. |
| Interests | * Mythology * Gnosticism * Upanishads * Bhagavad Gita * Homer * Greek Tragedian * Stoic Philosophers * Joseph Campbell * Mircea Eliade * Alan Watts * Robert Alter * Stanley Kubrick * David Lean * Cleveland * Bicycling * Hiking * National Parks * Nature * Science * Religion * Filmmaking * Reading * Writing |
| Favorite movies | * Barry Lyndon * 2001: A Space Odyssey * The Shining * Crimes and Misdemeanors * Empire of the Sun * Jaws * Network * Citizen Kane * Vertigo * Lawrence of Arabia * Ryan's Daughter * Chinatown * There Will Be Blood * Birdman * The French Dispatch |
| Favorite music | * John Williams * George Gershwin * Antonio Carlos Jobim * Paul Simon * Beethoven * Bach * Mozart * Brahms |
| Favorite books | * The Odyssey (Robert Fagles, trans.) * The Orestia (Ted Hughes, trans.) * Genesis (Robert Alter, trans.) * The Sound and the Fury * As I Lay Dying * Abasalom! Absalom! * Outer Dark * Child of God * Blood Meridian * The Power and the Glory * The Quiet American * The Heart of the Matter * Ficciones * Blindness * All the Names, * Notes from Underground, * One Hundred Years of Solitude * Nineteen Eighty-Four * Animal Farm * Waiting for the Barbarians * Life & Times of Michael K * Disgrace * Revolutionary Road * The Easter Parade * The Mosquito Coast * The Aspern Papers * Of MIce and Men * The Grapes of Wrath * Cannery Row * East of Eden * The Pearl * Seize the Day * Portnoy's Complaint * The Sheltering Sky * So Long See You Tomorrow * Lolita * London Fields * Affliction * Moon Palace * The Henriad * Slaughterhouse Five * Stoner * The Name of the Rose * The Remains of the Day |