In Bloom
We’re very pleased to join forces with Tramp Press, The Stinging Fly, Swan River Press and Lilliput Press for a Bloom Fringe event this Saturday, 31 May. Details:
Episode 1: Invisible City
In episode 1 of the gorse podcast, we talk to Irish short story writer and essayist Rob Doyle about his novel, Here Are the Young Men (Lilliput Press). Taking its name from a Joy Division track the novel is a visceral coming of age story depicting a darker side of Dublin. Talking to the Irish Times, Rob described his “strong urge to write about atrocity porn, if you want to call it that; growing up in a culture where you’re assaulted by images of violence.” It’s incendiary stuff, steeped in the literary nihilism of Bret Easton Ellis, JG Ballard, and, of course, Michel Houellebecq, subject of Rob’s essay for gorse no. 1.
Making the funny bits funnier
Geoff Dyer interviewed about Another Great Day At Sea, his writer-in-residence book for Visual Editions.
Krasznahorkai’s pilgrimages
Paul Kerschen in Music & Literature.