Now up on my Substack for subscribers-only. Free Jazz in Japan: A Book Review in the Form of a Personal Meditation. A long-form essay on silence, grace, secret art, watercolours, free jazz and old friends: reversediorama.substack.com/p/free-jazz-...
My latest Substack post announces details of the first of my hand-made chapbooks, Old Sea Remember Me, exclusive to paid Substack subscribers, my appearance at Edinburgh Book Fest tomorrow night (Fri 21 Aug), signed editions and more: reversediorama.substack.com/p/old-sea-re...
Bought this to go on holiday. Didn't open it - too busy holidaymaking. Now I have; Jeso! - @reversediorama.bsky.social - captures something I'd thought I'd lost; that willow-the-wisp of magic possibilities. He writes like a fever dream of Glasgow.
#BOOKS Finished 'England's Hidden Reverse' by David Keenan < @reversediorama.bsky.social > (expanded ed., @strangeattractor.bsky.social, 2016). Excellent book about #Coil, #Current93, and #NurseWithWound. Chock full of good #Music info about England's "esoteric underground." #Reading
David Keenan & Andrew O’Hagan: Boyhood “A love letter to Glasgow – a city where magic happens” In this @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk podcast, David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social reads from his latest novel BOYHOOD, & talks with Andrew O’Hagan 💙📚 www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
David Keenan and Andrew O’Hagan: Boyhood | London Review Bookshop
David Keenan speaks to Andrew O'Hagan about Keenan's latest novel, Boyhood
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Psyched to announce that the latest podcast from the LRB Bookshop is a Boyhood special and features me in conversation with the brilliant Andy O’Hagan. We go deep. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
New for paid subscribers to my Reverse Diorama Substack. Boyhood Tour Diary Part 3, where I hook up with Lindsay Hutton of The Next Big Thing zine and reminisce about his influence and generosity and reprint an embarrassing letter I sent him as a kid: reversediorama.substack.com/p/boyhood-to...
Rather lovely bit of bookmail yesterday with titles from @reversediorama.bsky.social and @jeffnoon.bsky.social. 2nd this year from Keenan as i picked up Boyhood, his new fiction when back in Glasgow but this one is collected music writings which starts with a piece on the mighty Pere Ubu
Came (very) late to the amazing This Is Memorial Device. Anyway, have left it in some good (and some odd) company in the holiday house in Spain we are soon leaving. It will hopefully impact others from its new home… @reversediorama.bsky.social
Since This Is Memorial Device, David Keenan has carved a singular career as an author unlike any other. Latest novel Boyhood is arguably his best to date Out now via @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social We caught up with @reversediorama.bsky.social Words by Ali Braidwood snackmag.co.uk/david-keenan...
Psyched to announce that I’ll be back at Edinburgh International Book Festival this August to talk about my latest novel, Boyhood. Can’t wait to see everyone x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
Belter of a review for Boyhood in the print edition of the Times Literary Supplement. Feels absolutely mental that this could possibly be my seventh novel, but here we are. Big thanks to Nicholas Clee. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
My essay on Apuleius' "The Golden Ass" and David Keenan's "Xstabeth" is now publicly viewable on YouTube! @reversediorama.bsky.social youtu.be/v6AA28Kcft0
Apuleius and Xstabeth
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Psyched to be a guest on the brilliant Across The Pond podcast and to talk to Lori and Sam about Boyhood. Get it where you get your podcasts or listen via the link below. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/32vj...
Over on my Substack I’ve posted Part One of my Boyhood Tour Diary: Edinburgh Tuesday 7th April 2026. Make sure to subscribe to read further instalments. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social reversediorama.substack.com/p/boyhood-to...
Ghosts, golf, and butt stuff: please listen to me talk about our only novel from ancient Rome, alongside @reversediorama.bsky.social David Keenan's "Xstabeth," an anti-literary literary novel from 2020 that really wants you to think about the *anal* in *analysis.* www.patreon.com/posts/apulei...
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Thanks to Alistair Braidwood for the piece on Boyhood in the new issue of @snackmag.bsky.social which you can read on-line or in print wherever you pick up the mag. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social snackmag.co.uk/read-this-mo...
like a fever, sometimes wet, dream turned stream of consciousness this one is special. I was especially unprepared for how bloody funny it is also; 'sniffing records?', reader, I lol'd, nice work @reversediorama.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
Like most of DK’s books Boyhood has reoriented my brain and I expect it will go back to normal eventually but I’m in no rush tbh.
David Keenan@reversediorama.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnother brilliant review for Boyhood, this time in the Times Literary Supplement! Big thanks to Nicholas Clee. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
Another brilliant review for Boyhood, this time in the Times Literary Supplement! Big thanks to Nicholas Clee. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
Tonight! The Boyhood book tour arrives in Manchester! Can’t wait to see everyone x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
Spent good chunks of yesterday and today finishing off David Keenan’s latest novel ‘Boyhood’. As with all his novels it’s a work you can and should get completely absorbed in. Might write more about it but for now suffice to say I’m grateful we have him. Thank you @reversediorama.bsky.social
Big thanks to Ian Cusack for the magnificent review of Boyhood 🙏 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social payaso-de-mierda.blogspot.com/2026/05/men-...
Very much looking forward to returning to my favourite literary outpost in Manchester next week for the second phase of the Boyhood tour. Psyched to see everyone x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
@reversediorama.bsky.social Thanks for signing this on Friday in Paisley. Buzzing cos I got Remy, Mary Hanna & Street Hassle to sign it too!! Patrick called me a fanny for asking and the guys he was with (who I think might’ve been some of Sentimental Mercenaries) pissed themselves laughing at that 🤷♂️
@reversediorama.bsky.social Hi David, I’m reading Boyhood at the moment and it’s fantastic! You keep surpassing yourself. Incredible.