Reader, Writer. Irish, currently holed up and bunkering down in Portland, Oregon.
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Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It's the harmful debris …
Recommended to me by a rando at the Portland Book Festival last month. Picked up a copy at Rough Draft bar & bookstore in Kingston, NY this afternoon. Reading first pages in this cosy AF B&B 'cause I'm too old for nightlife when it's this cold.
In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. …
Power and counterpower in the space of silence. HumAnimal explores dehumanization as the privation of speech. Taking up the figure of silence as the space between human and animal, it traces the potential for an alternate political and ethical way of life beyond law and suggests that humAnimal, as the site of impropriety opened by racism and manifested by silence, can be political and hazardous to power.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New …
While previous versions have softened the robust and sometimes shocking qualities of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a …
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe …
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point …
Stephen King's second novel, the vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first …
What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose between …
This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on twenty years’ experience as a writer and performer, …
