“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.” ― John Berger One of life’s greatest pleasures is sinking into a work of fiction that takes the reader on an emotional journey through the lives of imaginary characters so believable that there’s a …
Month: September 2019
Michael Harding is an author and playwright. His creative chronicle of ordinary life in the Irish midlands is published as a weekly column in the Irish Times. He has written numerous …
We live in era in which we are constantly watched. Private corporations, led by Google and Facebook, are engaged in a surveillance campaign so pervasive and sustained as to exceed …
Reading makes me happy. When I can combine it with my love for the Great Outdoors, I am positively elated. This entwining of two wonderful things can happen two ways: …
Just when I have the time to jet off to places unknown, it seems that to do so would send my carbon footprint through the stratosphere. Nothing for it but …
I’ve never been one to read a lot of short stories, as I’ve always just preferred novels. I like how novels can go more in depth into characters, and how …
Despite being someone who has to be virtually at death’s door to even contemplate visiting a doctor, I’ve read a fair few medical biographies recently: Brainstorm, Admissions, No Tears Left… …
Leigh Bardugo is already well-established as a writer of teen and young adult fiction. Now she is setting out to take the world of adult fiction by storm with Ninth …
Some people remember where they were when they heard that Kennedy had been shot. I remember where I was when I first read the piece about Mod that opens It …
Lucy Sweeney Byrne is a writer of short stories, essays and poetry. Her work has appeared in Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, Grist, and the anthology Stinging Fly Stories (2018). From Greystones, …
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