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	zine_queen-alt1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The essays sandwiched between the 'zines are written by a Pagan in a post-'zine phase, a little astonished at the hold 'zine-making had on her.
		Reading Pagan Kennedy's book of 'zines will not definitively answer such questions, but it will make you feel you are part of 'zine nation and that you have joined in the nearly irresistible prank 'zines play on mass media, high art, consumer culture - and the notion of the artist as an isolated, tormented soul.
		Pagan Kennedy, now 33, is the author of Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s (St. Martin's, 1994), Stripping and Other Stories (Serpent's Tail, 1994), and the novel Spinsters (Serpent's Tail, 1995).
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/11-95/zine.html (1172 words)

	Books: Estranged New World (The Boston Phoenix . 07-06-98)
		Kennedy -- who admits to having once been in a cheesy rock band herself -- is clearly familiar with her material.
		Kennedy weaves all the clashing and cavorting into a four-part narrative in which each band member gets an opportunity to present things from his or her perspective -- a solo, as it were.
		Kennedy handles this web of conflict with skill and subtlety, clarifying things for the readers while leaving her characters fumbling in the dark.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-06-98/boston_books_3.html (564 words)

	Pagan Kennedy in conversation with Noel King
		Pagan Kennedy: I live in Somerville, a rock and roll, Vietnamese, student neighbourhood part of Boston, and I was born in Maryland.
		Pagan Kennedy: I wanted the South because I stayed with relatives in Norfolk, Virginia and as a kid there was this whole thing of weird decrepit old women living in old houses, and I loved that setting.
		Pagan Kennedy: I'm doing a non-fiction book for Viking Press, about a fl American missionary who went to the Belgian Congo at the turn of the century and found his way into a forbidden city where he was "recognized" as the reincarnation of their king.
	jacketmagazine.com /08/king-iv-kenn.html (4646 words)

	Amazon.com: Zine: How I Spent Six Years of My Life in the Underground and Finally...Found Myself...I Think: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pagan Kennedy is to be commended for not only creating the eight issues of Pagan's Head but for having the courage and the insight to tell the truth behind the words.
		Kennedy can be a good writer and artist; it's just that when her only subject is herself, and she rarely does anything interesting, it's very hard to give a hoot.
		Pagan Kennedy took me through both carefree and frightening times in her life, and all was done through an authentic reprinting of her ZINE, an endeavor she undertook several years ago.
	www.amazon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312136285/suckahs-20 (2093 words)

	Eye Weekly - BOOKS: A true Pagan - 07.28.94
		Kennedy, a survivor of '70s suburbia, owner of a '74 Plymouth Valiant and curator of 8-track tapes, couldn't understand why the decade she grew up in wasn't taken seriously or given any historical credibility.
		So, being the pop culture critic she is, Kennedy now serves up Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle Of The 1970s, her spin on what life was really like during the decade that defies all definitions.
		Kennedy has not only given us a fine collection of characters, but also a context to put them into: Platforms and Stripping, to say the least, are a pretty cool combo.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.28.94/ARTS/bo0728a.php (677 words)

	Kennedy / Turner
		Phipps and Kennedy also carefully reconstruct the story of Sheppard's growing realization of the violent means the Belgian state was using to force native peoples to harvest obscene amounts of rubber, and they describe the publicity campaign he and Morrison waged against Belgian atrocities.
		Kennedy, who has made her reputation as a novelist, does not neglect the historical record, but she enlivens her narrative with considerable speculation into the emotions and motivations of Sheppard and other figures.
		Kennedy concludes that "he was far more interested in saving bodies than souls." (43) While Sheppard himself certainly loved styling himself as the quintessential explorer, Kennedy goes too far in neglecting his religious sensibilities.
	northstar.vassar.edu /volume6/kennedy_phipps.html (1218 words)

	Amazon.com: The Exes: Books: Pagan Kennedy (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pagan Kennedy is one of those occasionally maligned writers who makes their home in the narrow purgatory between serious literature and pop kitsch.
		Kennedy has always captured this quite well, because she goes beyond the pretension of pose and trying to make a name for yourself to instead portray a world where people try to find an identity and assert who they are.
		kennedy is an artist and she creates a masterpiece of language everytime she decides to use a pen.
	www.amazon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Exes-Novel-Pagan-Kennedy/dp/0684854422 (2780 words)

	<I>Black Livingstone</I> Author Finds Unexpected Link
		Pagan Kennedy, the author of Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo (Viking, 2002), first heard about William Sheppard and his colorful life a decade ago from a neighbor who was writing a book in which he made a passing reference to Sheppard.
		Kennedy, a 39-year-old writer in Somerville, Massachusetts, said she became "obsessed" with finding out more about the little-known missionary and his heroic life: "It was my strange little project for many years.
		Kennedy saw the need for one but, as a fiction writer and a white woman, she shrank from the prospect of writing it.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/03/0301_0301_livingsidebar1.html (533 words)

	"Zine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For six years she put out a 'zine, Pagan's Head, in which she addressed the subject of the creative struggle between the desire to express oneself and the desire to gain notoriety within the publishing world.
		When Pagan's Head was in full swing Kennedy was a struggling writer, barely making a living through freelance copyediting work, occasional articles in the Nation and theVillage Voice and pushing her way through graduate school at Johns Hopkins University for fiction.
		Pagan's Head was all about Kennedy: her hair, her boyfriend, her trips to obscure cities, her friends.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1996/053096/_zine___53096.html (495 words)

	Alibris: Pagan
		In this revised edition of "The Pagan Book of Days" the author provides details on auspicious and inauspicious days, holy days of the ancient gods and goddesses, and the eight stations of the year (the solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days).
		Published to coincide with the Pagan holiday Samhain on October 31st, this new title by the author of Love Magic and Power of the Witch will appeal to spiritualists and environmentalists alike as it celebrates the eight holidays in the Pagan tradition.
		Raised at her family's commune in the Adirondack wilderness, Perks pens a wrenching and beautiful memoir of an unorthodox childhood and her wildly eccentric father, a self-proclaimed pagan intent on demolishing conventional boundaries and morality.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Pagan (1192 words)

	WAG: Pagan Kennedy's Black Livingstone
		As Kennedy observes, in the late nineteenth century, Africa was a largely unknown place upon which a boy's fantasies could be projected and which dealt adventurous souls more dangers than they might have expected.
		As Kennedy observes, Morrison sought the attention of parliaments and newspapers, while Sheppard preferred to ignore the Congo Free State and instead "create a town--and an entire reality--where hatred did not exist." Inevitably, Sheppard became an anachronistic figure, and his twenty years in the Congo ended without his accomplishments being duly acknowledged by the Church.
		Kennedy's fascination with Sheppard's story and her affection for him as a dynamic, complicated figure are apparent--and infectious.
	www.thewag.net /books/kennedy.htm (1239 words)

	Pagan Summary
		The city of Pagan (also spelled Bagan), the first capital of the Burman kings, is situated in central Burma (now Myanmar) in a sharp bend of the Irrawaddy River.
		Pagan was founded in 849 BCE and became the capital of the Pagan dynasty (1044–1300) under King Anawrahta (1044–1077), during whose reign most construction took place.
		Pagan achieved its power by combining Burman military might, Mon architectual and artisan skills, and Indian Brahman political influence and by consolidating Theravada Buddhism with indigenous nat (spirit) worship.
	www.bookrags.com /Pagan (350 words)

	Amazon.com: Spinsters (High Risk Books): Books: Pagan Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hero to millions of over-educated hipsters, Pagan Kennedy has produced zines, short stories, a semi-autobiography, and this novel, a tiny gem that disappoints only because it is too short.
		Kennedy weaves political and personal history together in her extremely fluid prose, producing a work that is swift and moving, leaving the reader wanting more.
		Kennedy's use of the book's time frame, 1968, was pulled off nicely, as she didn't overdo it.
	www.amazon.com /Spinsters-Risk-Books-Pagan-Kennedy/dp/1852424052 (1559 words)

	Pagan Kennedy
		To most Christians, these words, written by evangelical leader D. James Kennedy, are a call to lead a life in imitation of Christ, to be a living witness to...
		Pagan Kennedy is an author and pioneer of the '90s zine movement, along with writer/publishers like Lisa Crystal Carver of Rollerderby, Jim Goad of ANSWER Me and Larry Crane of Tape Op.
		Her autobiographical zine Pagan's Head detailed her life in extraordinary detail.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/p/pa/pagan_kennedy.html (102 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Pagan Kennedy
		Kennedy knows her subject--after all, she first rocketed to Gen-X glory by publishing her quirky but deeply hip personal 'zine, Pagan.
		In Exes, she deftly captures the feel of the punk rock scene with allusions to great bands gone bad and the sights and smells of it all (the heady odor of a freshly unwrapped CD is compared to "sugar dissolved in brake fluid" and "an acid trip coming on").
		Shazia proves to be by far the most interesting Ex, as she works to conceal her religious origins from the rest of the band and obscure her own intriguing reasons for not wanting to be famous.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/07.23.98/lit-kennedy-9829.html (696 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pagan Kennedy has made a career out of encapsulating ironic/alternative culture and selling it back to people who don't know any better, hence her books Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s, 'Zine and Pagan Kennedy's Living.
		The book is divided into four sections, each told from the perspective of one of the characters: Hank, the self-important scenester; his ex-girlfriend, Lilly; the screwed-up drama queen Shaz, the talented bisexual girl bass player; and Shaz's ex-boyfriend, Walt, the grad-school dropout recovering from a nervous breakdown.
		With the exception of Hank, all the characters are quite likable, and though Kennedy is a bit too impressed with her hipster milieu, there are worse ways to kill a couple hours.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/07.13.98/books-9826.html (305 words)

	The ageingly hip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But out of all the self-conscious, margin-doodling, net-surfing writers to emerge over the last decade, Kennedy's always had my vote as the one most likely to have serious insight.
		But this is the kind of book that people may start out reading with the hope of becoming mature, only to discover that in a lot of ways they already are.
		Pagan Kennedy's Living: The Handbook for Maturing Hipsters, by Pagan Kennedy.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/091197/books.html (483 words)

	Zine Queen Pagan Kennedy
		Pagan's Head (as the magazine came to be known) was just a little Xeroxed, stapled-together thing that I handed out to friends and acquaintances - but it changed my life.
		Kennedy is also a fiction writer and critic.
		Kennedy's cultural criticism book, Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 70s is now out of print, but most used book stores (such as Powell's on the Net) can find you a copy.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3990/21300 (377 words)

	4.01: Zine Queen (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"We are all endlessly unfolding fanzines," writes Pagan Kennedy in her new book, 'Zine (St. Martins Press), a collection of the zines she produced in the '80s and early '90s.
		Through her own zine, Pagan's Head, and her Village Voice column, Pagan Kennedy became one of the form's best known proponents.
		Harvey Blume met Kennedy at her apartment in Allston, Massachusetts - Boston's "punk rock suburb," the one with the "beautiful turnpike" running through it, as Pagan's Head puts it - to browse webzines and talk about changes in the things we read.
	www.wired.com.cob-web.org:8888 /wired/archive/4.01/kennedy_pr.html (1000 words)

	Short Takes - The Boston Globe
		Confessions of a Memory Eater By Pagan Kennedy Leapfrog, 248 pp., $14.95 For a writer who arrives preceded by a super-cool underground reputation (one reviewer hailed her as ``Queen of the 'Zines"), Pagan Kennedy has produced a strangely subdued, even (gasp!) conventional novel in ``Confessions of a Memory Eater."
		For a writer who arrives preceded by a super-cool underground reputation (one reviewer hailed her as ``Queen of the 'Zines"), Pagan Kennedy has produced a strangely subdued, even (gasp!) conventional novel in ``Confessions of a Memory Eater."
		In Win, Kennedy creates a persuasive, which is not to say sympathetic, modern male protagonist in the throes of a midlife crisis.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/07/30/short_takes_boston_globe (503 words)

	Nedward.org // Pagan's Head, from Pop-Fiction to Pop-Biography
		The Times has a nearly glowing review of Pagan Kennedy's new book, a historical biography of the African-American missionary William Henry Sheppard.
		Kennedy used to write this silly 'zine' called Pagan's Head in the 80s, from a crappy little house on Farrington Street, in my neighborhood.
		666 and I swapped books by Pagan Kennedy, and I always found her writing quirky and fun.
	nedward.org /archives/000718.php (105 words)

	AlterNet: The Exes
		Pagan Kennedy's new novel, "The Exes," chronicles the tumultuous love affairs of an underground indie band on their rise to stardom.
		Shazia is by far the most interesting Ex, the way she shrouds her religious origins from the rest of the band and has her own reasons for not wanting to be famous.
		Kennedy captures the mood for sure, but leaves a reader wishing she got more for her money.
	www.alternet.org /story/3123 (658 words)

	Memories of you - Arts - The Phoenix
		Pagan Kennedy, Somerville writer and ex-zinester, offers her own take on this urge to re-experience the past in her latest novel, Confessions of a Memory Eater.
		Kennedy leaves the question open as to whether that’s a miraculous thing or an insidious one.
		The pornography of pharmacology: Pagan Kennedy on drugs, memory, and the lure of nostalgia.
	www.thephoenix.com /article_ektid16090.aspx (873 words)

	Wired 4.01: Zine Queen
		Pagan Kennedy on zines in the age of Web.
		I used to hand people in Boston Pagan's Head - I wouldn't send it - and even though I handed it to only a few friends, it got around in magical ways.
		People put it in their bathrooms, and when their friends came over, they'd sit on the can and read about this Pagan chick.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.01/kennedy.html (683 words)

	Books: Speed Reader (Weekly Alibi . 07-27-98)
		Pagan Kennedy's fresh and witty descriptions give life to an otherwise shoddy group whose ride to repulsive glory is firmly set in reality: dingy clubs, unappreciative audiences and an occasional sleaze promising stardom.
		Although Kennedy is a talented writer, the scenarios in this novel have been worn by nearly every rock star's autobiography.
		If she is, as the back cover proclaims, the voice of this generation, it is no wonder older generations view us with contempt.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-27-98/alibi_speeder.html (636 words)

	From Today: Participants
		A number of years ago, she and Pagan Kennedy formed the Anti-ad Agency, a collective of filmmakers, writers and artists who collaborate with non-profits to produce 30 second spots which lampoon commercials.
		Her most recent, to be released by Viking Press in 2001, tells the true story of William Sheppard, a fl American missionary who became the first Westerner to enter the "forbidden city" of the Kuba people in the Congo.
		One of Pagan's novels, The Exes, was optioned by MTV films and may be out on TV this year; another novel, Spinsters, was short-listed for the Orange Prize, Britian's highest-paying literary award.
	www.stg.brown.edu /conferences/fromtoday/participants.html (2117 words)

	scot hacker’s foobar blog » Rock. It. Man.
		In 1992, I moved to Boston to become Pagan Kennedy’s pre-arranged husband.
		Fun while it lasted, but, in retrospect, doomed to failure (I should have known in advance when she sent me a letter with a bug squished on the page, circled in pen and labeled with my name).
		Anyway, Pagan had her own TV show on local cable access, and one particularly amazing episode was themed around William Shatner’s delicious 1978 reinterpretation of Elton John’s “Rocket Man” at the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards.
	birdhouse.org /blog/2006/01/25/rock-it-man (543 words)

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	The Recycled Pagan Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		" In her absorbing and timely novel, Pagan Kennedy explores love, addiction, and memory in the pharmaceutical age.
		"Kennedy resists the temptation to inflict a politically correct paradigm on her story and simply lets it tell itself...
		"Pagan Kennedy, queen of the zines, writes with a sweet, trenchant wit and the delicacy of a modern-day Chekov."
	home.comcast.net /~pagankennedy (391 words)

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