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.

Farewell, Alex Trebek

Kevin Mims 13 Nov 2020 · 14 min read

Corruption and Remorse—The Novels of a Watergate Conspirator

Kevin Mims 17 Sep 2020 · 19 min read

Barney Rosset and the Unending Struggle to Read Freely

Kevin Mims 6 May 2020 · 22 min read

Warehouse Work in an Age of Contagion

Kevin Mims 30 Mar 2020 · 6 min read

The Decline of the Great American Family Saga

Kevin Mims 28 Feb 2020 · 13 min read

The National Book Foundation Defines Diversity Down

Kevin Mims 7 Jan 2020 · 11 min read

'White Christmas' and the Triumphs of the Greatest Generation

Kevin Mims 20 Dec 2019 · 11 min read

In Praise of Sylvia Plath's Forgotten (Sorority) Sister

Kevin Mims 28 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

'Cancel Culture,' Roaring Twenties-Style

Kevin Mims 27 Sep 2019 · 12 min read

William Peter Blatty's Counter-Countercultural Parable

Kevin Mims 13 Sep 2019 · 13 min read

How (and Why) to KISSASS

Kevin Mims 6 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

Tourist Journalism Versus the Working Class

Kevin Mims 19 Jul 2019 · 17 min read

Pop Fiction's Rich History of #MeToo Drama

Kevin Mims 19 Jun 2019 · 12 min read

Goodbye, Herman Wouk

Kevin Mims 18 May 2019 · 8 min read

Banned Books Week: 10 Pop Fictions to Annoy the Politically Correct

Kevin Mims 26 Sep 2018 · 15 min read