Kevin Mims

62 Posts

Kevin Mims is a freelance writer living in Sacramento, CA. His work has appeared in the New York Times, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Salon, and others.

Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel

Kevin Mims 5 May 2022 · 26 min read

The Western Reinvented. Again.

Kevin Mims 25 Mar 2022 · 9 min read

Heading Into the Atom Age—Pat Frank’s Perpetually Relevant Novels

Kevin Mims 22 Mar 2022 · 11 min read

Authentic Immediacy—A Tribute to the Political Fiction of Frederick Forsyth

Kevin Mims 18 Feb 2022 · 13 min read

Dominick Dunne, Writer of Wrongs

Kevin Mims 11 Dec 2021 · 14 min read

How D.B. Cooper and the Golden Age of Air Piracy Changed Aviation Fiction

Kevin Mims 24 Nov 2021 · 33 min read

High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism—A Review

Kevin Mims 11 Nov 2021 · 25 min read

Bad News—A Review

Kevin Mims 25 Oct 2021 · 20 min read

In Praise of the Novelization—Pop Fiction's Least Reputable Genre

Kevin Mims 28 Jun 2021 · 20 min read

Remembering John Ball, the Writer Who Gave Us Virgil Tibbs

Kevin Mims 27 Apr 2021 · 20 min read

Before 'Groundhog Day': The Time-Loop Novel that Started It All

Kevin Mims 18 Mar 2021 · 11 min read

Beating Up Boomer

Kevin Mims 20 Jan 2021 · 16 min read

Ray Russell's Incubus: A Lost Gem from America's Twentieth Decade

Kevin Mims 13 Jan 2021 · 15 min read

Journalism's Ivory Towers

Kevin Mims 15 Dec 2020 · 10 min read

The Hustler and the Queen

Kevin Mims 4 Dec 2020 · 14 min read