Description
Margaret Atwood, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney and Salman Rushdie feature in this collection of over forty interviews with award-winning authors. This is a genre-crossing collection of interviews and essays that recounts in intimate detail encounters with many of the world's foremost writers. Interspersed are photos as well as a charismatic commentary, provided by editor and veteran journalist Ciaran Carty, revealing a surprising, often unexpected interconnectedness between these otherwise distinct figures. Individually, these pieces provide a rare glimpse inside some of the world's most creative minds; collectively, they address topics such as history, politics, sexuality, and class, while also reflecting the distinguished and wide-ranging career of one of Ireland's leading critics and broadcasters. Filled with laugh-out-loud anecdotes, personal confessions, and passionate declarations, this book is the definitive collection for literature enthusiasts and aspiring writers alike.
About the Author
Since incurring the wrath of his first editor in 1960 by making Hitchcock's Psycho his film of the year, veteran cineast Ciaran Carty has consistently championed the arts, developing a career as one of Ireland's leading critics and broadcasters, as deputy editor of The Sunday Independent (1961-65) and arts editor for The Sunday Tribune (1985- 2011). Since 1988 he has edited the New Irish Writing page for the Tribune, The Irish Times and the Irish Independent, and is curator of the prestigious annual Hennessy Literary Awards. PRODUCT
Reviews
In Writer to Writer - The Republic of Elsewhere, veteran arts journalist Ciaran Carty brings great acuity to his interviews with some of the prime exponents of 20th-century literature. -- Paddy Kehoe * RTE *
Clearly positioned as a book for our times, the array of writers here gives weight to Carty's overarching idea that literature (and those who create it) exist outside borders, are (to reappropriate Theresa May's infamous phrase) "citizens of everywhere". Literature, Carty suggests, exists in a separate country: the land of the imagination, "a republic of elsewhere". -- Sean Hewitt * The Irish Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843516743
Author Ciaran Carty
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint The Lilliput Press Ltd
Publisher The Lilliput Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 1100g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 250mm
About the Author
Since incurring the wrath of his first editor in 1960 by making Hitchcock's Psycho his film of the year, veteran cineast Ciaran Carty has consistently championed the arts, developing a career as one of Ireland's leading critics and broadcasters, as deputy editor of The Sunday Independent (1961-65) and arts editor for The Sunday Tribune (1985- 2011). Since 1988 he has edited the New Irish Writing page for the Tribune, The Irish Times and the Irish Independent, and is curator of the prestigious annual Hennessy Literary Awards. PRODUCT
Reviews
In Writer to Writer - The Republic of Elsewhere, veteran arts journalist Ciaran Carty brings great acuity to his interviews with some of the prime exponents of 20th-century literature. -- Paddy Kehoe * RTE *
Clearly positioned as a book for our times, the array of writers here gives weight to Carty's overarching idea that literature (and those who create it) exist outside borders, are (to reappropriate Theresa May's infamous phrase) "citizens of everywhere". Literature, Carty suggests, exists in a separate country: the land of the imagination, "a republic of elsewhere". -- Sean Hewitt * The Irish Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843516743
Author Ciaran Carty
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint The Lilliput Press Ltd
Publisher The Lilliput Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 1100g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 250mm
