Episode 25: James Kennedy

By Christopher Hudgens

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Here James reads from his work-in-progress “The Magnificent Moots,” which he describes as a combination of “The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” “A Wrinkle In Time,” Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game,” the movie “The Royal Tennenbaums,” and the 1970s-1980s TV show Battle of the Network Stars.

James Kennedy is the author of The Order of Odd-Fish (Random House Delacorte Press), a fantastical young adult comedy that was one of the Smithsonian’s Notable Books for Children in 2008.

Booklist praised Odd-Fish as “hilarious . . . readers with a finely tuned sense of the absurd are going to adore the Technicolor ride”.

Time Out Chicago described it as “a work of mischievous imagination and outrageous invention.”

James lives with his wife and daughter in Chicago. You can follow his activities at http://www.jameskennedy.com.