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David Keenan is an author and critic based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has been a regular contributor to The Wire magazine for the past twenty years. His debut novel, This Is Memorial Device, was published by Faber in 2017.

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	This Is Memorial Device 3.81 avg rating — 1,609 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For the Good Times 3.98 avg rating — 1,155 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground 4.28 avg rating — 890 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Xstabeth 3.36 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Industry of Magic & Light 4.09 avg rating — 121 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monument Maker 3.93 avg rating — 101 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boyhood 4.01 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Towers The Fields The Transmitters 3.65 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th-Century Underground Music 4.15 avg rating — 46 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Run Wild In It: A Handbook of Autonomic Tarot by David Keenan, Sophy Hollington (Illustrator) 3.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We think we’re walking into the future. We fool ourselves! But every last damn one of us is walking straight into the past.”
― David Keenan, This Is Memorial Device

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“X happened then Y appeared.
That’s when it occurred to me, aren’t we all stranded in single moments?
Do we ever experience that between state, the movement between X and Y?Are any of us any the less stranded?
Isn’t every act, every moment, every setting in play an act of blind faith based on limited examples?”
― David Keenan, This Is Memorial Device

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“We invent endings, really, which is what it says to me. There is no resolution, no fixed beginning, no neatly tied-up end. People have tried to read into it so much, but it was just a moment, passing.”
― David Keenan, This Is Memorial Device

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