Brendan Kiely Archive

Is it summer yet? Well, it’s almost there since I’m off to YALLWest this weekend! I’ll be hanging with The Novel Strumpet and a couple thousand readers at the annual book fest in Santa Monica. I’ll report on all the fun shortly, but here’s my latest quick

The world is a huge rainbow of humanity and this is slowly being represented in our arts. Real slow if you look at this year’s Oscars which strove for greater diversity, but then included racist Asian jokes and ignored others all together. So, yes, diversity sucks in