A conversation with Kevin P. Keating

Name: A conversation with Kevin P. Keating
Start: 2025-10-11T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-11T15:30:00-04:00
Location: 1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121

Schedule

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121 | South Euclid, OH

Join us at our South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch for a conversation with Kevin P. Keating, author of "Bridge of Dreams: A Speculative Triptych."
Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/14380912
After working in the steel mills of Cleveland, Keating became an instructor of English at several colleges and universities. His short stories and essays have appeared in nearly one hundred literary journals. His first novel "The Natural Order of Things" was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. His second novel "The Captive Condition" was a Publishers Weekly pick of the week (starred review) and was featured at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con. He is the recipient of several literary awards, including the Cleveland Arts Prize, the James Thurber House Award, and a Creative Workforce Fellowship.
"Bridge of Dreams: A Speculative Triptych," is a set of three linked reincarnation stories set in Ohio in 1857, 1957, and 2057 centered around a young woman who embarks upon a spiritual quest over the span of three different lifetimes. The novel has been praised as "top philosophy disguised as gripping fiction" by Bernardo Kastrup, the Dutch philosopher, computer scientist, and founder of the Essentia Foundation. Keating will share an entertaining overview of space exploration, including how his novel fits into that history.
In the first story, "Gwendolyn Greene and the Moondog Coronation Ball of 1957," the Soviets are preparing to launch a dog into orbit. The Americans, in an attempt to stay competitive in the space race, select a remarkably intelligent dog owned by a 14-year-old girl from rural Ohio. But only Gwendolyn can explain the mystery behind her beloved canine's extraordinary gifts.
"Hilda Whitby and the Heavenly Light of 1857" takes place in an Ohio frontier town and concerns the trials and tribulations of a brilliant female chemist who has just lost her son to a devastating explosion. Wanted for questioning by authorities, Hilda travels along the Erie Canal, meeting an assortment of curious characters until one fateful night when she faces a strange destiny inside a cave.
In "IMPETUS 13 and the Constitutional Crisis of 2057," a timid college student and an assertive professor of creative writing set out on a road trip only to discover what appears to be a flying saucer stranded deep in a remote canyon.
📕 Books will be available for purchase, courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.