![]() My wife was the publicist, my students were on the cover … There was very little fiction being published here then, so it got reviewed in all the papers The whole shebang would cost about the same as a second-hand car. I drove the guy in the next room demented as I replayed an old tape … It’s so much easier with iTunes Doyle has always been candid in calling out the bullshit when he smells it, and he’s at it again in places here, while there are also fascinating recollections of The Commitments’ creative… ![]() It’s Freyne’s interview that prompts this blog. There’s a full-page excerpt from Julian Gough’s recently published Kindle Single Crash! How I Lost a Hundred Billion and Found True Love, honorary Irish writer Molly McCloskey reviews a new book of essays on artists and writers by Janet Malcolm, Gabriel Byrne reviews Roddy Doyle’s new novel The Guts and there’s an extensive interview with Doyle himself by Patrick Freyne. For anyone interested in Irish writing, today’s Irish Times is a hell of an investment. ![]()
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