Jonathan Franzen
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How Mayo writer Sally Rooney became a literary phenomenon in the UK
- Books
- January 9, 2019, 09:52
A good measure of a book’s success is: are booksellers tired of being asked if they have it in stock? In one south London bookshop, the owner has put (...)

Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie review: A truly convincing female voice
- Books
- July 28, 2018, 06:00
Okay. We’ll give them Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina, Isabel Archer and Molly Bloom. And maybe some others down through the centuries. But the female voic(...)

The Floating World review: Shelter from the storm
- Books
- December 2, 2017, 06:00
After a summer that saw parts of the the United States battered by multiple hurricanes, there is a timeliness to Morgan C Babst’s debut The Floating W(...)

Joshua Cohen: 'I am a partisan of the parochial'
- Books
- November 4, 2017, 05:00
Listening to Joshua Cohen, you quickly begin to see how the 37-year-old has managed to publish half a dozen novels and a few collections of stories – (...)

The Leavers review: A riveting tale of immigrants in New York
- Books
- September 30, 2017, 06:00
“I want you to know that you were wanted. I decided: I wanted you.” At the heart of Lisa Ko’s stunning debut novel The Leavers is a mother-son r(...)

Booby-trapped breakfasts are a rotten way to choose staff
- Work
- February 29, 2016, 01:00
When Walt Bettinger, chief executive of Charles Schwab, is thinking about hiring someone, he invites them out to breakfast. He arrives early, takes th(...)

International Dublin Literary Award longlist announced
- Irish News
- November 9, 2015, 11:20
Readers and book stores everywhere will be excited by the 160-title strong announcement of the 2016 long list for the Dublin International Literary(...)

‘I waited with trepidation to see how my country would classify my wife and I’
- Generation Emigration
- May 25, 2015, 15:00
I never thought the day would come when Ireland would embrace me as a whole person. When the part of me that I was most ashamed of would be celebra(...)

The writing ritual: from blank page to Booker contender
- Books
- May 23, 2015, 08:00
I write in a tiny crawl space in my one-bedroom cottage every morning from 4.30am to 6.30am. At that time nobody can disturb me – not my husband or(...)

10 summer releases to watch out for
- Books
- May 8, 2015, 09:35
Things We Have in Common, Tasha Kavanagh (May, Canongate) Yasmin Laksaris is the obese teenage narrator of the English author Tasha Kavanagh’s (...)