Kevin Patrick Mahoney page

Kevin Mahoney is the editor of Authortrek.com, and the author of the novel A Fame of Two Halves.

I was born in Slough in 1972, and where I went to Slough Grammar School (although it was called Upton Grammar then). I Kevin Patrick Mahoney attended Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge for three glorious years (during which the University changed name twice - from AHEC, AP, to APU), where I was a member of Cambridge Student TV and a founding member of the Cambridge Media Group. Returning to Slough, I worked for Ottakars booksellers and became an editorial assistant on Story Cellar magazine. From 1995 to 1997, I attended Thames Valley University (which, unusually, has not changed its name), and was awarded an MA on their excellent Cultural Studies course. In 1998, I began a long stint of working for Amazon.co.uk, where I won the Amazonian Award in 2000, and where I edited their internal newsletter Amazone. In 2002, my essay on Masculinity in Dune, Spartacus, and Lawrence of Arabia was studied at the University of California. I left Amazon in 2005, and now live in Ealing with wife Michelle. My main preoccupation is editing the literary review magazine, Authortrek, portions of which have been reprinted in the US edition of Joanne Harris's Sleep, Pale Sister, and quotations from the site were used on the cover to plug Neal Asher's debut novel, Gridlinked. I also wrote a reading guide for the US edition of Joanne Harris’ novel Gentlemen & Players. I have performed poetry at London's Poetry Cafe, and at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith. From 2006 to 2009, I was the Web Content Editor for the Society of Young Publishers. I’m now the publisher and founder of Punked Books.

Essays

Please bear in mind that most of these essays are over a decade old

The Gangs of New York page

Bram Stoker's Dracula and Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park versus Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Sylvia Plath and the Difficulties of Literary Production

Colonial and Post-Colonial novels contrasted: Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary, She by Rider Haggard, and the Works of Chinua Achebe

Family Relations in William Shakespeare's King Lear

Iago's motivations in William Shakespeare's Othello

Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories

The Enduring Myth of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

A Review of the Sam Mendes production of William Shakespeare's Richard III

The American Civil War had one basic cause: Sectionalism

Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and A Canterbury Tale

The Place of Psychoanalysis in Cultural Studies

John Redmond's Career in Irish Politics

Martin Luther King and the American Civil Rights Movement

Frank Capra, the American Dream, and It's a Wonderful Life

Could the North or the South have averted the American Civil War?

The Spanish-Cuban-American War

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