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LA Times Festival Of Books

There are going to be a load of Irish authors and poets hitting LA as part of the LA Times Festival of Books! It’s part of Imagine Ireland a programme which is the brainchild of Culture Ireland and involves both Publishing Ireland (hence my involvement) and Poetry Ireland. The Irish readings and events I know of for sure, are the ones I’m helping out with:
Saturday
11.00–11.30 (Discover the World Stage)
Sara Berkeley & Peter Sirr (Poets)
12.00-12.45 (etc. stage)
Brian Dillon, Molly McCloskey & Eoin Purcell
[i’m just the gopher here, introducing the writers] (Non-Fiction)
2.45- 3.15 (Discover the World Stage)
Mary O’Donoghue & Kevin Power (Fiction)

Sunday

11.00– 11.30 (Discover the World Stage)
Thomas McCarthy & Joseph Woods (Poets)
2.45- 3.15 (Discover the World Stage)
Nuala Ní Chonchúir & Kevin Power (Fiction &Poetry)

See you there? Eoin

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Are you still in book publishing?

When you look at the niche sector you are publishing books into, does it really make sense to think about it as book publishing anymore?

More and more, I look at companies who think they are BOOK publishers and I begin to think that at best they are publishers and at worst service companies!

That’s not necessarily a bad thing, just that they haven’t acknowledged the change themselves!

Eoin

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Nasty Review For Barry

A kind of nasty review for Kevin Barry’s City Of Bohane, unattributed too which seems odd:

There are other oddities, notably a first-person narrator who makes his presence felt every so often, but so glancingly that you wonder what he’s doing there, and by the end his function, if he has one, remains unclear. Barry has a remarkable talent, as is evident from his short stories, but a novel requires particular qualities — a satisfying structure, a mastery of the long, developing narrative and complex characters of psychological and emotional depth — that aren’t essential, or sometimes even required, in the shorter form. On this showing, the author has yet to command these qualities.

(Source: independent.ie)

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