Kennedy Ryan

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368 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Fresh Air · Writer Kennedy Ryan uses romance novels as a vehicle for discourse · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

It is what do they learn about themselves and how do they navigate and start to build a life together?

that's going to look different in every book.

So if there are people who just don't want a happy ending, they don't want to know that it's going to end happily, maybe romance is not their bread and butter.

But I think that for people who love romance, and I have a lot of what I call non-romance romance readers, and usually there are people who don't typically read romance, and they'll say something like, I don't read romance novels, but I read Kennedy Ryan.

because they feel like there's something different about the way I'm approaching the genre that appeals to them.

But I can see that if someone doesn't want that aspect of it to be consistent, that maybe that's not the genre for them, or maybe they don't read it as much as others.

The part about the happily ever after that I think is so amazing, especially for black women, for chronically ill women, for women who are in the real world navigating uncertain outcomes, especially the timeline we're living in now.

I am creating a space where you see someone who looks like you get joy and get a happily ever after.

And for some people, they don't get to see that in real life.

And it is encouraging and it's hopeful for them to see it even in fiction.

There are so many women who have told me, I decided to give love a chance again after I read one of your books.

And I'm like, you know, it's fiction, right?

And they're like, yeah, but something about it encouraged me and made me feel like maybe I shouldn't give up on it.

quite yet.

So I think that's good.

I think that giving people hope and joy is, especially in the times we're living, there's not a downside to that for me.

Yeah, I think I, like so many, am fascinated by the Harlem Renaissance.

I think that it's probably like one of the greatest concentrations of American art and specifically Black American art in history.

And just how it really like was incredibly exported and impacted literally the entire world and all culture historically.

you know, jazz and also the blues and our art and our writing and all of the great figures who came out of it, Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston and, you know, all of these incredible writers who emerged during that time period.

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