Interviewed by Katharine Gilbert 1. Congratulations! Your book Telling Stories is out now and available on Amazon. Can you tell us how you feel about completing your book? And what’s next? Mixed emotions—probably relief that it is over maybe a… Continue Reading
Small Things Like TheseBy Claire KeeganGrove Press, New York2021 By Sabina Clarke Bill Furlong, the father of five girls, is a respected coal and timber merchant who sometimes reminds himself that he came from nothing. When his teenage Catholic mother… Continue Reading
FosterBy Claire KeeganFaber & Faber LimitedBloomsbury HouseLondon, England2010 By Sabina Clarke This powerful novella set in rural Ireland by Irish writer Claire Keegan is narrated through the eyes of a young girl whose name we’re never told. She is being… Continue Reading
By Maurice Fitzpatrick Many people associate the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses a hundred years ago with an iconic picture of the author when it was published in Paris in 1922. Joyce’s glaucoma required multiple surgeries and, in the photograph,… Continue Reading
The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton…An Investigation By Hugh Turley and David Martin McCabe Publishing Hyattsville, Maryland 2018 By Sabina Clarke The most intriguing and suspicious character in the mystery surrounding the death of Thomas Merton in 1968, at the International… Continue Reading
Compiled and Edited by Sabina Clarke I dabbled in poetry from the age of 15 when at 19 I came across a Federico Garcia Lorca poem ‘The Weeping’ translated by Kenneth Rexroth. It was unlike anything I had ever read.… Continue Reading
GirlBy Edna O’BrienFarrar, Strauss and GirouxNew York2019$26.00 Reviewed by Sabina Clarke In a dazzling display of ferocity, genius and a triumph of imagination Edna O’Brien tackles a difficult tale telling the story of the 276 Nigerian school girls kidnapped by… Continue Reading
Image caption (above): Red Stag at Killarney House and Gardens, photo taken by Conservation Ranger Peter O’Toole of Killarney National Park in County Kerry, Ireland By Kelly McShain Tyree Giddiness descended as the furtive text alerts started pouring in from… Continue Reading
By Sabina Clarke Recently I met with Patrick Radden Keefe the amazingly gifted author, investigative journalist and staff writer for The New Yorker since 2012 and contributor since 2006. His latest book Say Nothing out now and getting rave reviews… Continue Reading
Photo (above): William L. Elkins built Elstowe Mansion in 1898. His neighbors along the Old York Road included Gilded Age millionaires: John B. Stetson, John Wanamaker, Jay Cooke and Peter A. B. Widener. In 1932, the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine… Continue Reading