<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <channel>
        <title><![CDATA[@Chris Keil - blog]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
        <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil</link>
        <lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:32:39 +0100</lastBuildDate>
        <atom:link href="http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/feed/blog/chris-keil" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Dylan Thomas Centre - Breaking News - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/4095/dylan-thomas-centre-breaking-news</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/4095</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[ Fabulous Cillian Press launch party (The wine! The glamour! The magic!) for Alan Bilton's stunning new novel The Known and Unknown Sea at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea - 7.00pm Thursday March 13th. Don't even think about not being there!      ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2014 20:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[James Cagney in Carmarthen - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3971/james-cagney-in-carmarthen</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3971</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[ Yeah, but who ratted on him?      ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Pre-order for 2015 - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3856/pre-order-for-2015</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3856</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[The new book is about terrorism, and police-spies and agents provocateurs - an almost out-and-out thriller, but with added metaphysics.]]></description>
                <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 20:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[New review - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3793/new-review</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3793</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[           5.0 out of 5 stars     Just incredibly brilliant ,     By    Bob Ventos "Bob Ventos"  (UK) - See all my reviews       Amazon Verified Purchase  ( What is this? )      This review is from: Flirting at the Funeral (Paperback)   I bought this because I liked the title - but it was a great and surprising find. In fact, it's the best novel I've read in several years. In 1974, young students Morgan and Matty went to Portugal to participate in the revolution, but split up when Matty went off with another man from their commune. Matty married him, stayed in Portugal, and became a minor pop star there, while when the novel opens, Morgan, after various relationships and jobs, is working as a tour-guide. Morgan's friend Howard finds a play set in a similar '74 Portuguese commune, and sends it to him. Morgan meets now-widowed Matty in London and passes the play onto her. Matty in turn passes it onto her early-twenties daughter Luisa, who decides to use it for her film-school project. Matty is being kept by Otto, the super-rich but wheelchair-bound owner of a New-Agey health clinic in Southern Portugal, but wants to regenerate her singing career. Luisa and her film-making friends come over to stay at the expensive clinic, with its pool, haute-cuisine and inscrutable staff, and Otto pays all their expenses. Morgan joins them, then Howard and his sickly wife Anne, and then Dave, the play's author, and still an ardent revolutionary. How long will the charming but sinister Otto keep funding them, and what does he want out of it? The contrapuntal dialogue is smart, the tension builds, the glamour is repeatedly built up and then undercut, the characters are varied, real and often amusing and the philosophical and political issues (has revolution just become another form of nostalgia?) are distinctive and intelligent. It felt like Chekhov. Who is this Chris Keil? Why isn't he famous?          ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Portland 2013 - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3776/portland-2013</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3776</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Thanks to Ceri and Gaabi for brilliant hospitality while we were in Portland - coffee, beer, late night TV, limo'd all over town like rock stars; and to Phil and Mike for excellent company. PSU was fun, as was Wordstock: that Chelsea Cain is something else! I SO nearly missed the plane the morning I left for New York - always a sign of a seriously good time, just a notch below being carried on to the aircraft on a stretcher. Next time.Big love!]]></description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3651/the-obvious-solution</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3651</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
                <pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:44:55 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Right on! Right on! - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3641/right-on-right-on</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3641</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[ The Western Mail is the most radical and politically sophisticated newspaper in the world! Wales at it its best: local, incorruptible, indomitable! Respect! Chapeaux!      ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:01:28 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[WORDSTOCK WORKSHOP - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3591/wordstock-workshop</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3591</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[My creative writing workshop at Wordstock:<br>SEX AND THE SERIOUS NOVEL<br>The workshop will look at the role of the erotic in literary fiction: sometimes moving, sometimes embarrassing, sometimes unintentionally hilarious. Sex is a major part of life; why do so many serious writers have such trouble writing about it?Wordstock Festival, Oregon Convention Center, PortlandSaturday, October 5th]]></description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:17:21 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[FLIRTING IN AMERICA - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3543/flirting-in-america</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3543</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[If you happen to be in the Pacific North West this autumn, come and see me at WORDSTOCK, Oregon Convention Center Portland - October 5th/6th<br>Good times guaranteed!]]></description>
                <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:52:43 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Jon Day on Flirting - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3496/jon-day-on-flirting</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3496</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[  Jon Day writes regularly for the London Review of Books. This is what he had to say about Flirting at the Funeral:     A fine ear for dialogue, with people speaking at cross purposes throughout. And I liked the noir-y flourishes coupled with careful poetic observation. Apposite themes, too, as we descend ever further into the economic gloom. I read Flirting as a dramatisation of the vicissitudes of revolutionary memorialising in all its forms, though theres more here than that of course.    Thanks Jon!      ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:14:59 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Hay Festival again - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3454/hay-festival-again</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3454</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Sorry, Preece. Oops!]]></description>
                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:28:06 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Hay Festival 2013 - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3453/hay-festival-2013</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3453</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[A fabulous day at Hay Festival yesterday. The sun shone down like honey, the event-organisers were so friendly and welcoming, and I had a lovely, attentive audience for my hilarious encounter with Professor Pratt!]]></description>
                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:27:37 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[ETO - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3446/eto</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3446</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[     ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 15:25:31 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Flirting at Hay - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3421/flirting-at-hay</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3421</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[  Really looking forward to being at Hay with FLIRTING AT THE FUNERAL on June 2nd!<br>  http://www.hayfestival.com/p-5822-chris-keil-and-julian-preece.aspx        ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:36:27 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Craggy Island - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3359/craggy-island</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3359</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[  'God Ted - I've just read Flirting at the Funeral, and it's brilliant. It has words and everything!'         ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:47:11 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[NWR and Flirting at the Funeral at Hay - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3358/nwr-and-flirting-at-the-funeral-at-hay</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3358</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[ Check out NWR@HAY!    http://www.  newwelshreview.com/news.php?id=20               ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:31:39 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[London Book Fair - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3342/london-book-fair</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3342</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[  Cillian Press are off to the London Book Fair at Earls Court.<br>                     See you there!         ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:08:28 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Der Untergang - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3339/der-untergang</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3339</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[ Yes!  Probably on a list now...      ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:56:12 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Click on the link! - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3329/click-on-the-link</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3329</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[  Click on the link to buy tickets for my session at Hay. <br> Tell your friends! Tell everyone! Click on the link! Do it now! Do it often!<br>  http://www.hayfestival.com/p-5822-chris-keil-and-julian-preece.aspx       ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:52:10 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Gort 2013 - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3328/gort-2013</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3328</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[ They know how to do book festivals in the west of Ireland  and Guinness  and hot toddies  and music in the bars at night...      ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:40:39 +0100</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Flirting at Hay Festival - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3321/flirting-at-hay-festival</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3321</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[MEMORIES OF REVOLUTION Event 435  Sunday 2 June 2013, 4pm  Venue: Digital Stage]]></description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Look out Gort! - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3306/look-out-gort</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3306</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[     ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Hay Festival - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3271/hay-festival</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3271</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Memories of revolutionChris Keil and Julian Preece in conversation with New Welsh Review editor Gwen Davies.As markets collapse and bankers gorge themselves on bonuses, Chris Keil and Julian Preece look back to the 1970s, when revolution seemed about to change the world.Chris Keils latest novelFlirting at the Funeralis set against a background of global crisis and the power of the super rich; its a narrative haunted by memories of revolution and terror  Portugal in 1974, Germany in 1977  and by the ghostly presence of the Red Army Faction and the Captains of April. Professor Preeces non-fiction titleBaader Meinhof and the novelis a study of the bombings and kidnappings of the German Autumn as reflected in literature, and explores forty years of myths and conspiracy theories around the German terrorist movement. In times of chaos and financial corruption, the powerful resonances between these two books should make for a fascinating and provocative discussion.]]></description>
                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[That is no country for old men - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3260/that-is-no-country-for-old-men</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3260</guid>
                <description><![CDATA["The unpurged images of day recede;<br>the Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed."<br>Flirting at the Funeral and Cillian Press are going to Gort Festival!!]]></description>
                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[New Welsh Review - @chris-keil]]></title>
                <link>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3258/new-welsh-review</link>
                <guid>http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/chris-keil/blog/3258</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[   Storming review of Flirting at the Funeral in NWR99: Keil writes beautifully..... Thank you very much!     http://www.newwelshreview.com/article.php?id=463   ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
            </item>
            </channel>
</rss>