Press

“Horse Girl Fever”Publishers Weekly (Jul 2024)

“Write or Die Magazine’s Staff and Contributor Book Picks of 2023”Write or Die (Dec 2023)

“The Best Books We Read in 2023”Independent Book Review (Dec 2023)

“10 Must-Read Books of 2023”Southwest Review (Dec 2023)

“On When to Set the Rules: Writer Kevin Maloney discusses the importance of play, the meaning of life, and finding family within the arts” – Shy Watson, The Creative Independent (Aug 2023)

“A Pilgrim’s Pilgrimage: Talking Fact and Fiction with Kevin Maloney” – Tobias Carroll, Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Aug 2023)

“Pilgrim Power” – Cathy Carroll, 1859: Oregon’s Magazine (Jul 2023)

“making less happen and just letting things meander a little” – Wendy C. Ortiz, Mommy’s El Camino (Jul 2023)

“Wandering with the Pilgrim: A review of Kevin Maloney’s The Red-Headed Pilgrim” – Joseph Edwin Haeger, Afterimages (May 2023)

“The Quixotic Cringe of ‘The Red-Headed Pilgrim’” – Kevin M. Kearney, The Millions (Apr 2023)

“Slightly Psychedelic: On Kevin Maloney’s ‘The Red-Headed Pilgrim'” – Nick Gardner, Cleveland Review of Books (Mar 2023)

“What Explore Booksellers suggests for your March reading list”The Colorado Sun (Mar 2023)

“Zachary Kocanda Reviews Kevin Maloney’s Novel The Red-Headed Pilgrim”Heavy Feather Review (Mar 2023)

“Writers @ Work features author Kevin Maloney”The Chimes (Feb 2023)

“Kevin Maloney: On Writing with a Day Job, Parenthood, How Twitter Made Him a Better Editor, and His Novel ‘The Red-Headed Pilgrim’”Write or Die Magazine (Feb 2023)

Kevin Maloney: learning to dress up tragedy in fiction and “serve it to the reader in the form of dark comedy”Library of America (Feb 2023)

“Cross-country trek hilarious, heartbreaking”Winnipeg Free Press (Feb 2023)

“Kevin Maloney finally finds himself right where he wants to be”Matter (Feb 2023)

“Author to share ‘sharp wit’ of new novel” The Columbus Dispatch (Feb 2023)

“I Wanted to Write the Book I Would Hand to My 18-Year-Old Self.” Kevin Maloney on Sex as a Spiritual QuestI’m a Writer But Podcast (Jan 2023)

Kevin Maloney’s Playlist for His Novel “The Red-Headed Pilgrim”Largehearted Boy (Jan 2023)

“Episode 83: Kevin Maloney”The Lives of Writers Podcast (Jan 2023)

“Newly Published, From Bottled Wishes to Norman Mailer”The New York Times (Jan 2023)

“Kevin Maloney’s wild ride” – Ryan Bradford, AwkwardSD (Jan 2023)

“Natural Ecstasy” – Mila Jaroniec, Southwest Review (Jan 2023)

“How Kevin Maloney’s ‘half-true’ adventures became ‘The Red-Headed Pilgrim’” – MICHAEL SCHAUB, The Orange County Register (Jan 2023)

“I’M JUST HERE TO NOT GET FINED WITH KEVIN MALONEY” – T.L. States, Words & Sports (Jan 2023)

“The Return of The Red-Headed Pilgrim” – Brock Kingsley, Chicago Review of Books (Jan 2023)

“Bookin’ w/ Kevin Maloney”Bookin’ Podcast (Jan 2023)

“20 of the best books of 2023 (& most anticipated upcoming releases)”Tolstoy Therapy (Jan 2023)

“Otherppl Podcast: Episode 810 w/ Kevin Maloney”Otherppl (Jan 2023)

“Sunday Morning! ‘The Red-Headed Pilgrim’ by Kevin Maloney”Ordinary Times (Jan 2023)

“Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s January 2023 Book Preview”Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Jan 2023)

“Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers” – Teddy Wayne, Lit Hub (Jan 2023)

“Paperback to the Future: Must-Read Paperbacks to Kick Off 2023” – Liberty Hardy, Book Riot (Jan 2023)

“12 Must-Read Books of January 2023”Chicago Review of Books (Jan 2023)

“Review of the Red-Headed Pilgrim” – Jeff Fleischer, Foreword Reviews (Dec 2022)

“Book Review: Kevin Maloney – The Red-Headed Pilgrim” – Benoit Lelievre, Dead End Follies (Dec 2022)

“Me, Myself, and I: Autotruth and Autofiction in The Red-Headed Pilgrim” – D. W. White, 3:AM Magazine (Dec 2022)

“Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin”Poets & Writers (Dec 2022)

“A Largehearted Holiday Playlist” – David Gutowski (Nov 2022)

“Fiction Review: The Red-Headed Pilgrim by Kevin Maloney” – Daniel Marcantuono, Mid-American Review (Sep 2022)

“The Red-Headed Pilgrim”Publishers Weekly (Sep 2022)

“Book Review: The Red-Headed Pilgrim” – Joe Walters, Independent Book Review (Sep 2022)

“A Review of the Red-Headed Pilgrim by Kevin Maloney” – Dmitry Samarov, Neutral Spaces (Aug 2022)

“Q + A with Kevin Maloney about The Red-Headed Pilgrim Radio Waves (May 2022)

“Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 45)”Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Jun 2021)

“Interview and Reading Podcast with Kevin Maloney, by Jim Ruland”Razorcake (Sept 2017)

“Loving a Nightmare”Atticus Review (Jul 2017)

“Visual Interview: Kevin Maloney”Fear No Lit (Oct 2016)

“From the Desk of …Kevin Maloney”Real Pants (Jun 2016)

“Required Reading”Portland Mercury (Dec 2015)

“A Year of Favorites: Tobias Carroll”Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Dec 2015)

“Best Fiction Books of 2015”Powell’s Books Blog (Dec 2015)

“Hello How Are You? I Am Jesse’s 2015 Year In Reading”Jesse Sawyer (Dec 2015)

“Top Ten Favorite Pop Culture Things From This Year”Little Fiction (Dec 2015)

“The 10 Best Books Of 2015 …That I Actually Got Around to Reading”Clash (Dec 2015)

“Books by Suzy Vitello’s Bed”We Wanted to Be Writers (Dec 2015)

“Book Launches, Portland Style”Lit Reactor (Dec 2015)

“Book Review: Kevin Maloney – Cult of Loretta”Dead End Follies (Nov 2015)

“Literary Arts: Portland Writer Kevin Maloney”Eleven PDX (Nov 2015)

“Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney”Peter John McLean (Nov 2015)

“Lazy Fascist author and JSC alum returns to campus”Basement Medicine (Nov 2015)

“Kevin Maloney’s Cult of Loretta”Fourth & Sycamore (Nov 2015)

“From Oregon to Vermont: Indie Writer Kevin Maloney”Johnson State College News (Oct 2015)

“The Best Debut Novels of 2015 So Far”Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Aug 2015)

“Thoughts on ‘Cult of Loretta’ by Kevin Maloney”Josh Spilker: Writing, Books & Creativity (Aug 2015)

“Fiction Points: Kevin Maloney”Points: The Blog of the Alcohol & Drugs History Society (Aug 2015)

“My God This Piece of Shit World Sure is Pretty Sometimes: An Interview with Kevin Maloney”Hobart (Jul 2015)

“Every Love is an Overdose: Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney”Electric Literature (Jul 2015)

“Cult of Loretta (Book Review)”Silencia Blog: Suicide Girls (Jul 2015)

“Short Stories Are My Laboratory: An Interview With Kevin Maloney”Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Jun 2015)

“A Review of Cult of Loretta that is Also an Essay Addressing the ‘Art vs. the Artist’ Debate (and More!)”Hobart (May 2015)

“Portland Turns Surreal in the Trailer for Kevin Maloney’s Cult of Loretta”Vol. 1 Brooklyn (May 2015)