Lee Boudreaux Books
“Heart-rending”
The New Yorker
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“A dead-on account of youthful obsession…”
Christine Schutt, The New York Times Book Review
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“McKeon is admirably unafraid to push her characters through harrowing extremes of emotion”
Carmela...

    Lee Boudreaux Books


“Heart-rending”

The New Yorker


“A dead-on account of youthful obsession…”

Christine Schutt, The New York Times Book Review

“McKeon is admirably unafraid to push her characters through harrowing extremes of emotion” 

Carmela Ciararu, The New York Times 

“Exquisite…Captures something essential about vulnerability, love and longing.”

 Kirkus (Starred Review)


“Insanely beautiful” 

 Bustle


“Richly nuanced and utterly absorbing”

  The Guardian


“Thrums with sadness, desire and the dizzying desire to possess.”

  The Financial Times

UPCOMING EVENTS

Columbia University (Heyman Center)

Cuala NYC’s Women’s Shebeen

with Eimear MacBride, Tara Clancy and others

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

6.15pm

Cúirt International Festival of Literature

Town Hall Theatre, Galway

with Jennifer Johnston

Saturday, April 23, 2016

4.30pm

Center For Fiction, New York

for Granta 135: New Irish Writing

with Colm Tóibín, Mary O’Donoghue, Stephen Sexton & Sally Rooney

Wednesday, May 5, 2016

7pm

Harvard Bookstore

(at the Cambridge Public Library, MA)

for Granta 135: New Irish Writing

Thursday, May 5, 2016

6.30pm

Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival

Edgeworthstown, Ireland

Saturday, May 14, 2015

Happy Ending Series

Symphony Space, New York

With Ani diFranco, Charles Bock, Amber Tambyln and others

Wednesday, May 18 2016

7.30pm

ABOUT

Belinda McKeon’s debut novel Solace won the 2011 Faber Prize and was voted Irish Book of the Year, as well as being shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. 

Her second novel, Tender, will be published in the US by Lee Boudreaux Books in February 2016. (Read the Kirkus starred review here.)

Her essays and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, the Guardian, A Public Space and elsewhere. As a playwright, she has had work produced in Dublin and New York, and is currently under commission to the Abbey Theatre. She lives in Brooklyn and is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University

A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance
Edited by Belinda McKeon
With stories by Sam Lipsyte, Maria Takolander, Gina Apostol, Sara Baume, Kevin Barry, Mark Doten, David Hayden, Elske Rahill, Ross Raisin, Porochista Khakpour, Francesca Marciano, Niven...

A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance

Edited by Belinda McKeon

With stories by Sam Lipsyte, Maria Takolander, Gina Apostol, Sara Baume, Kevin Barry, Mark Doten, David Hayden, Elske Rahill, Ross Raisin, Porochista Khakpour, Francesca Marciano, Niven Govinden, Yoko Ogawa, E.C. Osondu, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Suzanne Scanlon, and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. 

Published by Tramp Press. Learn more here.