David Keenan

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David Keenan


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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 — 1,548 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions
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For the Good Times

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Monument Maker

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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

“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

“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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