Kevin Maloney

Kevin Maloney is the author of Horse Girl Fever, The Red-Headed Pilgrim, and Cult of Loretta. His writing has appeared in Fence, HAD, Forever Magazine, and a number of other journals and anthologies. He is the co-founder and fiction editor of Pool Party, which he runs with his wife, writer and artist Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney. They live together in Portland, Oregon, with their one-eyed dog and three cats.

Art, Oxy, & L.A.: An Interview With Luke Goebel By Kevin Maloney

April 23, 2026 · Interviews & Reviews

Luke Goebel is a unicorn in the literary world: an outlaw writer with an underground classic in the indie lit community (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, 2014) who has also collaborated on screenplays for two major Hollywood films, Causeway and Eileen, cowritten with Ottessa Moshfegh (the two married in 2018). His new novel, Kill Dick, seeks to bridge these worlds, bringing all of the fire, guts, and intelligence of an experimental indie to a page-turning sunshine noir thriller that feels ready for the big screen (and is in the works). The result is an imminently readable crime novel…

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OLIVER by Kevin Maloney

March 2, 2018 · Fiction

I was sitting in a McDonald’s in Elkhart, Indiana, eating a Big Mac, crying and swallowing. The beef, or whatever gray rubber they wedge between the white bread and Thousand Island, was foul and made my stomach churn, but under my disgust was the pleasure of my unshackling. In Burlington, Vermont, the communist outpost where until 13 hours ago I’d lived in unhappy matrimony, everybody was vegetarian or vegan. Somehow, I’d gotten sucked into that nonsense; for eleven years, I’d subsisted primarily on kale, a leafy green that tastes the way doilies look. It was my wife’s doing. She wanted…

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