Daniel Kennedy

Assistant Professor. Notable Best Am. Essays. Work in: @guardian @NERweb, @TheFLReview @NC_Quarterly, @puertomag, @MISTERBULLBULL & more

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

Honored to see my essay included in this year’s Best American Essays Notables list. Thanks to @NERweb for publishing it and to @textplusimage for the editorial guidance.

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

Recently stumbled upon this old drawing I did. Reminds me of how much I used to enjoy drawing and how I’d like to learn proper technique one day.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

https://t.co/5X5KkKalLO
Grateful for real artists like Colson Whitehead. Do yourself a favor and give this a read.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

@writingenjoyer I bought Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead a while ago and have been meaning to read it. Def won’t be doing that now. Thanks for saving me time.

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

Love my team

[Green Bay Packers @packers]

Your AI slop bores us

@ticketmaster

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

One of the realest

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Guillermo Del Toro receives a long standing ovation after the screening of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ at the #CannesFilmFestival and says “fuck AI” in his post-screening speech.

Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux responds, “that was the first political statement of the festival”

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

Precipice of a storm in central-west Texas

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

I wrote this story as a grad student. It’s the first of my stories set in Boston, a city I will always regard as my second home. Thanks to the editors at @GulfStreamLit for publishing my work. Second pub this month, following my story in @puertomag.

https://t.co/Ytkq3l5G4y

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

We went from “the humanities are utterly pointless” to “suddenly, no one can read” in the span of about a year.

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

Many thanks to Brandon Hobson and the editors of Puerto del Sol for giving my latest experiment, "Pale Wings," a home. Structured as a pseudo-YouTube video, the story unfolds in the comments.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Evangeline Lilly has called out Disney for being “disgusting and horrible” after they laid off almost all of Marvel's visual development team.

“SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away.”

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence

Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else https://t.co/LFo7jyh03o

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

You’ve opened those lands to mining and logging and stripped those animals of their habitat protections.

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

@MeghanMcCain You, Meghan, are a moron. Have you seen the movie? Maybe you have and just genuinely align with Bill’s white supremacist views. Unlike you, the film’s hero, Amsterdam Vallon, isn’t cool with the guy who hated his father.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

He is not the good guy in this movie

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump’s EPA has rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals.

He’s pushed to open public lands to drilling and mining.

And he’s gutted clean energy programs while promoting dirty fossil fuels.

He’s a danger to our planet and our health.

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

Three stories accepted in just over a month, including two in the last three days. Not sure if/when this’ll happen again and thus doing my best to savor the moment.

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

@LTGetsPolitical Enjoyed your analysis. I wrote this last year: https://t.co/CFisWK4jhI Check it out if you have the time to read. You might find it interesting.

[Daniel Kennedy @danielkwrites]

Last week, my uni was fortunate to host Colson Whitehead as the keynote author for our annual writers conference. He was wonderful—funny, kind, and full of salient wisdom. It was an honor to conduct my first author interview with one of the best.