Kevin Barry literary anthology to feature Tommy Tiernan & The Rubberbandits

“A beautiful plot-boned annual anthology of the arts in Ireland, Mr. Clark!”
That’s Kevin Barry encouraging you and I to cough up €40+p&p for Winter Pages, a handsome 192-page, cloth-covered, thread-sewn hardback, hand-finished in silver and navy embossed foils. Edited by Kevin and his academic wife Olivia Smith, its numerous contributors include Lenny Abrahamson, Sara Baume, Claire Kilroy, Belinda McKeon, Paul Muldoon, Peter Murphy, Peter Rowen, Rob Doyle, The Rubberbandits, Donal Ryan, Tommy Tiernan, Michelle Horrigan, John Kelly and Emer O’Toole. Distributed in Ireland by Gill and Macmillan, it’s ideal for slipping into Christmas stockings along with a copy of his new novel, Beatlebone.
November 12 finds Kevin, Claire Kilroy and Peter Murphy in conversation with RTÉ’s Seán Rocks in Smock Alley as part of the Dublin Book Festival. Running from 6.30pm-8pm in the Main Space, tickets are a mere tenner.
The new issue of Hot Press, out on Thursday with some very familiar faces on the cover, finds Kevin Barry talking U2, Irvine Welsh, Roddy Doyle, hippy communes and, natch, Beatlebone with yours truly.
He’s also very excited about acquiring a new celebrity admirer.
“I was just told that Mr. Donald Fagen of Steely Dan is a fan,” Kev enthuses. “He’s been passing my book around and bought tickets for the reading I’m doing in a few weeks time in New York. It makes all the fucking hard work worth it!”