Kathleen Rooney
@kathleenmrooney
Editor at Rose Metal Press & Professor at DePaul Writings: Typewritings: Man Overboard!: A Novel (July '26):
Tomorrow night! Thursday, July 16th at 7 pm! I'll be at the Highland Park Library discussing Man Overboard! with Rebecca Hayes! Swim through!
This book is superb! From beginning to end! especially on the idea that the marvelous is an aspect of the real!
At the Man Overboard! event Anderson’s Bookshop last night, someone brought in this poster they had made of Lillian Boxfish’s walk for their book club & it rules.
Tonight! Monday, July 13 at 7:00 pm! I'll be at Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, Illinois in conversation with Caro Macon Fleischer about Man Overboard! and signing copies with my seahorse pen and seahorse stamp! See you there!
Humberto Ak’abal’s The Animal Gathering is a deceptively simple delight. Thank you @rogersparkman.bsky.social for the book!
Today! Saturday, July 11 in Hyde Park with @bside-editions.bsky.social at 3 pm!
I don’t know if you guys know this, but @stephenking.bsky.social writes some pretty excellent scary books. I just finished this one. Very scary!
Thank you to everyone who came to the Book Stall in Winnetka tonight to hear Sara Levine & me talk about Man Overboard!
Thank you so much to @amrangowani.com for the fantastic Q&A at the Man Overboard! launch at the Book Cellar this evening, thanks to the Book Cellar for the cookies, and thanks to everyone who came out to talk about fiction on a Tuesday night!
My dudes, MAN OVERBOARD! is officially out today! Thanks to Logan Berry for this interview at Zona Motel & for coining "the Rooney-esque." And see you at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square tonight at 6:30 where I'll be in conversation with the one & only @amrangowani.com!
The graphic that the Book Cellar created for my conversation about my forthcoming novel Man Overboard! with @amrangowani.com this coming Tuesday 7/7 at 6:30 pm is a delight. See you there! RSVP at the link!