Nicole Flattery joins Danny Denton in the studio to read from and discuss Keith Ridgway's short story, 'Andy Warhol'.
Rachael Allen's forceful debut collection pushes open the cracks in the structures which govern our lives, and interrogates the very mechanisms of marginalisation.
Fiction, that work of the imagination, is a means of making sense of the world, and a way to escape the darkest of realities.
A posthumous collection of Lucia Berlin's unpublished stories constitutes a curious and exciting middle-ground between fiction and autobiography.
Melatu Uche Okorie, author of the much-heralded story collection 'This Hostel Life', joins Sally Rooney in the studio to discuss two pieces of flash fiction from our archive.
Issue 39/Volume 2
224 pages of the finest new fiction, poetry, and essays, from Irish and international authors.
Flattery can do almost anything with the sentence. She captures characters and relationships in one-liners that crackle with unerring timing and verve and terrible lucidity. — Colin Barrett
19th December 2018
26th November 2018
Fiction, that work of the imagination, is a means of making sense of the world, and a way to escape the darkest of realities.
The story of Gil Courtney shows us that, when it comes to making things up, some people really just want to believe. And who can blame them?
Colin Barrett introduces Nicole Flattery's debut collection, 'Show Them A Good Time', a book that captures characters and relationships in one-liners that crackle with unerring timing and verve and terrible lucidity.