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Fragments shored against my ruin: @harmlessfraud takes a look at Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture
http://bit.ly/SnaIg #
Censoring an Iranian Love Story
http://bit.ly/2MbWzZ #
Ha Jin talks about the mother of all mother-in-law stories http://bit.ly/ZD1k3 RT @GrantaMag #
Wallace had less in common with Eggers and Franzen than he did with Dostoevsky and Joyce
http://bit.ly/pbaRb #
Fifty-Two Stories is the @canongatebooks [...]

- Metempsychosis, he said, frowning. It’s Greek: from the Greek. That means the transmigration of souls. #
- O, rocks! she said. Tell us in plain words. #
9:15AM; “Kingstown pier,” Stephen said. “Yes, a disappointed bridge.” RT @UlyssesSeen #
A good introduction to Joyce’s Ulysses, from the TMO archives, for Bloomsday
http://bit.ly/G6MW5 #
Bloomin’ Marvellous - James Joyce and [...]

It’s June, so breaking a New Year’s resolution I return again to blog briefly about a book that I’ve just started - Deirdre Madden’s Remembering Light and Stone. I couldn’t resist because of this wonderful passage on Italy - tying in nicely with BB Scimmia’s post of some time ago on Imagining Italy
Madden’s narrator [...]

Samuel Beckett’s Postmodern Fictions - an essay by Brian Finneyhttp://bit.ly/10eWnh #
Sean O’Casey - Portrait of the Artist as an Outsiderhttp://bit.ly/5BKLG #
Dublin author Trevor Byrne interviewed about his debut novel Ghosts and Lightninghttp://bit.ly/sVF2r #
Cormac McCarthy’s Paradox of choicehttp://bit.ly/RTmPU #
From the TMO archives - Nadeem Aslam, writing against terrorhttp://bit.ly/kmHiA #
Laila Lalami on the writer as self-critichttp://bit.ly/pgWP7 #
Five [...]

Kate Atkinson would, money permitting, prefer to write and not be published
http://bit.ly/18nBaC #
Stuart Evers is allergic to AS Byatt
http://bit.ly/B8CeI #
Revisioning ‘The Great Gatsby’, an essay by Susan Bell (via the elegant variation)
http://bit.ly/CxZiX #
From the Hay festival audio archive -John Mullan & how the novel works
http://bit.ly/rTy0y #
Eduardo Galeano interview on the Open Veins of Latin [...]