Press
“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 Quest – I’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)