Get to know John Kenney

Hometown

Boston, MA

Fun fact

I worked on the archeological dig of King Herod The Great’s Winter Palace in Jericho. (I can’t be 100 percent sure but I think I found his house keys.)

Favorite author

Impossible question. Names that easily come to mind: Alice McDermott. Don Delillo. Richard Ford. Patty Marx. J.D. Salinger.

Favorite place in the world

Home with the family.

Favorite place to read

The Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library. Although I am no longer let in, as apparently they have a strict policy against nudity.

Books by John Kenney

Sometimes I feel like just going out and, I don’t know, stealing a traffic cone and putting it on my head and saying, ‘Look at me! I’m a giant witch!’

Alan Partridge