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Why isn’t this site at pagankennedy.com? A few years ago, some carpetbagger bought the rights to that URL and tried to convince me to pay hundreds of dollars for my own name. I managed to discover his whereabouts (in LA) and considered showing up on his doorstep, to find out what kind of person would do such thing. (And, of course, I wanted to write a magazine article about my adventure.) But then I thought better of this scheme. (Fear of Russian mafia kicked in.) Since I couldn’t own the .com site, I bought the rights to pagankennedy.net, and set up shop here. Meanwhile, the guy who was squatting on the .com site eventually gave up on me. The site is now up for grabs. Should I bother to buy it?
Postscript:A reader came to my rescue! One day I received an email from a guy named Rob Eshman, who’d just finished devouring one of my books. “I had to learn more about you, so I went online, found your site– .net???– and quickly bought pagankennedy.com, which I want to transfer to you,” he told me. So thanks to Rob, I am once again master of my own domain.
In a former life, I was a zine publisher, sometimes called the “Zine queen” by chroniclers of that culture. (Really, though, I was hardly the biggest queen on the scene.) When the American Heritage Dictionary created an entry for the word “zine,” the editors saw fit to mention me.
The author of ten books, Pagan Kennedy has won numerous literary prizes. Her publishers include Viking Press, Simon & Schuster, and Bloomsbury.
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Pagan has been a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The NYT Book Review, The Village Voice, Dwell, Details, Ms., Playboy, The Nation, Boston Magazine and The Boston Globe Magazine.
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In 2009, Pagan was Dartmouth College’s visiting writer of nonfiction. She has also taught writing — both fiction and nonfiction — at the Warren Wilson MFA program, Boston College, Johns Hopkins, and many conferences and residencies.
- Fellowship, MIT Knight Science Journalism Foundation
- Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow in creative nonfiction
- Massachusetts Book Award Honor in Nonfiction
- New York Times Notable of 2002
- Barnes & Noble Discover Award
- Smithsonian Fellowship
- shortlisted for the Orange Prize
- Sonora Review Fiction prize
- NEA Fellowship in fiction
Read some articles about Pagan.
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My article about the world of competitive lock-picking made the Top Ten Best Longreads List for 2011.
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How did Lambert M. Surhone have time to edit 100,000 books? Is he a man or a machine? In a New York Times Book Review essay, I explored the strange world of robot-books. - The cyborg in us all
For the New York Times Magazine, I traveled to a hospital where patients are able to play video games with their thoughts. -
“The Joy Lock Club” – My latest feature story for Boston Magazine. -
I just finished a year-long fellowship at MIT for science journalists. It was a life-changing experience, and I am so grateful to the Knight Foundation for putting a powerful new geek-chip in my head.
