Reasons to Remain
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I have a new article out, my first for the Los Angeles Review of Books. It’s on the author and illustrator Mervyn Peake, one of the most important writers in my world. Peake’s final novel, Titus Alone, is widely considered a failure due to the dementia suffered by its author. Some Peake disciples, however, maintain…
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Early in my first semester as W. B. Yeats Fellow in Irish Literature at the University of Notre Dame I was invited to audit the graduate seminar Returns of the Aesthetic, taught jointly by my mentor Dr Joseph Rosenberg and Dr Yasmin Solomonescu. A generous interpretation of “auditing” transpired: rather than sitting shtum in the…
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I’m sitting in a coffee shop called The General, in South Bend, Indiana. It’s February 2024. I live up the hill, in an apartment building called The Hill, with my wife, the choreographer and dance critic Róisín O’Brien. The Hill is halfway between The University of Notre Dame, where I have an office in…
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This site needs some updates. It will get them. R2R started, long ago, as a sort-of-travel-blog, and there is some travelling coming up real soon. I’ll also probably get rid of / archive a lot of the older posts on here, so, er, get them while they’re cold. In the meantime, here are a couple…
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Reading contemporary Irish literature cover to cover I have a …a piece? A few paragraphs. A segment! In this new compilarticle* from the truly excellent folks at Contemporary Irish Literature. It’s a nice piece and well worth a read (although I’ll have to come back to Taylor Allgeier-Follett’s bit on A Ghost in the Throat because…
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I’ve got a new piece, adapted from the ‘coda’ that concluded my PhD, published in Alluvium which is a journal I’ve long admired. It’s a very wee academic article so if you’d like to see the sort of thing I spent, oh, several years of my life furrowing my brow about, give it a look.…
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