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...English concentrator who wrote a collection of short stories for his creative thesis, Justin T Keenan ’10 says that E. Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Brokeback Mountain,” has been an influential contemporary writer. He points to Proulx’s short stories, including “The Half-Skinned Steer” and “The Bunchgrass Edge of the World,” as works that showed him the importance of location in fiction...
...Keenan was honored with Harvard’s Edward Eager Fund Prize last year for his short story, “Snow.” The piece is included in Keenan’s collection, “Alive Enough,” whose stories are set in and around his home state, Kentucky. Titled ironically to reflect Keenan’s emotional and physical state at the time of his thesis deadline, “Alive Enough” addresses themes of melancholic family dysfunction and emotional confusion, presented in subtle, but evocative language. Despite the setting...
...Keenan, who transferred to Harvard after freshman year from Transylvania University, has spent his three years at the college steadily developing his writing. He maintains, however, that his environment is not necessarily the most conducive for writing. “I think it is important to remain conscious that you are in a very small world when you are in the Harvard literary scene,” he says...
...don’t mean to say something so banal as ‘be yourself’ or ‘write what you want’,” Keenan continues, “but to write the things that you need to write about or that will move you regardless of whether some people say they are interested in them or not.” Keenan attempts to maintain the style and content of his work despite expectations he has encountered. “I think there is a real disparity between what I think about when...
...says, voicing his intentions to continue seeking publication for his stories in magazines and journals. “It is a shame that so many people here feel that they need to begin a career or begin down a certain path as soon as we graduate,” Keenan says. “But in reality, we are all going to be fine. Everyone needs to chill the fuck...