Kevin Kane’s Substack

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An admittedly self-flagellating exercise exploring the free-range musings of my cobwebbed brain A) while I can still do so and B) in the efforts to monetize this gibberish and C) hopefully entertain YOU, the gracious subscriber.

Genius Unbound delivers true crime, fiction, and more—set free across video, audio, print, and digital.

I write & think about community college, California, race, railroads, athletics... I'm a prof (SJSU, where I run the Steinbeck Fellows Program) and award-winning scribe (Nor-Cal Book Award, National A&E Journalism Award)

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My novels, set in the modern West, are largely drawn from people and events of my education career. Notably, She’s a Lot Like You, was awarded “Best Novel” by the Public Safety Writer’s Association in 2023. I live with my wife Mary in Tucson.

Stranger's Guide explores how politics, power and culture shape daily life across the globe. Featuring unexpected topics, from the complex and controversial to the intimate and beautiful.

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Farmer, Retired Brigadier General, family man. Democrat, Running for Congress against Marjorie Taylor Greene. The people of #GA14 deserve ACTUAL representation.

Analyzing - and revitalizing - Liberal history and theory