'Writing is what I am' – interview with booker shortlisted Damon Galgut http://bit.ly/dlzfAG # james wood on Emma Donoghue's booker shortlisted 'Room' – http://bit.ly/cYZ5B6 # logic is that the novel can lure Americans away from their media and entertainment buffet only by becoming more social http://bit.ly/aN5Jh4 # RT @samjordison Not the Booker prize: and the […]
is gangsta rap basically Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, only with phat beatz instead of fat Geats? http://bit.ly/aHbUPS # RT @john_self "Every year, 70 readers die and two are replaced. The novel has no audience." – Philip Roth # Are Dublin's literary connections just accidents of birth? http://bit.ly/9EmfxR # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Brand Ireland – Irish novelist ready to 'do the state some service' http://bit.ly/dygwZJ # Just read, and greatly enjoyed, the first chapter of 'The Frozen Rabbi' by Steve Stern – read it here http://bit.ly/cAJZPA # Great interview with David Grossman in the UK Observer – http://bit.ly/aZWNfl # José Saramago – an appreciation http://bit.ly/colWYx (please rt) […]
Class in the novel – There is an un-American secret at the heart of American culture http://bit.ly/aQiWrh # Powered by Twitter Tools.
On Tiredness and Peter Handke – interesting post by This Space http://bit.ly/a5CLLl # How to write a novel about consciousness, death, fatherhood and narrative? Invent a chicken-boy! http://bit.ly/cKHBVA # TheAsylum reviews Emma Donnoghue's Man Booker Longlisted Room – http://bit.ly/cBsa9f # Is European fiction really dry and academic? http://gu.com/p/2j3p4/tw # Beyond the shelves of genre – […]
So, you want to write a thought-provoking novel about consciousness, death, fatherhood and the role of narrative in our lives? What’s the best way to do it? A stereotypical gothic mansion turned into a health clinic run by a mad scientist doesn’t sound like a promising start. A split universe setting whose hero is chick, […]
Great essay on David Foster Wallace, by Wyatt Mason (NYRB) – http://bit.ly/anS07v # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Booker prize longlist announced – http://bit.ly/b9nTEk # Reading Amis & McEwan – leaves me feeling that I and the world have been made smaller and meaner – Josipovici http://bit.ly/d3JlWZ # Powered by Twitter Tools.
They Kill Us for Sport – Lear, Happy Endings, and Niccolò Ammaniti's The Crossroads http://bit.ly/cJ6GTk # Powered by Twitter Tools.
I think only people who dislike a genre should be allowed to write in it – Joseph O'Connor interviewed by Peter Murphy http://bit.ly/9OQ6yj # If you're on facebook, try following Dublin's Project Arts Centre here http://bit.ly/c0odDL # Powered by Twitter Tools.
