April 2009

The Archives

  • 04.30.09
    Dylan Speaks Uncategorized | Comments Off
    ... to Bill Flanagan. Bewitching as ever. You can also download the pdf. http://www.bobdylan.com/conversation
  • 04.29.09
    Still Life of a Painter Uncategorized | (1)
    “I gotta say, when I see it hung, I’m pleased.” 24 hours before the opening of his latest exhibition, Guggi, born Derek Rowan, reclines in an office room in the Kerlin Gallery, mere yards from where the fruit of his last few years of work adorns the walls. “It’s a strange thing,” he says, “you don’t really know the exhibition you have just done until you see it hung.” Guggi looks exactly like what he is: an ex avant-garde rock musician turned painter. Lean, with shoulder length hair and lupine features, he appears significantly younger than his 50 years. His paintings eschew ...
  • 04.27.09
    The Voice of God Uncategorized | Comments Off
    ...in the form of man. Massive Attack's Live With Me, featuring Terry Collier. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSxui0uFr3g
  • 04.24.09
    The Magician and his Physician Uncategorized | Comments Off
    "In October 2008, before his death, (JG) Ballard's literary agent Margaret Hanbury brought a manuscript from Ballard with the working title Conversations with My Physician: The Meaning, if Any, of Life to the Frankfurt Book Fair. The physician in question is oncologist Professor Jonathan Waxman of Imperial College, London, who was treating Ballard for prostate cancer. While it is in part a book about cancer, and Ballard's struggle with it, it reportedly moves on to broader themes. Hanbury is in conversation with publishers."
  • 04.23.09
    The Tangled Web We Weave Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Tyrone-born author and poet Nick Laird’s second novel Glover’s Mistake might masquerade as a cosmopolitan psychodrama with one foot in the internet and the other in the art world, but don’t let that put you off. It’s really a beautifully written novel of manners every bit as politely savage as Barry Lyndon or Age Of Innocence, transposed to 21st Century London. “I was trying to do something a little bit like that,” Laird, a dark, quietly spoken 35-year-old, says over morning coffee in Brooks Hotel in Dublin. “I wanted to make it like a small chamber drama. The first book (Utterly ...
  • 04.22.09
    The View From Last Night Uncategorized | Comments Off
    ... is now online. Friar Murphy joined columnist Ann Marie Hourihane and Irish Times online editor Hugh Linehan to discuss Armando Ianucci's debut film In the Loop, Dennis Kelly's play Love and Money, Nick Laird's book Glover's Mistake and Dublin Made Me, the new CD by Liam O'Connor and Sean McKeon. Stay tuned for our recent interview with Nick Laird. http://www.rte.ie/tv/theview/
  • 04.18.09
    See Above… Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Caroline Walsh in the Irish Times
  • 04.16.09
    J the R Kerry Group Irish Fiction shortlist Uncategorized | Comments Off
    John the Revelator has been shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2009 alongside Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture, Hugo Hamilton's Disguise, Deirdre Madden’s Molly Fox’s Birthday and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland. The winner will be announced at Listowel Writers' Week at the end of May.
  • 04.12.09
    Consider the lotus Uncategorized | Comments Off
    "By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth." – Yukio Mishima
  • 04.11.09
    Wild Things… Uncategorized | Comments Off
    ... You make my heart sing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--N9klJXbjQ