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I didn’t much like Jonathan Franzen’s essay “Farther Away” when I read it a year ago in the New Yorker. A complicated mishmash of a piece, it seeks to juxtapose the author’s visit to the South Pacific island of Masafuera, renamed in the 1960s “for Alexan Full Article at PopMatters
THE Bealtaine Film Tour will be screening An American in Paris, My House in Umbria, and Last Chance Harvey in venues around Ireland throughout the month of May.The three films selected for the Bealtaine Film Tour this year are diverse in genre and were d Full Article at Drogheda Independent
All fiction writers suffer from the condition of having nothing new to say, but story writers are the ones most abjectly prone to this condition. There is, again, no hiding. The craftiest old dogs, like Munro and William Trevor, don't even try.
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“Amongst Women is a complex and ambitious novel, threading Irish history, landscapes and characters with universalised concerns and experiences.” Compare and contrast the importance of setting within John McGahern’s Amongst Women and William Tre Full Article at OpPapers.com
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I'm easily swayed by others into picking up a new book, or in this case a short story or two, that I've been meaning to read. I really love reading short stories, and I'm not sure why I don't read them more often. Usually it's just a case of being spoilt Full Article at A Work in Progress
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William Trevor, KBE (born May 24, 1928) is an Irish short story writer, novelist and playwright. Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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