Larry McMurtry wrote about you, saying, “Let’s hope he keeps his novelistic cool and brings us much, much more.” We agree! What can we expect from you next?
I am working on another novel, this one set partly in the art world. For more than a decade I wrote about art for the New York Times and now I work in publications for an international art gallery, so I’ve wanted for years to write about an artist and about the hazy borders between rationality and delirium in the making of art. The setting will be a mental hospital in the Sacramento Valley in California.
About the Author
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Randy Kennedy was born in San Antonio and raised in Plains, a farming town in the Texas Panhandle, where his father worked as a telephone lineman and his mother as a teachers’ aide. He moved to New York City in 1991 and worked for twenty-five years at the New York Times, first as a city reporter, then for many years writing about the art world. A collection of city columns, Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York, was published in 2004. He is now the director of special projects for the art gallery Hauser & Wirth. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Janet Krone Kennedy, a clinical psychologist, and their children, Leo and Iris.
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The author acknowledges permission to quote from “Mr. Fool,” words and music by Darrell Edwards, George Jones, and Herbie Treece, copyright © 1959 (renewed 1987) Trio Music Company, Fort Knox Music, Inc., Pappy Daily Music LP, and Glad Music Publishing & Recording LP. All rights for Trio Music Company administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC. All rights reserved. And from “I Must Be Somebody Else,” words and music by Merle Haggard, copyright © 1966 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. Copyright renewed. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Lyrics for both songs are reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard LLC.
Also included are lyrics from “My Horses Ain’t Hungry” and “The Butcher’s Boy,” traditional, and from “Little Rosewood Casket,” published by Louis P. Goullaud and Charles A. White, 1870.
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Map by David Atkinson/Hand Made Maps Ltd
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Jacket photograph: Horseshoe Bend Motel, Lovell, Wyoming, July 16, 1973 © Stephen Shore, Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York, and Art + Commerce
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kennedy, Randy, 1967– author.
Title: Presidio / Randy Kennedy.
Description: First Touchstone hardcover edition. | New York : Touchstone, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017032629 (print) | LCCN 2017033152 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501153884 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501153860 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501153877 (trade pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Brothers—Fiction. | Kidnapping—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3611.E6 (ebook) | LCC PS3611.E6 M7 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017032629
ISBN 978-1-5011-5386-0
ISBN 978-1-5011-5388-4 (ebook)
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