I’m always a little scared before going to New York. That’s why I haven’t been back much since leaving a good few years back. I imagine it’s akin to an especially seductive drug that you don’t want to...
06.24.2022 Smh.com.auIt was bliss to be back at the Dalkey Book Festival last weekend, where I talked about the joy of swimming with Bressie, drank champagne with John Banville, discussed books with a bunch of talented wr...
06.26.2022 Independent.ieOpinion By Stefano Hatfield i columnist at 80, Paul McCartney became the oldest Glastonbury headliner on Saturday night (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP) Do you know what’s No 1 in the charts? Did it...
06.26.2022 Inews.co.uk and 1 sitesGeoff Dyer (Photo: Guy Drayton) By Nick Duerden There is precious little tennis discussed in Geoff Dyer’s new book, The Last Days of Roger Federer, but then of course there isn’t; seasoned Dyer reader...
06.25.2022 Newsexplorer.netIn a video shared on Twitter, Ruth Ozeki claimed that she won the 2022 Women''s Prize for Fiction. The 66-year-old American-Canadian author and filmmaker has published four novels since her first public appearance in 1998, and has known to be the first ever Zen Buddhist priest to be selected for the Man Booker prize back in 2013. Ozeki was chosen as the winner of the Women''s Prize for Fiction by Elif Shafak, the American author and poet Louise Erdrich, and the author of Trinidad and Antoni, acc...
06.23.2022 List23.comOn a Friday morning in March 2020, I entered a secondary school for the first time since I had left for university. I was there for an interview. The opening was for a tutor, not a teacher: instead of...
06.28.2022 Unherd.com© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: David Hartley/REX/Shutterstock Ruth Ozeki’s fourth novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, has won the Women’s prize for fiction. The novelist, filmmaker and Zen ...
06.23.2022 Newsexplorer.netGet ready for a jam-packed week of events says Eimear O’Herlihy, festival director What can people expect from this year’s festival? From July 8th-15th people can expect a real feeling of celebration ...
06.28.2022 Southernstar.ieAlmost a decade ago, Lia Newman picked up Zadie Smith’s debut novel, “White Teeth. ” The British author’s book had come out in 2000 to much acclaim. The New York Times said the “ satirical, multigener...
06.23.2022 Charlotteobserver.comNowadays it seems any writer of literary fiction must have some opinion on the economic organization of society under “late-stage capitalism, ” and yet it’s rare to see an honest treatment of work or money in their fiction. Not to pick on her too muc...
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