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In reply to fancypaperblog. It is a stretch. In lots of ways, the best...

https://irishwritingblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/comic-writing-is-the-real-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-2492

I find new literature that is truly funny very hard to find.

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Thanks for your excellent review. This is a superb novel. And I have seen the film today and loved that too. I am just writing a blog post about the strange habit I have of misremembering the end...

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Sorry about the tardiness of the reply but for me Michael Hartnett's 'Sulphur' takes beating!

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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on ei...

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Brilliant synopsis Shane, brings it all back to me.

https://irishwritingblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/hay-festival-kells-michael-harding/comment-page-1/#comment-2291

I saw John Banville at an event in Foyles earlier this year, where he talked briefly about his earlier work. He said something along the lines that it was all flawed and needed to be rewritten bu...

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This is an interesting series of questions and I wonder if it isn't that Mr Banville has the opportunity to exercise his creativity in a different way with his works of crime, as I think he himse...

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Even worse, mr. Banville abandoned most of his early novels. In various interviews he said he is no longer interested in his literary legacy, refusing to answer questions e.g. about his The Revol...

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Reblogged this on Wee Bit Wordy and commented: A very interesting read! Check it out! :)

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