M. Allen Cunningham    author, editor, teacher

 Cunningham's New Book is ​Q&A 

 (Regal House Publishing) 

BUY THIS BOOK

cover design: Nathan Shields

An urgent reimagining of the 1950s quiz show scandals ​in light of our own image-driven times.
"Warning: Never use the word genius extravagantly, except when referring to M. Allen Cunningham’s Q&A."
-ROBERT ANTONI, 
​author of As Flies to Whatless Boys and Cut Guavas

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Reviewers & booksellers: request Q&A

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​"A flat-out brilliant book."     
​-LENI ZUMAS, author of Red Clocks

Buy Perpetua's Kin $10

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​"Hilariously irreverent."     
​-The Thoreau Society Bulletin

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​"It offered me energy. We join forces."     
​-JOHN BERGER

BUY partisans NOW $10.17 (40% off)

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"Ingenious, important, inspiring and inspiriting."     
​-CYNTHIA OZICK

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A novel about Rilke.
"A vast monument to the power of the creative spirit." ​-Curled Up With a Good Book

buy lost son $10

"Classic ... The debut of a fully formed, timeless American writer." ​-Square Books, Oxford MS

LISTEN: Cunningham interviewed on Broads & Books (May 2021)

VIEW: Cunningham reads from Q&A

READ/LISTEN: Cunningham's essay about the origins of Q&A: "You, Me, and the Screen Between: An Elegy"

VIEW: Q&A Video Excerpt: In Living Rooms Across America

​VIEW: Q&A Video Excerpt: The Largest Possible Audience

​VIEW: Q&A Trailer

 

Thoreau's Leaves: 


the Thoreau Podcast



hosted by


M. Allen Cunningham
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atmospheric audio


excursions into


the world of Thoreau's work
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In the Atelier:


​A Creativity Podcast





hosted by


M. Allen Cunningham




artfully produced


installments about


 the highs and lows


of making art
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Listen to "M. Allen Cunningham" on Spreaker.

 

Audio Dispatches from M. Allen Cunningham
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readings, teaching, experiments
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​Study creative writing with ​Cunningham



in Vienna, summer 2022!
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4-credit course open to all PSU students 

and non-PSU students alike!



Details HERE.

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The Flickering Page: The Reading



Experience in Digital Times

buy the flickering page $6

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Read M. Allen Cunningham's

Published Essays, Reviews, etc.

On Screen Addiction & Democratic Breakdowns (Medium) 
On Thoreau's unheralded humor (Lit Hub)
On Rilke & the Paris Library (Tin House)
On Solitude & Social Media (Fiction Writers Review)
​On John Berger (Propeller Quarterly)
On Rejection (Poets & Writers)
On Ali Smith, on Julian Barnes, on Ruskin, on Spectacle, on Independent Publishing
& More...

Buy Cunningham's ​Books

Q&A, a hybrid work (2021)
​​Perpetua's Kin, a new novel (2018)
Partisans, a samizdat novel
Lost Son, a novel about Rilke
The Green Age of Asher Witherow, a novel
The Honorable Obscurity Handbook, essays
The Flickering Page, cultural criticism
Date of Disappearance, stories
Funny-Ass Thoreau, humor/scholarship

Hire Cunningham
 

to Teach or Edit

*And study with Cunningham in Vienna!
"I don't think I've ever learned so much in a writing class before."
​-Portland State University student
(more: TEACHING)
​"[He] changed the way I think about my own work and how it lives in the world."
-author Margaret Malone (People Like You)​
(more: EDITING)

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