Stripping and Other Stories by Pagan Kennedy

In Publishers Weekly, a reviewer applauded Platforms as a 'hilarious, highly personalized history of what may be the goofiest of modern decades.' Suggesting that clever marketing strategies were responsible for selling 'hipness' to the American public, Kennedy cites in Platforms the example of 'Earth shoes'-consumers, guided through advertising and promotion, formed the impression that Earth shoes 'had something to do with nature.' Other aspects of the 1970s are discussed in Platforms as well, such as the social and political forces which influenced trends in television and film. In addition, Kennedy's short fiction, which can be found in such literary journals as The Quarterly, is collected in the book Stripping and Other Stories. Considered an 'insightful' chronicler of popular trends and fashions by a reviewer in Publishers Weekly, Kennedy interprets deeper meanings behind fads of the 1970s in the book Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s. SIDELIGHTS: Columns and articles about pop culture by Pagan Kennedy have been printed frequently in periodicals like the Voice Literary Supplement, as well as in Kennedy's self-published fanzine, Pagan's Head. The Exes (novel), Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1998.īlack Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in 19th-Century Congo, Viking (New York, NY), 2002.Ĭontributor to periodicals, including Interview, Nation, Mademoiselle, Women's Review of Books, Mirabella, and Voice Literary Supplement.

Pagan Kennedy's Living: A Handbook for Maturing Hipsters, St. 'Zine: How I Spent Six Years of My Life in the Underground and Finally Found Myself, St. Spinsters (novel), High Risk (New York, NY), 1995. Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s, St. Stripping and Other Stories, High Risk Books (New Y ork, NY, 1994.

Recycling and antiwar activist.ĪWARDS, HONORS: National Endowment for the Arts fiction grant, 1993 nominated for Orange Prize in the United Kingdom. Host of Boston-based cable television show. Adjunct instructor, Boston College, 1995. E-mail- ĬAREER: Publisher, Pagan's Head magazine, 1988-93 Village Voice, New York, NY, columnist, 1990-93 Voice Literary Supplement, 'zine' columnist, 1991- freelance writer. Education: Wesleyan University, B.A., 1984 Johns Hopkins University, M.A., 1988.ĪDDRESSES: Office-High Risk Books, 180 Varick St., New York, NY 10014. PERSONAL: Born September 7, 1962, in Washington, DC daughter of Gordon (an economist) and Joan (a homemaker maiden name, Burke) Kennedy.

Stripping and Other Stories by Pagan Kennedy