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‘A radio station blares such shitty muzak that I double-check to make sure this is, in fact, the man who was my father back in Dublin.’
It is not irrelevant that this, Guyotat’s parting statement to the world, is related in such lucid terms: he wanted to be loud and clear, to smash the window, to wake the sleeper up. It is not irrelevant that Guyotat writes, in this book, at the age of 78: ‘Life, as repetition, isn’t worth it; only the first time counts.’
‘How to hang onto the positive solutions to the crisis in the Amazon when Dom had been murdered seeking them? Or the fact that charges against various suspects in his murder have been dropped? And that the investigation into the wider criminal network within which the illegal fishermen who confessed to the killings operated seems to have stalled?’
We’re inviting visual artists living on the island of Ireland to submit work to be considered for future covers of our magazine.
Image by Abdul Bacet ‘This operation is important to us. Very important. Even more important than lessons, homework, or solving riddles. We can’t mess this up, because Ziwar’s fate is at stake.’
‘A radio station blares such shitty muzak that I double-check to make sure this is, in fact, the man who was my father back in Dublin.’
Image by Abdul Bacet ‘This operation is important to us. Very important. Even more important than lessons, homework, or solving riddles. We can’t mess this up, because Ziwar’s fate is at stake.’
‘I could have no quarrel with the original jury’s verdict, or so Farrington told me anyway. Agent McNally was as dead as dead could be, and by my hand.’
‘On another night she might join the card game, but she didn’t have it in her to be sociable this evening, to be the carefree Irish girlfriend who loved a party, who smiled at their stories from home as if she recognised the places and people alternately lauded and reviled within.’
‘He still looks like a normal human in front of her, albeit with a well-fitted coat, suited to his frame, to his needs. What does he do in summer, she wonders, what does he do in changing rooms? What does he do in bed? What if he rolls over and kills it?’
‘If you’re going to be a novelist, you write something that is recognisably a novel and that means accepting at least some and probably most of the rules of novels, which include some form of plot and setting because there is nothing without time and space, and some form of narrative because that’s how it is, that’s why readers and writers turn up.’
June Caldwell
The Stinging Fly Podcast
Ella Gaynor
The Stinging Fly Podcast
Simon Costello & Jane Robinson
The Stinging Fly Podcast
13th April 2026
3rd April 2026
‘A radio station blares such shitty muzak that I double-check to make sure this is, in fact, the man who was my father back in Dublin.’
‘How to hang onto the positive solutions to the crisis in the Amazon when Dom had been murdered seeking them? Or the fact that charges against various suspects in his murder have been dropped? And that the investigation into the wider criminal network within which the illegal fishermen who confessed to the killings operated seems to have stalled?’
Image by Abdul Bacet ‘This operation is important to us. Very important. Even more important than lessons, homework, or solving riddles. We can’t mess this up, because Ziwar’s fate is at stake.’