RUNAWAY by Erin Keane is out in paperback
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2022 — now in paperback!
“Memoirs this smart and absorbing don’t come around all the time.” — Michael Schaub, NPR
“[A] deeply felt family memoir that also functions as an exegesis of our social texts.” — Lorraine Berry, The LA Times
“A dazzling page-turner of a book” — Kenneth Womack, Culture Sonar
“[T]hese essays … enrich the growing body of work reexamining perceptions about art, artists, the past, and what matters.” — Booklist, starred review
“A razor-sharp investigative memoir with a biting edge.” — Autofocus
“This eagle-eyed inquiry hits the mark.” — Publishers Weekly
“Keane’s prose soars, and her journalistic instincts shine.” — Kirkus Reviews
Featured in:
- Selected for NPR’s Best Books of 2022
- Reviewed in the LA Times: “A runaway’s daughter dismantles the fairy tale of the rescuer and his muse“
- Featured in Largehearted Boy’s Book Notes playlist series
- Excerpted in LitHub: “What Woody Allen’s Manhattan Tells Us About Society’s Relationship With Powerful Men” (also featured in Memoir Monday)
- Interviewed in The Cut: “Untangling the Secrets of a Teenage Mother“
- Excerpted in Salon: “A girl’s skeleton in the museum: On runaways, the Jersey Shore and a cold case that haunted me“
- Interviewed in Autofocus: “The Myths That Made Me” and WFPL/Louisville Public Media
- Reviewed in Booklist (starred), Culture Sonar, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly , LEO, and Still: The Journal
- Podcast Guest: “The Perks of Being a Book Lover” (Listen to the Episode)
- Podcast Guest: “New Books in Film,” part of the New Books Network (Listen to the Episode)
- Featured in the LitHub Author Questionnaire: “5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers“
- Selected for The Millions’ Most Anticipated
- Selected for LA Times’ 30 Books We Can’t Wait for This Fall
- Selected for The OC Register fall reading list
- Selected for Garden & Gun’s The Southerner’s Big Fall Reading List
- Selected for the Avalon Free Public Library’s Best New Books
RUNAWAY: Notes on the Myths That Made Me, my debut full-length nonfiction book, is out now: A memoir (“a lyrical, sharp feminist analysis,” says Kirkus Reviews) about my parents/pop culture/gender.
If you need me, I can be found at erin e keane @ gmail or on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky
SIGN UP for It Just Doesn’t Matter: A Newsletter About Things That Do
In honor of the greatest movie monologue of all time: Sign up here.
