Notable Online: 6/21–6/27
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: roddy doyle
Rock & Home
Can domestic life and rock & roll flourish together in contemporary novels? Should they?
...moreSend A Letter Commemorating Irish Letters
What a cool way to celebrate Ireland’s storytelling tradition: a new Irish stamp features the text of an entire short-short by 17-year-old Dubliner Eoin Moore. Moore’s piece, about how “[t]he city embodies the people, and the people embody the city,” won out over “a host” of other entries at Roddy Doyle’s Fighting Words Centre. Take […]
...morePoetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
It’s Saturday night and it’s poetry time. Who else is excited? I always figured the Irish got excited about poetry. Roddy Doyle says otherwise. I’m late to the game in discovering the Poetry Foundation’s podcasts, but I’m having some fun listening to them. I liked Ron Silliman’s discussion of writing a poem with an eraser, […]
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