Since This Is Memorial Device, David Keenan has carved a singular career as an author unlike any other. Latest novel Boyhood is arguably his best to date Out now via @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social We caught up with @reversediorama.bsky.social Words by Ali Braidwood snackmag.co.uk/david-keenan...

Psyched to announce that I’ll be back at Edinburgh International Book Festival this August to talk about my latest novel, Boyhood. Can’t wait to see everyone x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Belter of a review for Boyhood in the print edition of the Times Literary Supplement. Feels absolutely mental that this could possibly be my seventh novel, but here we are. Big thanks to Nicholas Clee. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

My essay on Apuleius' "The Golden Ass" and David Keenan's "Xstabeth" is now publicly viewable on YouTube! @reversediorama.bsky.social youtu.be/v6AA28Kcft0

Spotted in the wild. Boyhood at John Sandoe Books in London. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Psyched to be a guest on the brilliant Across The Pond podcast and to talk to Lori and Sam about Boyhood. Get it where you get your podcasts or listen via the link below. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/32vj...

Over on my Substack I’ve posted Part One of my Boyhood Tour Diary: Edinburgh Tuesday 7th April 2026. Make sure to subscribe to read further instalments. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social reversediorama.substack.com/p/boyhood-to...

Ghosts, golf, and butt stuff: please listen to me talk about our only novel from ancient Rome, alongside @reversediorama.bsky.social David Keenan's "Xstabeth," an anti-literary literary novel from 2020 that really wants you to think about the *anal* in *analysis.* www.patreon.com/posts/apulei...

Thanks to Alistair Braidwood for the piece on Boyhood in the new issue of @snackmag.bsky.social which you can read on-line or in print wherever you pick up the mag. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social snackmag.co.uk/read-this-mo...

like a fever, sometimes wet, dream turned stream of consciousness this one is special. I was especially unprepared for how bloody funny it is also; 'sniffing records?', reader, I lol'd, nice work @reversediorama.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

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Posties been ❤️📕🎈 Cc @memorialdevice.bsky.social @blackwells.bsky.social @reversediorama.bsky.social

Like most of DK’s books Boyhood has reoriented my brain and I expect it will go back to normal eventually but I’m in no rush tbh.

Another brilliant review for Boyhood, this time in the Times Literary Supplement! Big thanks to Nicholas Clee. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

Tonight! The Boyhood book tour arrives in Manchester! Can’t wait to see everyone x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Spent good chunks of yesterday and today finishing off David Keenan’s latest novel ‘Boyhood’. As with all his novels it’s a work you can and should get completely absorbed in. Might write more about it but for now suffice to say I’m grateful we have him. Thank you @reversediorama.bsky.social

Big thanks to Ian Cusack for the magnificent review of Boyhood 🙏 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social payaso-de-mierda.blogspot.com/2026/05/men-...

Very much looking forward to returning to my favourite literary outpost in Manchester next week for the second phase of the Boyhood tour. Psyched to see everyone x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

@reversediorama.bsky.social Thanks for signing this on Friday in Paisley. Buzzing cos I got Remy, Mary Hanna & Street Hassle to sign it too!! Patrick called me a fanny for asking and the guys he was with (who I think might’ve been some of Sentimental Mercenaries) pissed themselves laughing at that 🤷‍♂️

@reversediorama.bsky.social Hi David, I’m reading Boyhood at the moment and it’s fantastic! You keep surpassing yourself. Incredible.

Oh wow this is just magnificent. As heady, absorbing, unpredictable and uncontainable as always and more forcefully written than ever. I think it’s my favourite @reversediorama.bsky.social book of them all and that’s a very big deal.

And yet another beauty headed my way next week from @reversediorama.bsky.social ❤️

This @reversediorama.bsky.social book's been on the list for a while... need it now to send the skull in a different direction from recent events. It's about as far up my street & down my rabbit hole as you can get... Gonna burrow down 😎😉👍

Phenomenal review of Boyhood over at Bookmunch 🙏 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social bookmunch.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/u...

I’m back in Glasgow tonight for the Boyhood event at Paisley Book Festival! Looking forward to seeing everyone x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social paisleybookfestival.com/programme/da...

@reversediorama.bsky.social reading Industry of Magic & Light while having some Albanian red is definitely THE refined way to ease into a Thursday evening (Wilf though is gubbed)

Wonderful piece on Boyhood in The New World magazine - big thanks to Dale Shaw! @thenewworldmag.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/dale-shaw-th...

A brilliant book, it really is a Precious Gift. Make no bones about it…🙌

Phenomenal review of Boyhood in the print edition of the Literary Review 🙏 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

There it is, finished. Boyhood is everything I wanted and needed. Driven by the unmistable voice and rhythm of @reversediorama.bsky.social it's visionary, sexy, bewildering, joyous and dark. And very, very funny. The answer, in the magic of the moment, is yes.

The new book by @reversediorama.bsky.social is fantastic. I pray & pray in front of my favourite relic for the day when some far out Japanese artist makes it into a manga book and psychedelic cartoon film. It’s also fun for mentally traversing Glesga, too. Recommend!!! @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

I’m in the print edition of the Observer today, talking Boyhood, writing, sex, violence and the redemptive power of the word. @theobserveruk.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Great to see Boyhood on display at my local @waterstones.bsky.social in Islington x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Epic review of Boyhood by Sophie Charara over at Shortlist Magazine! www.shortlist.com/books/new-fi...

The April bookpile. Really enjoyed this month's reading! Some real treasure there, including @zebko.bsky.social and @reversediorama.bsky.social new books. The sooner read, the sooner re-read.

@reversediorama.bsky.social: ‘I want my books to be horny’. The Boyhood author on love songs as great art, writing books to dance to, and resolutely refusing to do his research. ✍️ Interview by Killian Fox https://bit.ly/4u0Wojj

Your boy is profiled in The Observer today. Print edition on Sunday. And yes, I write about sex. What a headline. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

spring reading recommendations - featuring an absolute tour de force from @reversediorama.bsky.social www.shortlist.com/books/new-fi...

Liner Notes 142 lands in your inboxes around 7pm tonight, our latest Limited Edition, a new collaboration with David Keenan. Every order ships in an exclusive tote bag. No general release.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Stand by! 🎯

For my 23rd Magnetic North missive in the 23rd edition of Science & Magic I wrote about this Princes Park Fritillary and the importance of being available for astonishment. This one’s for David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social and you can read it here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

It made me smile to read this from TS Eliot's introduction to Anabasis by St John Perse. It's the perfect way in to Boyhood @reversediorama.bsky.social

Tomorrow night! The Boyhood tour returns to Glasgow with DJ sets from Tia Cousins and Manifesto of Bliss plus live jams from me and Dölphin. At our spiritual home McChuills. Can’t wait to see everyone! @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Just finished the new David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social. As expected it’s a great book with multiple layers, timelines and depths to it. What I didn’t expect was that it’s impossible to put down as there’s always more to be revealed. With 246 short chapters, it’s always, “OK, just one more”.

@reversediorama.bsky.social pulling a Hitchcock on us now. Playing the long game.

“Like taking William Blake on a bender.” Incredible review of Boyhood in @irishtimes.com today! “One of those special books that enter the world still unfolding.” @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

@reversediorama.bsky.social Nicely played, sir. @memorialdevice.bsky.social

“Keenan unfurls a psychedelic post-punk fantasy dense with literary allusions and esoteric lore - not to mention a fierce love for Glasgow.” Another dream review of Boyhood, this time in The Herald 🙏 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

“Keenan’s latest novel confirms his place as one of Scottish literature’s most unfettered imaginations.” Dream review of Boyhood in The Scotsman. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social “This swaggeringly imaginative, polyphonic novel…” www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

The Boyhood tour continues tonight in Margate where I’ll be in conversation with Ryan J.Smith at the Fort Road Bar 7-9pm. Tickets are free and available via Eventbrite. Can’t wait to see everyone! @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social