Category Archives: Work

Alen MacWeeney, Photographer

Posted on February 2, 2012

  I’m reposting this Irish Times piece from 2007 because this evening, at NYU Glucksman Ireland House, I’ll have the pleasure of giving an introductory talk on Alen MacWeeney before he gives a multimedia presentation on his portraits of the … Continue reading →

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Life in the Grid

Posted on January 7, 2012

First Published: The Irish Times, January 7, 2012 Apparently the grid system makes it impossible to get lost in a city. You find your avenue, you find your cross-street, and you find the doorman you need to nod to, or … Continue reading →

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FROM NOW ON: A short story for Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2011

First Published: The Irish Times, December 24, 2011 ON CHRISTMAS EVE, Claire walks, unannounced, into her mother’s kitchen and on her mother’s face she thinks she sees three different things: shock at Claire’s arrival, concern for the state of Claire’s … Continue reading →

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DROPPING SLOW, a new short form piece for radio

Posted on December 5, 2011

DROPPING SLOW was commissioned by RTÉ Radio 1′s Drama On One and first broadcast on December 4th, 2011. It features actors Michael Harding and Marion O’Dwyer, and is centred around Maeve, a woman who has moved to live in one … Continue reading →

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Building Ireland from A Brooklyn Kitchen

Posted on August 4, 2011

First Published: The Irish Times, August 4, 2011 For much of the period between 2006 and 2008, I was nowhere near Ireland. For much of that time, I was sitting at my kitchen table in Brooklyn, with a far-off view … Continue reading →

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Steve Reich at 75

Posted on July 21, 2011

First Published: The Irish Times, July 16, 2011 ‘I’M ON THE five-year plan now,” says Steve Reich, with a grin. He’s talking about what happens when you’re an icon of contemporary culture and you happen to have a big birthday: … Continue reading →

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Off the Scale: Corban Walker, Artist

Posted on July 1, 2011

First Published in the Irish Times, May 28, 2011 CORBAN WALKER is used to the stares. He gets them every day, and he gets them everywhere he goes, because people do not expect a man to look as Walker does. … Continue reading →

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Blindly Towards a Home: Nicole Krauss, novelist

Posted on February 21, 2011

First Published: The Irish Times, February 19, 2011 SHE IS a novelist who has, from the beginning of her career, been preoccupied by the notion of memory; the tricks it can play, the fixations it can breed, the way it … Continue reading →

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Stranger than Fiction: Gary Shteyngart, Novelist

Posted on October 22, 2010

First Published: The Irish Times, Saturday, Oct 16, 2010 ‘LOOK,” GASPS GARY Shteyngart. “A guy just walked in with a book!” Shteyngart stares. The book-toter stares back. Around us, everyone else stares into their touchscreens. The thing about Shteyngart’s Gramercy … Continue reading →

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I Would Tell You This: Robin Black, Writer

Posted on September 11, 2010

A version of this article appeared in The Irish Times, September 11, 2010 “AT SOME POINT,” says Robin Black, “I realised that I’d never written a love story in which both people are alive.” Which presents two possibilities: one, that … Continue reading →

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