Peter Murphy’s first novel, John the Revelator, will be published by Faber & Faber in February 2009, and by Harcourt in the US in August. Murphy is a contributing editor with Dublin’s Hot Press magazine, and he’s contributed articles to Rolling Stone, Music Week, and other publications.

He’s also written liner notes for We Will Bury You: A Tribute to Killdozer (2006) and the forthcoming remastered edition of the Anthology of American Folk Music. Murphy’s comments on music, literature, culture, and the arts are regularly featured on RTE Television’s arts program, The View, and Phantom Radio’s arts and culture program, The Kiosk, in Dublin.